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Rh teacher and supreme judge of questions appertaining to faith and morals, can never err. For to us it appears evident, either that there is no supreme judge in an assembly, or that the office belongs to him who presides over the whole; so that, in fact, it is not less certain, to our minds, that the Pontiff speaking ex cathedrâ to the whole Church cannot err, than that the Pontiff presides over the whole Church.'

Suarez is equally explicit: 'Nevertheless, it is a Catholic truth, that the Pontiff defining ex cathedrâ is the rule of faith, which cannot err, when he authoritatively propounds anything to the whole Church, as to be believed of divine faith: such is the teaching