The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-05-26
ROME.
The Dogma Of Faith.

tuition of Catholic Faith. published ia til
third public meeting OF the great tilcu
menicaI Council Of the Vatican. held Ii
st. Peters on the 24th Of April as re
vised from the Schema de F9de dlstrlbu
ted among the Fathers Of the Council OF
the 7th OF March,:
l. Of GOD, tie Creator Of all t.sngs
| |. If any one shall deny the one true
God, Creator of all things visible and IN
visible, anathend sat tet him be accused.
2 If any one shall presume to atfirnl
that nothing exists except matter, osa-
| tisem0 SIT
3. ii any one shall say that the sub
| stance or essence Of God and Of ali things
is one and the sa me, 0nathenta sat.
/ 4. If any one shall say that finite
| things, as well corporal as spiritual, or
at least spiritual things, have e;nanated
from the Divine Substance or that the
| Divine Essence has made all things by
| the manifestation or evolution OF Itset
| within limits Use sc aeterniaaado) coGeti-
| tutes the totally OF created things, dis
tingaished as to kind, species, and indi-
| viduals, Gaotheasa SIT.
5. Ii any one shall not confess that the
world and all created things which are
contained therein, both spiritual and ma
teral, according 10 their entire substance
have been produced by the Deity out OF
| nothing; or that God did not create by a
free viii from all necessity, but created as
necessarily as lie OF necessity loves iiIm
self; or shall deny that the world has
been brought into existence Tor the glory
OF God, Gi3ntae3aa SIT.
A-0f i:erelatton.
|. If any one shall say that the one
true God, oar Creator and Lord, cannot
he certainly known through the things
that are made, and by the natural ligh
Of human reason, Gauthe1sa Stt.
2 Ii any one shall say that it cannot
DC Effected. or Is not e8petiient that Ran
should be instructed by divine revelation.
concerning God and the worship to he
rendered to Him, GauthenG SIT.
3. II any one shalt say that man cannot
be raiset. b. the divine power TO the
knowledge and perfection that are prefer
natural. but may and ought to attain Il
uaily TO the possession Of all truth and
goodness by perpetual progress. Gst0t|te-
ma SIT
4. If any one shall not receive as sacred
and ctn0nIcal the entire books OF Holy
Scripture, with all their parts, as the sa-
cred Council OF Trent defined and emu
merated them, or shall deny that these
books are divieely inspired, anathcma
SIT.
UL-0f Faith.
/. IF any one shall say that human
reason is SO independent that faith cannot
be commanded aud -exacted from 1t by
God, oHafhenta ST.
, IF any one shall say that divine
q, no NO +i,oF,,
natural knowledge Of God and Of moral
objects, aad that IL is not, therefore, re-
auiale for divine faith that revealed
truth should be believed on account Of
the authority of tod, who Hiself reveals,
aaotAea5o SIT.
3. If any one shall say that divine
revelation cannot he recommended to
belief By external signs, ana that c0nse-
solely by the internal experience or pri-
yate respiration OF each individual, ana
theH3G II.
cles eau be wrought. 2nl that consequent
Is Gil narratives OF such things, even il
in Holy Scripture, are 10 he
ciassed as fables or myths, or that nara
cles can never be recognized with GER
Gainty, ao.d that the divine origin OF thc
Christian religion cannot be satisfactory
proved 5y them, aaathenG SIT.
) Ii any uue shall say that the assent
Of Christian faith Is aot free, bat Is nee
es-arily caused by the Arguments ct hG
man reason, or that the glaoa OF Tod
is necessary for the living faith which
WORKS through love (qR4e per cdar5satsns
Opefdtar) alone, Gaatben.U sat.
.. Il any one shall say that he c0ndi- |
ton Of the faithful Is the same, and
equivalent to the conditian of those VINO
have not yet attained to the 0aiy jrile
faith, and that Catholics may, therefore. |
be justified il calling into doubt ami su5
pecdIng their assent 10 that faith winch /
they have already received under the
government Of the chafct, until such |
time as they can accomplish scientific |
demonstration of the oiedlb:,jty auJ unity |
OF their faith, dliuttes.sa SIT.
TO F5titb ard Reason.
/. If anyone shall say that no true |
properly SO called, are con !
tanned in Divine revelation, but that ak /
the dpgnas CT faith may be understood /
and demonstrated hy a properly cultIya |
ted Intelligence and ded0ged from natur- |
al principles, GRgthcH5u st.
>. II anyone shall say that human |
sciences are 10 be studied and pursued !
with such license that the assertions |
founded on them are TO be held As truth, |
even il in contradiction 20 revealed doe |
trine, and that they cannot be prescribed |
by Che Church, dHuiheH,G SIT.
3. IF anyone shall say that it may be |
awful at any tiule to attribute 20 the !
dograas propounaed by the Church d
sense different from that III which the |
Church interprets aud has ever under
stood them, in order to briug them into !
accordance with the progress o. science,
dHHjHend SIT.
(to!iows upon this form Of ratiica- |
ton in the name OF the Ponlitf, urging |
all the faithful to maintain these doe
tines, and especially those whose task |
Is that OF teachers, superiors, &C., 10
cooperate herein by cUntemnine ana |
SURPRISING the errors condemned il
these eighteen canoAa; the abstract priu
cipies condensed as far a. possible ci
the four preceding chapters, which were
read aloud previously, and ia which these
errors are more fully dweit on and point
cd cut to the mja4s Of the faithful.
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