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Posted by R.V. Gronoff on January 15, 2008, 3:10 pm
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in the other. And thus they have spoken
differently of the Pope. (Saint Cyprian: Sacerdos Dei.)[216] But in
establishing one of these truths, they have not excluded the other.
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not
depend on plurality is tyranny. There is scarcely any other country than
France in which it is permissible to say that the Council is above the Pope.
872. The Pope is head. Who else is known of all? Who else is recognised by
all, having power to insinuate himself into all the body, because he holds
the principal shoot, which insinuates itself everywhere? How easy it was to
make this degenerate into tyranny! That is why Christ has laid down for them
this precept: Vos autem non sic.[217]
873. The Pope hates and fears the learned, who do not submit to him at will.
874. We must not judge of what the Pope is by some words of the Fathers--as
the Greeks said in a council, important rules--but by the acts of the Church
and the Fathers, and by the canons.
Duo[218] aut tres.219 In unum. Unity and plurality. It is an error to
exclude one of the two, as the papists do who exclude plurality, or the
Huguenots who exclude unity.
875. Would the Pope be dishonoured by having his knowledge from God and
tradition; and is it not dishonouring him to separate him from this holy
union?
876. God does not perform miracles
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