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1884
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Burns and Oates
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Catholic belief: or, a short and simple exposition of Catholic Doctrine
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS.
Preface of H. E. Cardinal Manning vii
Preface ix
Introduction xlii
PART I.
CHAPTER
I. God and His Perfections 1
II. The Most Holy Trinity 1
III. Original Sin 4
IV. The Incarnation of God the Son 7
V. Jesus our only Mediator of Redemption 8
VI. The Holy Bible 10
VII. The Unwritten Word of God 14
VIII. The Interpretation of Holy Scripture 24
IX. Infallibility of the Church and of the Pope 85
X. Justification 48
XI. How Christ's Redemption is applied to Men 53
XII. The Holy Sacraments 54
XIII. Holy Baptism 56
XIV. On Sin (Nature and Consequences of it) 58
XV. The Sacrament of Penance 65
XVI. The Holy Eucharist 68
XVII. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass 72
XVIII. Holy Mass serves to apply Christ's Redemption to Individual Men 77
XIX. Ceremonies and Ritual of the Catholic Church 80
XX. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 90
XXI. Confirmation 97
XXII. Extreme Unction 98
XXIII. Holy Order 100
XXIV. Holy Matrimony 101
XXV. Only One True Church 105
XXVI. First Mark of the True Church : Oneness of Faith, of Worship, of Sacraments, and of a Supreme Ruler 107
XXVII. Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome 108
XXVIII. List of all the General Councils held in the Church of God from the time of the Apostles to A.D. 1880 123
XXIX. Second Mark: Holiness 132
IXXX. List of some Saints arranged in order of time 139
XXXI. Third Mark: Catholicity 153
XXXII. Fourth Mark: Apostolicity 161
XXXIII. List of the Sovereign Pontiffs, who, in a regular unbroken line, have Succeeded St. Peter in the See of Rome 164
XXXIV. The Sign of the Cross 172
XXXV. Prayer—Necessity and Usefulness of it 175
XXXVI. Works of Penance 180
XXXVII. Indulgences 183
XXXVIII. Purgatory 185
XXXIX. The Invocation of the Saints 192
XL. The Blessed Virgin Mary justly called 195
XLI. Honour and Devotion to the B. V. Mary 198
XLII. The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary 200
XLIII. Reverence to Belies and other Religious Objects 208
XLIV. On the Use of the Latin Language 212
XLV. Some Things that Catholics do not believe 216
XLVI. Conclusion and a Prayer for Light 222
PART II.
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS TO A PROTESTANT BEFORE AND AFTER BEING RECEIVED INTO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
1. Answers to some Difficulties, and to some Questions, that a person earnestly seeking the True Religion might wish to ask 225
2. Apostles' Creed — Creed of Pope Pius IV., and other Shorter Professions of Faith 239
3. Conversion of Victorinus 247
4. Some distinguished Converts of North America 254
5. Earnest Appeal to Protestants 255
6. Addresses of some of the Clergy, in and near London, and Abroad 257
7. Choice of Prayers 260
8. Prayer for a Good Death 266
9. Stations of the Cross, and other special Prayers 268
10. Veni Creator Spiritus, Hymn to the Holy Ghost 279
Adeste, fideles 280
The Stabat Mater 281
11. Te Deum Laudamus (or Ambrosian Hymn) 282
12. Observations on Faith, by Cardinal Newman 284
13. Acts of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Contrition 285
14. The Mass not a mere Form of Words. By Cardinal Newman 286
15. A Short Method of Hearing Mass 288
16. Method of Confession 293
17. Commandments of God and of the Church 304
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Opposite Virtues 305
The Seven Spiritual Works of Mercy 305
The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy 306
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit 306
The Eight Beatitudes 306
PART III.
Miscellaneous Subjects.
1. St. Peter in Rome 307
2. Cusa, Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler 322
3. The Transmission of the Sin of Adam to his Children considered 329
4. "Communion in one kind" 334
5. Predestination 352
6. "Justification by Faith Alone," considered 358
7. List of the Fathers of the Church 379
8. Canonised Founders of Orders and Congregations in the Church 385
9. Chief Heresies 386
10. England never rejected, of her own accord, the Catholic Faith 390
11. Cardinal Manning on Total Abstinence 394
12. Lines on the Blessed Virgin, by the American Poet Longfellow 39
13. Census of Religions in the World 397
14. Census of Catholics in the World 398
15. Census of Catholics and Protestants in Europe 399
16. Difficulties of Private Interpretation 400
17. List of 180 Protestant Sects in England and Wales 404
18. List of Protestant Sects in the United States 406
19. Religious Statistics in Ireland 406
20. Dawn of a remarkable Conversion in Rome 407
21. Mr. Orby Shipley's Conversion 403
22. Converts to Catholicity not Unhappy 410
23. Extract from Lord Macau] ay's Essay on Ranke's "History of the Popes" 413
24. Parting words to one who feels convinced of the Truth of the Roman Catholic Religion, and who does not join the Church 415
Alphabetical General Index 419
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