Declarations and Letters on the Vatican Decrees, 1869-1887 (Classic Reprint)

I. considerations for the jushops of the council respecting the question of papal infallibility. (October 1809.') I. In past centuries, in opposition to projected innovations, the Catholic Church has always laid the greatest stress on the age and unchangeableness of her doctrines of faith. She has regarded it as a sacred duty, and, at the same time, as a high prerogative, that within her pale that only is taught and professed which has been believed everywhere, always, and of all men. Whenever it can be proved of a doctrine that it did not exist for several ccn- 1 Published by Manz of Munich without the author's name. In a letter of November 25th, 1869, Dollinger says: "You will have received the pamphlet, ' Considerations,' etc. The sentences arc for the most part set down as naked assertions. From Paris and elsewhere my attention has been called lo the fact, that documentary evidence and historical criticism of what is here asserted so laconically, are indispensable. I am n

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CONTENTS; -0-; HACft; I Considerations for the Bishops of the Council respecting; the Question of Papal Infallibility, October l86o, r II A few "Words on the Address presented to the Pope by certain Members of the Vatican Council urging him to declare his own Infallibility, Jan 19th, 1S70, 33; III, The new Order of Business in the Council, and its Theological Significance, March 9th, 1S70, 46; IV Archbishop Gregory von Scherr of Munich-Freising to the Faculty of Theology in Munich, Oct 20th, 1S70, 65 V Archbishop von Scherr to Dollinger, Jan, 4th, 1S71, 7° VI Dollinger to Archbishop von Scherr, Jan 29th, 1S71, 74 VII, Archbishop von Scherr to Dollinger, Feb 14th, 1871, "8 VIIt Dollinger to Archbishop von Scherr, March 14th, 1S71, 79 IX Archbishop voo Scherr to Dollinger, March 17th, 1871, Sr X Dollinger to Archbishop von Scherr, March 2Sth, 1871, 82 XI Archbishop von Schorr's Pastoral Letter, Palm Sunday,; 1871, 105; XI