Views During The Time of the Reformation (9): Views on the Church: The Formal Principle

We will now continue with our quotation of Chapter 3 of the Dogmatic Decrees of the Vatican Council of 1870. We will now continue with our quotation of Chapter 3 of the Dogmatic Decrees of the Vatican Council of 1870. "Hence we teach and declare that by the appointment of our Lord the Roman Church possesses a superiority of ordinary power over all other churches, and that this power of juris­diction of the Roman Pontiff, which is truly episcopal, is immediate; to which all, of whatever rite...