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Rh 'It absolutely cannot be said, that the means necessary for the Supreme Pontiff in the investigation of truth have been neglected by him, even though he should be supposed to have defined anything ex cathedra, without first seeking the judgment of others.'

'The privilege of infallibility, when the Supreme Pontiff defines anything ex cathedra, is to be ascribed not to those whom he has previously consulted, but to the Roman Pontiff himself.

'Inasmuch as the truth and certainty of those things which are defined "ex cathedra" depend on the authority and infallibility of the Supreme Pontiff, it is not necessarily requisite, that he should first consult these (counsellors) rather than others, this rather than that body, concerning the matter which he is about to define ex cathedra.'

From all that has been said, three things are beyond question; first, that the privilege of infallibility in the head of the Church, neither by its possession nor by