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