by James Cardinal Gibbons (Author)
CONTENTS The Blessed Trinity, the Incarnation, etc.; Unity of the Church; Holiness of the Church; Catholicity; Apostolicity; Perpetuity of the Church; Infallible Authority of the Church; The Church and the Bible; The Primacy of Peter; The Supremacy of the Popes; Infallibility of the Popes; Temporal Power of the Popes - How They Acquired Temporal Power - Validity and Justice of Their Title - What the Popes Have Done for Rome; Invocation of Saints; Is it Lawful to Honor the Blessed Virgin Mary as a Saint, to Invoke her as an Intercessor, and to Imitate Her as a Model?; Sacred Images; Purgatory, and the Prayers for the Dead; Civil and Religious Liberty; Charges of Religious Persecution; Grace - The Sacraments - Original Sin - Baptism - Its Necessity - Its Effects - Manner of Baptizing; The Sacrament of Confirmation; The Holy Eucharist; Communion under One Kind; The Sacrifice of the Mass; The Use of Religious Ceremonies Dictated by Right Reason - Approved by Almighty God in the Old Law - Sanctioned by Jesus Christ in the New; Ceremonies of the Mass - The Missal - Latin Language - Lights - Flowers - Incense - Vestments; The Sacrament of Penance; Indulgences; Extreme Unction; The Priesthood; Celibacy of the Clergy; Matrimony