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130 These things being noted, in order to remove ambiguity, I assume that the doctors in their writing designate by the Roman church that church of which the Saviour said to Peter: "On this rock I will build my church" (see ). The holy writers and the Decretals speak of it as the Roman church, Dist. 21: 3 [Friedberg, 1: 70], 24: 1, capp. 9, 14 [Friedberg, 1: 969, 970]. And in the Clementines, de Jurejurando [Friedberg, 2: 1147], it is said: "The Romans, princes, professors of the orthodox faith, venerate with warm faith and pure devotion the holy Roman church, whose head is Christ, our Saviour, and the Roman pontiff, the Saviour's vicar." And in the Sextus it is said: "Our alma mater, the church" [Friedberg, 2: 1106], and in the Extravagante of Boniface VIII, "The holy Roman church." And the same is true of the other statements made in other places and alleged above.

In regard to these follies of the Unlearned—indoctorum—I find these points: (1) The pope is the head of the holy Roman church. (2) The college of cardinals is the body of the holy Roman church. (3) The pope is manifestly and truly