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Rh If it be said that this has not been defined and proposed by the Church as de fide, it may be answered first, that many truths of Divine revelation have not been defined. All that is defined is indeed de fide, but not all that is de fide has been defined. The revelation of Christianity extends far beyond the definitions which, in condemnation of error, the Church has made progressively from age to age. The infallibility of the successor of Peter, speaking ex cathedrâ, as universal teacher, was not contradicted till the preludes of the so-called Reformation began to work. And wheresoever the contradiction has gained a hold, a decline of faith has followed. The events of the last century in France issued naturally from