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Page 50. Titles.--In a passage which is included in the Roman Catholic Canon
Law, or Corpus Juris Canonici, Pope Innocent III declares that the Roman pontiff is
"the vicegerent upon earth, not of a mere man, but of very God;" and in a gloss on the
passage it is explained that this is because he is the vicegerent of Christ, who is "very
God and very man." See Decretales Domini Gregorii Papae IX (Decretals of the Lord
Pope Gregory IX), liber 1, de translatione Episcoporum, (on the transference of
Bishops), title 7, ch. 3; Corpus Juris Canonici (2d Leipzig ed., 1881), col. 99; (Paris,
1612), tom. 2, Decretales, col. 205. The documents which formed the Decretals were
gathered by Gratian, who was teaching at the University of Bologna about the year
1140. His work was added to and re-edited by Pope Gregory IX in an edition issued in
1234. Other documents appeared in succeeding years from time to time including the
Extravagantes, added toward the close of the fifteenth century. All of these, with
Gratian's Decretum, were published as the Corpus Juris Canonici in 1582. Pope Pius
X authorized the codification in Canon law in 1904, and the resulting code became
effective in 1918.
For the title "Lord God the Pope" see a gloss on the Extravagantes of Pope John
XXII, title 14, ch. 4, Declaramus. In an Antwerp edition of the Extravagantes, dated
1584, the words "Dominum Deum nostrum Papam" ("Our Lord God the Pope") occur
in column 153. In a Paris edition, dated 1612, they occur in column 140. In several
editions published since 1612 the word "Deum" ("God") has been omitted.
Page 50. Infallibility.--On the doctrine of infallibility as set forth at the Vatican
Council of 1870-71, see Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol. 2, Dogmatic
Decrees of the Vatican Council, pp. 234-271, where both the Latin and the English
texts are given. For discussion see, for the Roman Catholic view, The Catholic
Encyclopedia, vol. 7, art. "Infallibility," by Patrick J. Toner, p. 790 ff.; James Cardinal
Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 110th ed.,
1917), chs. 7, 11. For Roman Catholic opposition to the doctrine of papal infallibility,
see Johann Joseph Ignaz von Doellinger (pseudonym "Janus") The Pope and the
Council (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1869); and W.J. Sparrow Simpson,
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