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 94 Gallican Declaration was never condemned at Rome. Here is what Pope Benedict XIV., 1748, said about it:—

A striking testimony to the powerful effect of Bossuet's treatise when it first appeared is that of his learned opponent, Cardinal Orsi:—

Bossuet's personal conviction on Infallibility was the doctrine of the fourth Article of the Assembly's Declaration. He held that it requires the consent of the Church to make a papal decision on faith unalterable. He declared that whatever men may assert in theory, when it comes to practice, the final decision will inevitably depend on the consent of the Universal Church. This, says Cardinal Bausset, is exactly what occurs whenever the Ultramontanes are forced within their last entrenchments. Infallibility of the Pope ends by being only that of the Church.