THE POPE AND THE CHURCH CONSIDERED IN THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO THE Errors of the High Church Party in England. BY THE REV. PAUL BOTTALLA, S.J., Professor of Theology in St. Beuno's College, N. Wales. BURNS, OATES, AND Co., 17, PORTMAN STREET. MDCCCLXVIII. PREFACE. THE present work has been ready for some time past, although its publication has been unavoidably delayed. On the appearance of Dr. Puscy's Eirenicon, the writer formed the intention of giving a condensed account of the whole controversy between Catholics and the Tractarian School. Further consideration, however, convinced him that it would be better to confine himself to the two fundamental points of the entire controversy, for by these, and by these alone, can it be decided, and these once settled, all minor difficulties will speedily vanish. Hence the subject of this treatise is the Authority and Infallibility of the Pope and Church; two crucial topics, misunderstood alike, if not equally, in every form of religion external to Catholicism; the former being concerned with the constitution of the Church itself, the latter having reference to its claims as a teacher. Now, though the High Church party, as they are called, most nearly approximate to that Church which alone is Catholic, they too share in the common error of Pro |