from working any detriment to that ordinary and brothers. Then am I truly honoured, when due honour of those who maintain that it is lawful to impede this which no one can deviate without loss of faith and of immediate power of episcopal jurisdiction, by which by holding fast with the Roman Pontiff unity, both of tion. Whence we condemn and reprobate the opinions Great : My honour is the honour of the universal may be taught and ruled by him in the way of salva- PAPAL AND EPISCOPAL JURISDICTION 71 Church. My honour is the enduring strength of my communion and of profession of the same faith, the shepherd. This is the teaching of Catholic truth, from to them, that this very power is insisted upon, strength- is not denied to each and every one. salvation. bishops, who have been placed by the Holy Spirit the pastors and flocks of the whole Church, that they to succeed to the place of the Apostles, as true exercise of his office, the right of free communion with Moreover, to this supreme power of the Roman Pon- ened and vindicated by the supreme and universal Pastor; according to the words of St. Gregory the shepherds feed and rule the flocks severally committed But so far is this power of the Supreme Pontiff Church of Christ may be one flock under one supreme tiff of governing the universal Church, is attached, in the