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AUTHENTICATED REPORT of the DISCUSSION which took place AT LONDONDERRY, BETWEEN SIX ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS, AND SIX CLERGYMEN OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH; IN THE DIOCESE OF DERRY, March, (1828).
"the promise of infallibility was made to the college of the Apostles to preserve this passive infallibility, or, in other words, that the people should always profess the doctrine of Christ."
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A Catholic Dictionary, by W.E. Addis and T. Arnold (1884):
The ecclesia credens, or body of the faithful, is infallible in its belief concerning faith in morals: i.e. in theological language, the Church has a passive infallibility; but, as the faithful are bound to learn the faith from their pastors, it follows that the Church has an active as well as a passive infallibility: i.e. the faithful cannot err in what they believe, because the same Holy Spirit which enables them to believe what their pastors teach provides that these pastors shall teach the truth with unerring voice.
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The Church of the First Three Centuries: A Work Founded on the Sacred Scripture and Early Patristic Writings, (1861)
Rev. H. E. Dennehy
On the other hand, if the active infallibility, or the inerrancy of the teaching body be proved, the passive infallibility, or the inerrancy of the body thought, is a natural and rational inference, So that, in reality, the proofs which are adduced in favour of the passive and active infallibility mutually prop up each other, or, to speak more correctly, they coalesce into one convincing argument of the proposition we are now considering.
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Catholic World, Vol. 42 (1885):
"It is true that what the church dispersed through the world teaches by her ordinary magistracy as of divine faith has an equal authority with her solemn teaching. Active infallibility is always in the teaching church, passive infallibility in the body of the faithful. The principal dogmas defined by the solemn acts of the church were explicitly taught and believed as of divine faith before the first oecuмenical council was convoked; and all the dogmas defined or definable have been objects of implicit faith from the days of the apostles. "
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The Dublin Review, Vol. 67 (1886):
"the Church's prerogative of passive infallibility will import, that Catholics can never be unanimous in holding any opinion, which either contradicts revealed truth or leads by legitimate consequence to such contradiction."
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The Creed Explained, or, An Exposition of Catholic Doctrine (1892)
Rev. Arthur Devine
"Passive infallibility is the gift of inerrancy, which is imparted to the Church believing (ecclesia credens) so that it may never, even in the least matter, believe or profess error in anything appertaining to faith "
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The Works of the Right Reverend John England: First Bishop of Charleston Vol. 1 (1908)
By Bishop John England, Archbishop Sebastian Gebhard Messmer
"The Infallibility of the Church is distinguished into active Infallibility and passive Infallibility. Active Infallibility resides in the Pastors and Doctors of the Church whom Christ gave (Eph. iv) for the edification of his mystic body. Passive Infallibility belongs to the universal Church, which (I Tim. iii. 15.) is called "the pillar and ground of truth."
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