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Don't be a fool man! I simply point out to such as yourself, that in promoting speculative theological theories which cannot be known as true over believing unreservedly the word and command of God is unwise, and that any such theorizing must comport with what Jesus Christ the Lord has decreed as His Gospel of Truth. He is the supreme and unassailable authority of the Christian Religion. "He who has ears, let him hear". We as Christians can never add to, or take away from His words.

The eight docuмents in which these pronouncements are contained are:

A profession of the Catholic faith issued by the Fourth Lateran Council, the twelfth in the series of Oecuмenical Councils, in 1215, during the pontificate Pope Innocent III.

The Bull Unam sanctam, published by Pope Boniface VIII, on November 18, 1302.

The decree for the Jacobites, the Bull Cantate Domino, published by Pope Eugenius IV on February 4, 1442, and included in the Acta of the Council of Florence, the seventeenth among the Oecuмenical Councils.

The allocution Singulari quadam, delivered on December 9, 1854, the day after the solemn definition of Our Lady's Immaculate Conception, by Pope Pius IX, to the Cardinals, Archbishops, and bishops gathered in Rome for that definition.

The encyclical Quanto conficiamur moerore, addressed by Pope Pius IX to the Bishops of Italy on August 10, 1863.

The encyclical letter Mystici Corporis Christi, published on June 29, 1943, by Pope Pius XII.

The letter Suprema haec sacra, sent by the Holy Office, at the command of Pope Pius XII, to His Excellency the Most Reverend Archbishop of Boston, on August 8, 1949.

The encyclical letter Humani generis, issued by Pope Pius XII on August 12, 1950.

Each of the eight chapters that go to make up the first part of this book will consider the teachings of one of these docuмents on the necessity of the Catholic Church for the attainment of eternal salvation. The docuмents will be studied in chronological order. Fenton