urch is divided among twelve independent churches ich have no bond of union with one another and ich have no supreme authority to judge finally on tters of doctrine or discipline. As to variations doctrine it is to be noted that the Greeks in 74, at the Council of Lyons and in 1439 at the uncil of Florence, acknowledged the supreme auority of the Pope and the procession of the Holy st, "Who proceeds from the Father and the Son. sequently they again rejected these dogmas and y still reject them.

sence of Holiness in the Greek Church

The Greek Church is without sanctity in its nders for Photius and Michael Cerularius separatfrom the Church of Rome only to satisfy their am:ion and their greed for domination; in its re.ts:

for the land which produced an Athanasius, il, a John Chrysostom, a Gregory Nazianzen, a il, has become barren in saints and great works; acles no longer manifest the divine assistance in is territory. The clergy are ill prepared for ›ir functions; they live in a state of subjection I debasement which robs them of the esteem of the ple and of the authority which they need to lead › faithful to the practice of the Gospel precepts.

ence of Catholicity in the Greek Church

The Greek Church is not catholic because it and always has been limited to a part of the ent, principally to Greece, Russia and Turkey.

ense of Apostolicity in the Greek Church

It is without apostolicity because it has ected the doctrine of the Apostles on the procesn of the Holy Ghost and on the supremacy of the cessors of St. Peter. Because it has ceased to in commmion with the successor of St. Peter, its tors have lost. all mission and all jurisdiction I have ceased to be the lawful heirs of the

Apostles. By violently tearing themselves away fro the supreme jurisdiction of the Pope the schismatic rent the chain which held them to the Church which

Christ built upon St. Peter: "Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gate of hell shall not prevail against it. (Matt. xvi, 18).

Not all Greeks belong to the Greek Church. Many of them are devout members of the Catholic Church. They are called United Greeks or Catholics There are about 144,000,000 Greek Schismatics.

We have been considering religions which claim to be Christian. We have examined them to determine which, if any, has any authentic claim to be that founded by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We know from history that He founded a visible Church which is to last for all time and to which He gave certain definite characteristics by which all men, if they choose and are given an opportunity to do so can recognize it without difficulty and with certainty. We have shown that the Roman Catholic Churc has all these characteristics, that she claims to be His Church and that history supports her claim. We must, therefore, believe that she is the Church founded by Christ for the salvation of all men and of which He said: "He who hears you hears me; he who despise you despise Me. "Behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world." Besides those religions considered above there are others which make no claim to be Christian which do not possess any of the characteristic marks of the true Church and are not, therefore, founded by Christ but which have many millions of followers. I am, of course, referring to the eastern pagan religions: Mohammedanism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Buddhism and others. All of them have some idea of God. They, at least, recognize the existence of a Supreme Being to Whom they must pay worship. What worship they should pay, to whom it must be paid, how it should be paid are utterly

nfused amongst them. They are literally pagans. ey do not know the true God. Catholic missionaries ve been trying to convert them. Their success has t been particularly outstanding due to a mistrust the white man and a lack of understanding of the stern mind by the white man. Perhaps, Providenally, this terrible world war will bring these ckward, ignorant, unknown peoples, out of their rkness to the Light of the world, which is Christ Jus, the Son of God, and into His Church which He aced on earth for their eternal salvation and Ice and comfort in this life. May God grant that on they may enter His fold! Pray the Lord of the vest that He send worthy, saintly men to reap the 'vest.

Chapter IX

THE PRIMACY OF ST. PETER AND THE INFALLIBILITY

OF THE POPE

The Roman Catholic Church is the Church of Christ. Every member of it must believe everything pertaining to faith and morals that she teaches. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be condemned. (Mark, xvi, 16). Faith, then, is absolutely necessary for salvation. Without faith it is impossible to pleas God. Faith is the acceptance of a statement solely on the authority of the person who makes it. If th one making it is man, our faith is human; if God makes it, it is divine. Divine faith according to Pope Leo XIII "is that supernatural virtue by which through the help of God and through the assistance of His grace, we believe what He has revealed to be true, not on account of the intrinsic truth perceived by the natural light of reason, but because of the authority of God Himself, the Revealer, who can neither deceive nor be deceived. (Ency. Unity of the Church). God's revealed word is the only motive of divine faith.

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The object of divine faith is everything He commanded His apostles and, after them, their successors to teach: "teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. He that be lieveth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be condemned. Each and every truth and every part of it, and in the sense in which God intended, must be believed. You either believe everything or nothing. No one may pick and choose as he pleases. "He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. (Matt. xii, 30).

Not all of these revealed truths are easy to understand. The fundamental truths of Christian faith are completely beyond the intellectual powers of any man to comprehend. They are supernatural mysteries. Yet, belief in them is absolutely necessary for salvation. How can we believe them if we do not know them? How can we accept them if we do not know how to understand them? It is evident that God who, under the pain of eternal damnation, exacts belief in these truths must put within the reach of all not only what must be believed but how they are to be understood. This method of instruction must be easy for all; the ignorant as well as the learned, the poor as well as the rich, the child as well as the adult, the savage as well as the civilized. This method must be infallible otherwise it might lead to error and, thus, to eternal ruin.

It remains to make clear what this infallible method is and where it is to be found. We have shown that Christ's Church is infallible. Hence, we know where infallibility lies. It is in the Roman Catholic Church. Who is infallible remains to be shown. It is, as we shall show, the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, the Supreme Pontiff, the Successor of St. Peter, Christ's Vicar and Viceroy on earth.

We must keep in mind that the Church founded by Christ was to last many, many years after the deaths of the apostles; that the properties granted by Christ to the Apostles in union with St. Peter and to Peter alone were to continue in their succesBors. This is self-evident since the Church is perpetual: "Behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. (Matt.xxviii, 20). We intend to show that St. Peter was chosen to be the infallible head of the Church of Christ and that, consequently, the successor of St. Peter possesses the powers and rights that he had.

Five great passages of Scripture prove beyond all shadow of doubt the Primacy of St. Peter. Everything that God does is done with wisdom. We