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Show . SELECTED., , Papal Infallibility. The infallibility infal-libility dogma is briefly set forth in the following five canons, on which our readers can form their own conclusions. conclu-sions. It will be seen that the fifth places the Pope above councils : 1. If any one should say that the episcopal chair of the Roman church is not the true and real infallible chair of blessed Peter, or that it has not been divinely chosen by God as the most solid, indefectible, and incorruptible incorrupt-ible rock of the wholeChrisdan church, let him be anathema. 2. If any one should say that there exists in the world another infallible chair of the truth of the gospel of Christ our Lord, distinct and separate from the chair of blessed Peter, let him be anathema. 3 if' any one should deny that the divine, niagisterium of the chair of blessed Peter is necessary to the true wuy of eternal salvation for all men, whether faithful or unfaithful, whether laymen or bishops, let him be anathema. anath-ema. . ' ' 4. If any one should say that the Roman Pontiff, legitimately elected, is not by divine rijJit the successor of blessed Peter, even in the gift of tl.e infallibility nf'magisteriuui, and should deny to any one of them the prerogative preroga-tive of infallibility tor teaching ttie Church the word of LJod, pure from all corruption and error, let him be anathema. 5, If any one should say that genera! comncils are established by God in the church as a power of feeding the divine di-vine flock in the word of faith, superior supe-rior to the Roman Pontiff, or equal to him, or necessary by divine institution, institu-tion, in order that the magisterium of the Roman Bishop should be preserved pre-served infallible, let him be anathema. |