Catholicity, Protestantism and infidelity: an appeal to candid Americans

Catholicity, Protestantism and infidelity: an appeal to candid Americans

Author: Weninger, F. X. (Francis Xavier), 1805-1888

Year: 1869

TABLE OF CONTENTS. PREFACE V INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER I. THE CHARACTER OF PROTESTANTISM 5 SECTION I CONTROVERTED DOGMAS COMPARED. The Primitive Condition of Man and the Fall 7 The Redemption 13 The Church 17 The Means of Salvation 31 Baptism 34 Confirmation 35 The Eucharist 37 Penance — Indulgences 49 Extreme Unction 58 Holy Orders 62 Matrimony 66 Good Works 68 Purgatory 72 The Communion of Saints 76 SECTION II. CONSEQUENCES, 80 Ulterior Consequences 88 CHAPTER II THE PRINCIPLE OF PROTESTANTISM 104 SECTION I STRENGTH OF THE CATHOLIC PRINCIPLE, WHICH IS, THAT THE TEACHING OF THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS THE TRUE RULE OF FAITH 104 UNANSWERABLE PROOF, FOUNDED ON THE MARK OF APOSTOLICITY, THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST 106 THE OTHER MARKS OF THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST BELONG ONLY TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 122 Unity 124 Holiness 131 Universality 139 Indestructibility 143 CONCLUSIVE PROOF OF THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AS THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST — HER INFALLIBILITY IS THR RULE OF FAITH 153 SECTION II THR WEAKNESS AND ABSURDITY OF THR PROTESTANT RULE OF FAITH 163 THE PRIVATE INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE HAS NONE OF THE REQUISITES OF A TRUE RULE OF FAITH 165