“We teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed; that the Roman pontiff, when he speaks _ex cathedra_, that is, when in the discharge of the office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed that His church should be endowed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the church.”—_Id., page 218._ “Should Jesus Christ come in person from heaven into a church to administer the sacrament of reconciliation, and should He say to a penitent, ‘I absolve thee,’ and should a priest sitting at His side in the tribunal of penance pronounce over a penitent the selfsame words, ‘I absolve thee,’ there is no question that in the latter case, as in the former, the penitent would be equally loosed from his sin.”—_“__Jesus Living in the Priest,__”__ by the Rev. P. Millet, S. J., English translation by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Sebastian Byrne, D. D., bishop of Nashville; New York, Benziger Brothers, printers to the Holy Apostolic See, 1901, pages 23, 24. Imprimatur, Michael Augustine, archbishop of New York._ Among the twenty-seven propositions known as the “Dictates of Hildebrand,” who, under the name of Gregory VII, was Pope from 1073-87, occur the following:— “2. That the Roman pontiff alone is justly styled universal. “6. That no person ... may live under the same roof with one excommunicated by the Pope. “9. That all princes should kiss his feet only. “12. That it is lawful for him to depose emperors. “18. That his sentence is not to be reviewed by any one; while he alone can review the decisions of all others. “19. That he can be judged by no one. “22. That the Romish Church never erred, nor will it, according to the Scriptures, ever err. “26. That no one is to be accounted a Catholic who does not harmonize with the Romish Church. “27. That he can absolve subjects from their allegiance to unrighteous rulers.”—_Annals of Baronius, 1076, Vol. XI, col. 506. See Gieseler’s __“__Ecclesiastical History,__”__ third period, div. 3, par. 47, note 3; and Mosheim’s __“__Ecclesiastical History,__”__ book 3, cen. 11, part 2, chap. 2, par. 9, note._