The Decrees of the Vatican Council

The Decrees of the Vatican Council (1907)
the First Vatican Council, edited by Vincent McNabb

131917The Decrees of the Vatican Council1907the First Vatican Council

THE DECREES

OF THE

VATICAN COUNCIL

Edited

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

by the

REV. VINCENT McNABB, O.P.

NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO

BENZIGER BROTHERS

Printers to the Holy Apostolic See

1907

Imprimi potest

FR LAURENTIUS SHAPCOTE, O.P., S.T.L.

Prior Provincialis

Imprimi potest

GULIELMUS

Episcopus Arindelenis

Vicarius Generalis

Westmonasterii

die 19 Oct. 1906

The Contents

To the Reader		v
Chronology		x
Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith
Prologue		15
I	Of God the Creator of all things	18
II	Of Revelation	19
III	Of Faith	22
IV	Of Faith and Reason	25
Canons
I	Of God the Creator of all things	28
II	Of Revelation	29
III	Of Faith	33
IV	Of Faith and Reason	31
First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ
Prologue		35
I	Of the Institution of the Apostolic Primacy in Blessed Peter	36
II	Of the Perpetuity of the Primacy of Blessed Peter in the Roman Pontiffs	38
III	Of the Power and Nature of the Primacy of the Roman Pontiff	39
IV	Concerning the Infallible Teaching of the Roman Pontiff	43

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