THE

Rights and Pretensions

OF THE

Roman See

Lectures

DELIVERED IN 1894 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
CHURCH CLUB OF NEW YORK

NEW YORK

E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.

COOPER UNION, FOURTH AVENUE

1894

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

ST. PETER AND THE PRIMACY OF THE ROMAN SEE.

By the Rt. Rev. William Paret, D.D., LL.D., Bishop

of Maryland.

By the Rev. Lucius Waterman, D.D., Priest-in-charge of

St. James's Church, Laconia, New Hampshire.

By the Rev. Greenough White, M.A., Trinity College,

Hartford, Connecticut.

LECTURE IV.

THE GROWTH OF THE PAPAL SUPREMACY AND

FEUDALISM

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93

135

By the Rev. Robert Ritchie, M.A., Rector of the Church of

St. James the Less, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

LECTURE V.

THE BABYLONIAN EXILE AND THE PAPAL SCHISM

187

By the Rev. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Rector of St. Andrew's

Church, Rochester, New York.

LECTURE VI.

THE SYLLABUS AND PAPAL INFALLIBILITY

243

By the Rt. Rev. Arthur C. A. Hall, D.D., Bishop of Vermont.

THE

INTRODUCTION.

This

HE Lectures gathered in this volume are the natural sequel of the Course in 1893 on "The Six Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Catholic Church." very title suggests the Church's altered state, and leads one to "mark them which cause divisions" that afflict Christendom in our day; while, moreover, in the Course of 1893 special emergence of the modern Roman claims appeared, notably in the Lectures of the Rev. Dr. Elmendorf and the Rev. Dr. Riley. Not without reason, therefore, was chosen as the subject for 1894, "The Rights and Pretensions of the Roman See," a subject in this volume developed throughout with unusual learning, lucidity, and charm of style. Here may be traced the whole