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St. Nicholas I, 858-867

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and weep piously, but rather in certain and true faith, let that be embraced which has been sufficiently determined by the Holy Fathers concerning these and similar things.

BENEDICT III 855-858

ST. NICHOLAS I 858-867

ROMAN COUNCIL 860 AND 863

Primacy, the Passion of Christ, Baptism1

326. Chap. 5. If anyone condemns dogmas, mandates, interdicts, sanctions or decrees, promulgated by the one presiding in the Apostolic See, for the Catholic faith, for the correction of the faithful, for the emendation of criminals, either by an interdict of threatening or of future ills, let him be anathema.2

327. Chap. 7. Truly indeed we must believe and in every way profess that our Lord Jesus Christ, God and Son of God, suffered the passion of the Cross only according to the flesh; in the Godhead however, he remained impassible, as the apostolic authority teaches and the doctrine of the Holy Fathers most clearly shows.

328. Chap. 8. Let these however be anathema, who say that our Redeemer Jesus Christ and Son of God sustained the passion of the Cross according to His Godhead, since it is impious and detestable to Catholic minds.

329. Chap. 9. For all those who say that these who believing in the most holy font of baptism are reborn in the Father, in the Son, and in the Holy Spirit, are not equally cleansed from original sin, let it be anathema.

The Immunity and Independence of the Church3

[From epistle (8) "Proposueramus quidem" to Michael the Emperor, 865]

330. . . . Neither by Augustus, nor by all the clergy, nor by religious, nor by the people will the judge be judged4. . . . "The first seat will not be judged by anyone"5 [see n. 352 ff.].

  1. Msi XV 652 E 658 f.; Jf 2692; Hrd V 574 E; cf. Hfl IV 260, 272 ff. ↩

  2. This chapter is due to the council of the year 863, the following to the council of the year 861. ↩

  3. Msi XV 196 D ff.; cf. Jf 2796 c. Add; Hrd V 154 C ff.; ML 119, 938 D ff.; cf. Hfl IV 334 f. ↩

  4. These are alleged to be the words of St. Sylvester. ↩

  5. From the acts of the apocryphal synod of Sinuessa (between Rome and Capua), 303 [cf. Hfl I 143 ff.]. ↩