But Ballerini has declared that whatsoever is ascribed to the Roman See, Cathedra, or Church is to be ascribed to the person of the Roman Pontiff only. Therefore this infallibility and coercive power are to be ascribed to him, and are personal.
Here we have the infallibility personal, independent, and absolute, fully and explicitly taught by two chief theologians of great repute.
But hitherto we have not met the word separate, though in truth the word sole, or alone, is equivalent.
I will therefore add certain quotations from the great Dominican School.
Bzovius, the continuator of the Annals of Baronius, says, 'To Peter alone, and after him to all the Roman Pontiffs legitimately succeeding, the privilege of infallibility, as it is called, was conceded by the Prince of Pastors, Christ who is God.'[1]
Dominicus Marchese writes: 'This privilege was conceded to the successors of Peter alone without the assistance of the College of Cardinals;' and again, 'To the Roman Pontiff alone, in the person of Peter, was committed the care of the Universal Church, and firmness, and certainty in defining matters of faith.'[2]
- ↑ 'Soli Petro et post eum omnibus Romanis Pontificibus legitime sedentibus, infallibilitatis quod vocant privilegium, a Principe pastorum Christo Deo concessum, ut in rebus fidei, morum doctrina, et universalis Ecclesiæ administratione certissima nullaque fallaciæ nota inumbrata decreta veritatis ipsius radio scribant edicant et sanciant.'—Bzovius de Pontifice Romano, cap. xiv. p. 106; apud Rocaberti, Biblioth. Pontif. tom. i. Rome, 1698.
- ↑ 'Soli Petro secluso ab Apostolis ac proinde soli euis successori
lute necessaria est, ac proinde infallibilatis prærogativa absoluta illi est tribuenda, et vis coactiva ad fidei unitatem pariter absoluta: sicuti absoluta est item infallibilitas et vis coactiva ipsius Ecclesiæ Catholicæ, quæ Romanæ fidei adhærere oportet. Appendix De infall. Pont. Prop. vii.
