The Vatican Council, Volume I Science Paperback: 244pp

Paperback: 244pp

and these masters offer important directions

Yet devotion to the foster father of Jesus Christ has been a feature of the Christian life since the earliest days of the Church

there should be

Paperback: 392pp

The Vatican Council, Volume I Science Paperback: 244ppBy Cuthbert Butler, O. S. B. The First Vatican Council is a landmark in the history of the Catholic Church. Not since the momentous Council of Trent, held from 1545 to 1563, had a pope invoked his apostolic authority to open an ecumenical council, as Pope Pius IX did on December 8, 1869, in St. Peters Basilica. In 1869 as in 1545, storms buffeted the Barque of the Church, threatening to subvert and submerge its mission. To confront and refute errors