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deceived. This was urged very forcibly by Janus and Gratry before the Vatican Decisions.
Some maintained that he would have arrived in any case at the same conclusion. Others said that inferences from falsified premises mistaken for the faith of saints awaken serious doubt as to their validity. It was also urged, and probably with truth, that these extracts were not the basis of his doctrine on the primacy. Still it was felt that they contributed to advance ideas. It is an unwholesome pedigree, especially when a Roman theologian calls these forged authorities the strongest passages in the patristic evidences.
