. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. he See of Home or with the Pope, the successor of and Vicar of Christ on earth. The government of theCatholic Church may be considered monarchical, inasmuch asthe Pope is held in it to be the ruler over the entire Church,and the most distant bishop holds his appointment fromhim, and receives from him his authority. The dign
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. he See of Home or with the Pope, the successor of and Vicar of Christ on earth. The government of theCatholic Church may be considered monarchical, inasmuch asthe Pope is held in it to be the ruler over the entire Church,and the most distant bishop holds his appointment fromhim, and receives from him his authority. The dignity oroffice of Pope is held to be inherent in the occupant, of theSee of Rome, as successor of St. Peter, by virtue of thecommission given to St. Peter, not as his own personal pre-rogative, but as a part of the constitution of the Church, forits advantage, and therefore intended to descend to his suc-cessors, as the episcopal power did from the apostles to thosewho succeeded them in their respective Sees. The electionof the Pope is made by the six suburban bishops of Sees inthe immediate vicinity of Rome, namely, those of Ostia andVelletri, Porto and Santa Rufina, Albano, Palestrina, Sabina,Frascati, who are always Cardinal bishops ; and by the Car- (272). 1 —^ ,•1 *l i A S \ GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH. 273 dinal priests and deacons of the ancient churches of Rome,wno form the bodies of Cardinal priests and deacons. TheseCardinal priests may hold dignities in other countries asarchbishop or bishop, but in the Cardinalship they aresimply Cardinal priests. The Catholic Church being essentially episcopal, is gov-erned by bishops, who are of two kinds: bishops in ordin-ary, governing dioceses, who bear the name of the See overwhich they rule, and titular bishops bearing the title of someancient See, who govern temporary districts as vicars-apos-tolic, or assist otherwise in the government of the powers of bishops, and the manner of exercising theirauthority, are regu
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