MR. P. DONAHOE, Boston, announces as in press an account of the “Passion Play” at Oberammergau, Bavaria, from the pen of the Rev. George W. Doane, Chancellor of the Diocese of Newark. It will be dedicated to the Rt. Rev. J. R. Bayley, D.D., Bishop of Newark. The Catholic Publication Society will publish, early in November, _Mary, Queen of Scots, and her Latest Historian_, by James F. Meline. This book will contain the articles which appeared in THE CATHOLIC WORLD on Mr. Froude, as well as a great deal of new matter. In fact, the articles as they appeared in THE CATHOLIC WORLD are almost entirely rewritten, and many new facts produced. It will be a complete refutation of Mr. Froude’s romance of history. * * * * * ERRATUM.--In the article on “The Reformation not Conservative,” p. 733, 1st column, 16th line from the bottom, for _French_ sovereigns read _Frank_ sovereigns. Christendom was founded some centuries before there was a French sovereign or a French kingdom, in the modern sense of the word _French_, or France. The Franks were a Germanic race, and the German was their mother-tongue. THE 145 CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XIV., No. 80.--NOVEMBER, 1871. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by REV. I. T. HECKER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. AUTHORITY IN MATTERS OF FAITH. The question we propose to discuss in this article is opened in the note we introduce, answering an objection to the infallibility of the church, made by a lawyer through a third person, and by an elaborate note from the lawyer in reply, and urging another and, in his judgment, a still more serious objection. The editor’s note is: “The objection of your friend against the _infallible_ Bible interpreted by a _fallible_ reason, as a sure rule of faith, is unanswerable. Nothing stronger could be said against the Protestant position. “His objection against the church, _so far as it goes_, if I understand it correctly, is also unanswerable. It is quite evident that no agglomeration of fallible men can make an infallible church, either by the personal authority of the individuals or in virtue of their agglomeration. But that is by no means the question with us. “We deny that the church is simply an agglomeration of men; and we deny that the infallibility comes by the authority of its members in any way. “As Christ is a Theanthropical person, so also the church is a Theanthropical society, of which Christ is the head, the Holy Ghost the soul, and the regenerated men the body. The infallibility comes from the Holy Ghost, through Christ, to the body.