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PROP. XI. It is no article of Catholic Faith, that the Church cannot err, either in matters of fact not relating to faith, or in matters of discipline, things alterable by the circumstances of time and place ; or in matters of speculation or civil policy , depending on mere human judgment or testimony. These things are no revelations deposited in the Church, in regard of which alone, she has the promised assistance of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Primacy of St. Peter and his Successors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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PROP. XII. Catholics believe, that peculiar and superior powers were given to St. Peter ; and that the Bishop of Rome, as his Successor, is the Head of the whole Catholic Church; in which sense, as already stated, this Church may therefore fitly be styled Roman Catholic; being a universal body united under one visible head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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PROP. XIII. The Bishops of Rome have ever been acknowledged, from the earliest ages of Christianity, as the Supreme Rulers on Earth of the whole Church of Christ; and have exercised an acknowledged Primacy of Spiritual Jurisdiction , as of Divine Right, over all other particular Christian Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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PROP XIV . It is no article of Catholic Faith to believe that the Pope is in himself infallible, separated from the Church even in expounding the Faith : by consequence, Papal definitions or decrees, in whatever form pronounced, taken exclusively from a General Council or acceptance of the Church, oblige none, under pain of heresy, to an interior assent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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PROP. xv . Nor do Catholics, as Catholics, believe, that the Pope has any direct, or indirect authority over the temporal concerns of states or the jurisdiction of Princes. Hence should the Pope pretend to absolve or to dispense with his Majesty's subjects from their allegiance, on account of heresy or schism, such dispensation they would view as frivolous and null . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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