Church teaches one God, 1; unity of, 5; government requires unity, 6; needs visible head, 6; a kingdom, 6; Christ founded only one, 6; Christ’s spiritual kingdom, 7; government compared to that of state, 7; of Christ, a sheepfold, 7; likened to the sheepfold, 7; one chief pastor, one chief shepherd, 7; likened to human body, 7; compared to a vine, 8; bride or spouse of Christ, 8; unity as taught by common sense, 8; harmony, 8; needs common doctrine, 9; uniform government, 9; of England ruled by sovereign, 9; alone possesses unity, 10; temple of faith, 10; her creed identical with past ages, 11; faith and government similar, 11; does not meddle with political tenets, 10; teaches one faith everywhere, 10; explains and declares truths implicitly believed, 15; authority to decide disputes, 15; holiness an attribute of, 16; a society, 16; established for man’s sanctification, 16; only one founded by Christ, 6; inculcates valuable lessons of divine perfection, 16; invites to a holy life, 17; enforces the inculcation of divine precepts, 18; affords motives and means of sanctification, 20; encourages communion with God, 20; a watchful mother—supplies us at each step, 21; fruitful in saints, 22; still produces saints and apostles, 22; has her martyrs in our day, 22; still numbers confessors in her ranks, 22; saves sinners, 24; refuge of the poor, 24; her inheritance—the afflicted, 25; possesses means of reform, 27; cosmopolitan, 30; Catholic in name and reality, 34; gaining numerically at present, 35; apostolical, 38; built upon foundation of the Apostles, 38; derives her origin from the Apostles, 48; indestructible, 51; and the barbarous hordes, 53; and Mohammedanism, 53; and the Arian heresy, 53, et seq.; and the Irish people, 54; and state, 57; her relation to other religious bodies, 58; does not need temporal power for preservation, 58; and modern progress, 59; benefited by scientific appliances and inventions, 59; fosters intellectual progress, 60; encourages scientific investigation, 60; science indebted to her—has no fear from human liberty, 61; outlasts all other governments, 61, et seq.; authority comes from God, 65; her teaching directed by the Holy Ghost, 65; her infallibility proved from Scripture, 66, et seq.; Christ’s promise in favor of the, 70, 73; her doctrines incapable of reform, 73; her doctrinal decrees irrevocable, 76; divinely appointed teacher of revelation, 76, 77; guardian and depository of the Bible, 90; requires a head, 97; unity maintained by supreme head, 77; only one founded by Christ, 100; built on Peter, 100; revealed Word of God her Magna Charta, 124; exhorts all to honor Mary, 187; her practice proves existence of purgatory, 214, et seq.; Fathers of the—unanimous in praying for the dead, 217; has always promoted civil liberty, 226;