other countries. It will not therefore be without its use and interest, if I add briefly a few evidences of the unbroken tradition of England as to the infallibility of the Roman Pontiff. It would be out of place in this Pastoral to do more than offer to you a few passages; but I would wish to stir up some one, who has time for such research, to collect and publish a complete catena of evidence from the writers before and since the Reformation; which will show that the Gallicanism, or worse than Gallicanism, of Cisalpine Clubs and Political Emancipationists was no more than the momentary aberration of a few minds under the stress of penal laws. They are abnormal instances in the noble fidelity of the Catholics of England.
As to the Bishops and Doctors of the English Church before the Reformation, I may first remind you of the words of St. Anselm, St. Thomas of Canterbury, and Bradwardine, three primates of England, given in the Pastoral of last year. To these may be added St. Ælred of Rivaulx,[1] John of Salisbury,[2] Robert Pullen,[3] Thomas of Evesham,[4] Robert Grosteste,[5] Roger Bacon,[6] Scotus,[7] Bachon,[8] Holcot,[9] Richard Ralph,[10] and Waldensis.[11] In these writers the Primacy of the Pontiff, and the obligation, under
- ↑ Bibl. Max. Patrum, tom. xxiii. pp. 57, 58. Ed. Lugd. 1677.
- ↑ Polycrates, lib. vi. c. 24, p. 61. Ed. Giles.
- ↑ In Sentent. b. viii. c. iii.
- ↑ In Vita Sti. Egwini, sect. vi.
- ↑ Epp. 72 and 127.
- ↑ Opus. c. xiv.
- ↑ In Sent. iv. dist. vi. 9, 8.
- ↑ Proleg. in Lib. iv. Sentent.
- ↑ In Lib. iv. Sentent.
- ↑ Summa in quæstionibus Armenorum, lib. vii. c. 5.
- ↑ Doctrina Fidei, lib. ii. capp. 47, 48.
