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the elements in the Holy Sacrament of the
Altar, of the Invocation of the Blessed Virgin
Marv and the Angels and Saints, and of the
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perpetual infallibility
of the visible Catholic
Church of CHRIST here upon earth ; and that
the souls of the faithful departed are benefited
by the prayers and alms of their fellow
Christians on earth, and especially by the most
Holy Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of CHRIST.
Upon all these points and others also relating
to free will, original sin, predestination, and
good works, the Eastern Church is equally ex
plicit, and, without an explicit acknowledgment
of these vital Catholic truths, she will never
form a union with the Anglican Church, or any
other body of Protestants.
We need scarcely say that upon all these
points our own Latin Catholic Church is equally
explicit, and with us there is one other point,
which we at least regard as equally vital, and
that is the acknowledgment of the Primacy of
S. Peter s Chair : we cannot see how without
this, it is possible to preserve any unity in the
Christian Church. The Greeks acknowledge
with ourselves that our LORD conferred the
Primacy originally upon S. Peter, but they
assert that after S. Peter s death it was be
queathed to the Church, and that the Church
had the power of conferring it, or not, upon
any individual episcopal see. They acknowledge
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