The authority of doctrinal decisions which are not definitions of faith
Subtitle: considered in a short series of essays reprinted from "The Dublin review."
Publisher: Burns, Lambert, and Oates
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Popes -- Infallibility.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: ESSAY I.; title: On Theological Errors beloio that of Heresy,; title: Our argument purports to prove that Gallicans, no less than Ultramontanes, should regard the Munich Brief as infallible Page 1; title: Many doctrines are taught by the Church de fide, which have not been defined 2; title: They may be taught "expressly" or "practically" 3; title: Yet definitions are in various ways a vast benefit 4; title: The Church could not faithfully preserve the Deposit, if she had not the gift of infallibility in condemning theological errors below that of heresy 6; title: The Munich Brief is occupied in infallibly condemning such errors 9; title: Distinction between the errors which it condemns and those of Frohschammer 13; title: The enormous number of truths, belonging in one sense to secular science, but which are subject to the Church's infallible determination, as being indirectly connected with dogma 13; title: The true attitude towards the Church, in which theological investigations should be pursued 16; title: And investigations of secular science, throughout the large portions in which it comes into contact with theology 20; title: Calamitous tendency in this age to separate thought and action from subjection to the Church 21; title: This rebellious tendency far more dangerous in philosophy than even in politics Page 23; title: Fatal results which follow, from pursuing secular science on the principle of disregard to ecclesiastical decisions 24; title: Authority of theologians for the Church's infallibility in pronouncing censures below that of heresy 28; title: ESSAY II.; title: The Pope's Declaration on his Civil Princedom.; title: The Pope's declaration and its meaning 31; title: It was put forth by him as Universal Teacher 32; title: And accepted by the Episcopate 32; title: Answer to the objection, that the Church's infallibility extends only over the Apostolic Depositum 33; title: ESSAY III.; title: Infallibility Claimed for the Encyclical "Mirari vos" Preliminary explanation 35; title: Very large number of truths indirectly doctrinal 38; title: Various methods by which the Holy Father expresses minor censures 40; title: Authority of theologians for the Church's infallibility in these censures, 41; title: Our proposition stated 42; title: Two reasons given for it 43; title: The bearing of the argument, adduced by us from the case of Lamennais 44; title: Corroboration from the language and conduct of Popes 46; title: Third reason for our proposition : viz., the intolerable tyranny which its denial would impute to the Church 48; title: Explanation and limits of our proposition Page 50; title: Important answer to an objection 52; title: The "Mirari vos" purported to be an infallible condemnation of Lamennais's errors 54; title: Lamennais asked for an infallible decision 54; title: The French bishops asked for an infallible decision 55; title: The Pope avowedly acceded to this double request 56; title: The Pope declared expressly that he had issued the Encyclical, as successor to S. Peter's infallibility, and as Universal Teacher 57; title: The Pope required Lamennais to hold "firmly and solidly" the doctrine therein declared 58; title: The Pope characterized the Encyclical, as a "response of Peter's infallible mouth" and claimed for it "an unreserved and unequivocal adhesion" 60; title: The Encyclical was notoriously adopted by the Episcopate 61; title: Inappreciable importance of the question at this time 62; title: ESSAY IV.; title: Infallibility Claimed for the Recent Encyclical and Syllabus; title: Fertility of Pius IX.'s reign in important doctrinal pronouncements 64; title: Definition of the Immaculate Conception 64; title: Immense variety of his minor infallible determinations 65; title: Comparison between the "Mirari vos" and the "Quanta cura" 66; title: Since the "Mirari vos" was undoubtedly infallible, so also the "Quanta cura" 68; title: And the "Quanta cura" itself furnishes many signal confirmations of the argument contained in our former Essay 70; title: Pius IX. expressly declares in it the Pope's infallibility, on matters which concern the Church's general good, her rights and her discipline 70; title: He declares himself to issue it as Universal Teacher Page 73; title: He declares himself to have issued all the declarations, cited in the Syllabus, as Universal Teacher 74; title: These include several (such as the Munich Brief) which were formally addressed to individual bishops 75; title: Various dogmatic facts on which the Syllabus pronounces 76; title: Testimony of the French bishops to the infallible authority of the Encyclical and Syllabus 76; title: Pastoral address of the Cardinal Vicar of Borne 77; title: Cardinal Antonelli's circular 78; title: Mgr. de Segur 79; title: ESSAY V.; title: The Church Infallible in her Magisterium.; title: Perrone declares the Church infellible, not only as "testis," but also as "judex" and "magistra" 81; title: The infallibility of her magisterium attested by the sensus fidelium 82; title: The infallibility of her magisterium includes the infallibility of all her explicit instructions 84; title: Detailed testimony of French bishops to the infallibility of the; title: Encyclical and Syllabus 85; title: Testimony of our own Bishop of Shrewsbury 92; title: The French bishops declare themselves to have abandoned Gallicanism 93; title: Hardly any doctrine, which is not of faith, is more absolutely certain than the Pope's infallibility in his magisterium 94; title: God teaches the Holy See, and the Holy See teaches the Church 96; title: Various doctrines and usages taught magisterially by the Church, and unknown to Protestants, which most powerfully influence the interior character 97; title: Inference from this fact in regard to Catholic instincts and the extreme danger of intimacy with Protestants 103; title: ESSAY VI.; title: Dr. Murray's Testimony. 110; title: ESSAY VII.; title: Doctrinal Decrees of a Pontifical Congregation.; title: Objection urged by unsound Catholics against the issue of doctrinal decrees by a Pontifical Congregation Page 113; title: They pass over the really critical question ; viz., the infallibility of doctrinal decrees issued directly by the Pope, which are not definitions of faith 116; title: No one ascribes infallibility to the doctrinal decrees of a Pontifical Congregation, as such 118; title: Yet they cannot be considered purely disciplinary 119; title: Digression on the question, how it can be known that a declaration is ex cathedra, which is formally addressed by the Pope to an individual bishop 121; title: Pope Zachary's letter to S. Boniface was not ex cathedra 125; title: Suggestion as to the true answer 127; title: It is extremely probable that decrees of a Pontifical Congregation, when the Pope expressly orders their promulgation, are to be considered his teaching ex cathedra 128; title: It is absolutely certain, that if he does not expressly order their promulgation, they are not his teaching ex cathedra 131; title: Yet a certain interior assent is due to them for three reasons 132; title: ESSAY VIII.; title: The Case of Galileo.; title: Theological principles tending to establish, that Galileo's condemnability was the legitimate theological conclusion in 1616 Page 140; title: Scientific statements tending to the same result 145; title: Copernicus never advocated his hypothesis as true 152; title: Nor did Galileo himself 154; title: Response of the Inquisition qualifiers 155; title: Disciplinary decree of the Inquisition 156; title: Disciplinary decree of the Index 156; title: Doctrinal decree of the Index sanctioned by Paul V. 157; title: He did not, however, sanction it as Universal Teacher, nor was understood as doing so by contemporary Catholics 159; title: It does not seem that Galileo was prepared confidently to believe in his own theory, until he could obtain the Church's approval 162; title: Sentence of the Inquisition in 1633 164; title: Galileo's abjuration 168; title: Progress in the evidence for Copemicanism after Galileo's death, until Benedict XIV. suspended the Index's disciplinary decree 171; title: Effect on a scientific Catholic of the said decree during this intervening period 173; title: Effects on him of the doctrinal decree during this period 174; title: Protestation of Newton's Catholic editors in 1741 175; title: Effect on a theologian of the two decrees during this period 176; title: Vast benefit of the disciplinary decree 177; title: Yet it might, perhaps, with advantage have been suspended somewhat sooner 177; title: Did the Church's acts of 1616 seriously retard Copemicanism? 179; title: Singular marks of an overruling Providence in all those acts 181; title: Threefold division of those doctrinal dicta, officially pronounced by Popes, which are not definitions of faith 183; title: ESSAY IX.; title: Reply to Two Objections.; title: First Objection. — "Even Ultramontane theologians confine the Pope's infallibility to his condemnation of heresy" Page 191; title: Answer. — That they are contemplating, not the "object" but the "subject" of infallibility 192; title: Three proofs of this, chosen from among many 194; title: Second Objection. — "How can Galileo's condemnation have been otherwise than a mistake, since all now admit that it was objectively incorrect ] " 198; title: We answer (1), that if it were admitted to be a mistake, no insurmountable difficulty would result 198; title: We (2) explain our original statement, that it was not a mistake in any true sense of that term 199; title: Those astronomers who advocated the Copemican hypothesis, were more favoured at Rome than their opponents 200