A discussion between some of us last night got on to the topic of Papal authority and I was citing Pope Grepry VII's Dictatus Papae and Pope Boniface VIII's Unam Sanctam - well, I would wouldn't I. Today one of the other members of the group has forwarded to us all the statement of Vatican I in 1870 as authoratative:
If anyone says that the Roman pontiff has merely an office of supervision and guidance, and not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole church, and this not only in matters of faith and morals, but also in those which concern the discipline and government of the church dispersed throughout the whole world; or that he has only the principal part, but not the absolute fullness, of this supreme power; or that this power of his is not ordinary and immediate both over all and each of the churches and over all and each of the pastors and faithful: let him be anathema.
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