NEW YORK:
D. & J. SADLIER, 31 BARCLAY STREET.
MONTREAL: COR. OF NOTRE DAME AND, FRANCIS XAVIER STS.

1871,
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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The World and the Council.

External history of the Council, 8; The alleged indifference

to the Council, 19; Internal history, 30; Protest of the Cardinal

Presidents, 39 ; Definition by acclamation, 42 ; Definitions

binding on all the faithful, 45.

CHAPTER II.

The Two Constitutions.

Analysis of the Constitution De Fide Catholica, 49; Pre-

paration for the definition of the Infallibility of the Roman

Pontiff, 57; Analysis of the First Constitution on the Church

of Christ, 60 ; Six points of the definition of Infallibility, 63.

I. Meaning of the phrase loqui ex cathedra, 64.

II. Faith and morals the object of Infallibility, 65; Five

points of the Charter of the Church: 1. The perpetuity and

universality of the mission of the Church as a teacher of man-

kind. 2. The Deposit of the Divine Faith and Law entrusted to

the Church. 3. The Church the sole interpreter of the Faith

and of the 4. The Church the sole Divine Judge over the

reason and will of man. 5. The Perpetual Presence of our

Lord with the Church, 65. The doctrinal authority of the

Church not confined to matters of revelation, 73 ; Truths of

Science, 74 ; Truths of History, 74; Dogmatic Facts, 75, 76;

Minor censures, 79.