, 30;
Catholic in name and reality, 34;
gaining numerically at present, 35;
apostolical, 38;
built upon foundation of the Apostles, 38;
derives her origin from the Apostles, 48;
indestructible, 51;
and the barbarous hordes, 53;
and Mohammedanism, 53;
and the Arian heresy, 53, et seq.;
and the Irish people, 54;
and state, 57;
her relation to other religious bodies, 58;
does not need temporal power for preservation, 58;
and modern progress, 59;
benefited by scientific appliances and inventions, 59;
fosters intellectual progress, 60;
encourages scientific investigation, 60;
science indebted to her--has no fear from human liberty, 61;
outlasts all other governments, 61, et seq.;
authority comes from God, 65;
her teaching directed by the Holy Ghost, 65;
her infallibility proved from Scripture, 66, et seq.;
Christ's promise in favor of the, 70, 73;
her doctrines incapable of reform, 73;
her doctrinal decrees irrevocable, 76;
divinely appointed teacher of revelation, 76, 77;
guardian and depository of the Bible, 90;
requires a head, 97;
unity maintained by supreme head, 77;
only one founded by Christ, 100;
built on Peter, 100;
revealed Word of God her Magna Charta, 124;
exhorts all to honor Mary, 187;
her practice proves existence of purgatory, 214, et seq.;
Fathers of the--unanimous in praying for the dead, 217;
has always promoted civil liberty, 226;
defends civil rights and liberties, 231;
conflict with state, 231;
and American Independence, 240;
desires no governmental aid, 246;
does not sanction persecution or bloodshed, 249;
disavows the excesses of the Spanish Inquisition, 258;
her practice and the procedure of the Supreme Court compared, 130;
organization--American system of, 246;
her doctrine on unbaptized infants, 273;
perpetuates Christ's work, 341;
grants indulgences, 376.

Churches--earliest Christian were Catacombs, 137;
fallible--consequences, 70.

Clement of Alexandria bears witness to spread of Christianity, 31.

Clerical celibacy--necessity, 399;
propriety and advantages of, 402.

Clement VII, Pope, refused to sanction divorce of Henry VIII, 414.

Communion with God encouraged by Church, 20.

Communion under both forms given by Christ, 300.

Communion under form of bread, 303, et seq.

Communion of Saints--a comforting thought, 160.

Confession of sins obligatory, 345;
various vie