Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
constant .and unanimous tradition, has been
piously
revered in all countries and in all
ages ; finally, which mounts back by
Iv
an unin
terrupted chain to the Apostles, and through the
Apostles to JESUS CHRIST, Who is the way, the
truth, and the life.* Notwithstanding her incon
testable rights and her sovereign authority, the
[Roman] Catholic Church shows a marvellous
condescension and charity for those wdio think
not as she does. On all controverted points
she leaves them the power of coming to their
own conviction, and demands the submission of
their minds only on the questions which have
received the sanction of the Universal Church.
Such, in two words, is the charta which she
will
publish, on the day when England and
Russia shall think seriously of Re-union with
her, absolute faith on all the dogmatic points
decreed by the Holy Councils and received by
the Universal Church, liberty on all other
questions."
It is satisfactory, further, to see the doctrines
of the Procession of the HOLY GHOST and the
Primacy of the "
Pope spoken of as susceptible
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of a good understanding with the
Church. The terms, then, which
Russian
he con-
It seems strange that a Dominican should write this
in memory of what his forefathers, e.g., Card. Turrecremata,
collected in evidence against any tradition of the
Immaculate Conception. Still it is satisfactory to see what
we hold as a principle acknowledged.