safed to link with the supreme pastoral office. of God our Saviour, the exaltation of the Catholic from the beginning of the Christian faith, for the glory religion, and the salvation of Christian peoples, We, efficacy of the Apostolic office is so urgently needed, sider it in every way necessary to affirm solemnly the from the consent of the Church, irreformable. [Chap. 4.] tradition of the Fathers, taught, in sacred Councils, and DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY 77 Spirit, has, from the sacred writings and the ancient concerning faith and morals ; and hence, that such defini- define that it is a dogma divinely revealed : that the say, when, in exercise of the office of Pastor and Teacher Whence, faithfully cleaving to the tradition received infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed tions of the Roman Pontiff are of themselves, and not authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or with the approval of the Sacred Council, teach and that his Church should possess in defining doctrine morals to be held by the whole Church, by the divine of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme Apostolic Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is to assistance promised him in blessed Peter, he has that not a few are found who belittle its authority, we con- Whereas the Catholic Church, instructed by the Holy prerogative which the only-begotten Son of God vouch- PURGATORY