Excerpt from The Life, Times and Writings of Thomas Fuller, the Church Historian (1608-1661), Vol. 2 One of the principal dogmas of the Vatican Council was decreeing the personal infallibility of the occupant of St. Peter's chair, speaking ex-cathedre. In faith and morals. We all know the struggle on the part of the old Catholics when overborne by sheer numbers, principally Italians; but our age, which was startled hythe promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (on the late Pio Nono's ipse dixit), has witnessed the Vatican decrees, the syllabus, and the definition of the doctrine of Papal infallibility, the' last addition (for the present) to the old Catholic creeds of undivided Christendom. This is not the place either to discuss its want of phiiosophic accuracy, its suicidal policy. 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.