The things we do!

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Catholic Faith insists, in relation to discipline as well as to
dogma, that if one rejects the decision of the Roman Church one
ceases to be a Catholic; that the constitution of the Church is
monarchical, that the ordaining of priests and bishops is made from
above so that without communion with the Pope, its supreme head, one
is schismatic and that no schismatic priest legitimately can perform
a holy service, and that no true faithful may attend his service or
receive his blessings without committing a sin. - It is a fact that
the faithful, apart from a few Jansenists, are neither theologians
nor canonists; that they read neither prayers nor scriptures, and if
they accept the creed, it is in a lump, without investigation,
confiding in the hand which presents it; that their obedient
conscience is in the keeping of this pastoral guide; that the Church
of the third century is of little consequence to them; and that, as
far as the true form of the actual Church goes, the doctor whose
advice they follow is not St.


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