![]() The Cambridge History of Christianity, c.1815 – c.1914. ![]() sold more than 2 million copies in more than a hundred editions during its first forty years in print. by James Cardinal Gibbons, Catholic archbishop of Baltimore. “The Catholic Church is persistently misrepresented by the most powerful vehicles of information.” ( Page xi) “Hence, it is clear that Jesus Christ intended that His Church should have one common doctrine which all Christians are bound to believe, and one uniform government to which all should be loyally attached.” ( ) “It will not suffice to tell me: ‘We have an infallible Scripture as a substitute for an infallible apostolate of the first century,’ for an infallible book is of no use to me without an infallible interpreter, as the history of Protestantism too clearly demonstrates.” ( ) That our Savior requires this unity of faith and government in His members is evident from various passages of Holy Writ.” ( ) By schism, he spurns the authority of his spiritual superiors. ![]() By heresy, a man rejects one or more articles of the Christian faith. Heresy and schism are opposed to Christian unity. “BY unity is meant that the members of the true Church must be united in the belief of the same doctrines of revelation, and in the acknowledgment of the authority of the same pastors. The principal marks or characteristics of the true Church are, her Unity, Sanctity, Catholicity, and Apostolicity, 3 to which may be added the Infallibility of her teaching and the Perpetuity of her existence.” ( ) ![]() “And lest we should be mistaken in distinguishing between the true Church and false sects, which our Lord predicted would arise, He was pleased to stamp upon His Church certain shining marks, by which every sincere inquirer could easily recognize her as His only Spouse. ![]()
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