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

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