of the Faith. Therefore, this question is of the number of those which may be disputed without detriment to Catholicity."
His conclusion is that:—
"accordingly the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff cannot be urged against heretics, nor utilised to establish the Catholic Faith. …[1] Nor can it be adduced, even by those who are fully convinced of its truth, as a test principle. For nothing can be employed as a basis of divine Faith which is not in itself indisputable. Neither can that be made the rule of faith which itself forms no portion of the faith."[2]
The Catechism of the Catholic Religion by Krautheimer,[3] approved by the Bishop of Mainz in 1845, contains the following question and answer:—
"Do we believe that, as a consequence of this primacy, the Pope is infallible and may decide as Christ Himself; as the non-Catholics allege?
No. The Pope possesses in controversies of faith only a judicial decision which can only become an article of faith when the Church gives its concurrence."
This and similarly worded books of instruction had been recently withdrawn in parts of Germany through Ultramontane influence, and replaced by a Jesuit Catechism.
Philip Neri Chrismann was a Franciscan monk, and reader in Theology and Ecclesiastical History. His Rule of Catholic Faith was republished at Wurzburg in Bavaria, with the permission and approval of his ecclesiastical superiors in 1854. In this work on Dogmatic Theology he gives an exposition of the Infallibility of the Church, its nature and restrictions,
