Excerpt from Reunion and Rome Gradually her theory had become that the unity of the Church depends upon its having in addition to our Lord Jesus Christ, a visible head, the Bishop of Rome, and that this prelate (though only elected by the Roman minority of Christendom) is the centre of unity, and since 1870 the infallible standard of religious truth, and that no one is in communion with the Church who is not in communion with the Pope and in complete submission to his dicta tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.