Pope Nicholas I to confirm his election to the
Patriarchate of Constantinople, 112.

Plebescitum, Roman, explained, 146.

Plutarch declares: "No nations without priests and altars," 309.

Poe, Edgar Allan, invokes Mary, 191.

Pontiff, Supreme, is commander-in-chief of the Church, 117.

Pope is Vicar of Christ, 129;
father and doctor of Christians, chief pastor of the Church, 130;
confirms or rejects decrees of councils, 131;
a prisoner in his own house, 145.

Popes succeed to Peter's supremacy, 108;
send Apostolic missionaries, 115;
go to confession regularly, 122;
oracles of the early Church, 128, et seq.,
recognized in all ages as infallible teachers, 132.

Prayer for unity, 5;
and Sacraments--means of sanctification, 20;
a duty binding in conscience 20;
of Jesus Christ, always heard 126;
for the dead, consoling, 225.

Priest, Catholic obliged to read word of God, 94;
ambassador of God, 387;
dispenser of God's graces, 390;
titles, 391;
physician of souls, 396;
must be man of prayer, 398.

Priestly obligations, 395;
stands before God, intercessor for his people, 396;
experience in sacred ministry, 367, et seq.

Primacy of St. Peter, 95;
promised, 98, et seq.;
and supremacy similarly demonstrated, 109.

Progress, Modern, and the Church, 59;
intellectual fostered by the Church, 60;
cannot destroy the Church, 59.

Prophecies of Christ fulfilled by spread of Christianity, 30.

Protestant sects make no claim to Catholicity, 32;
Episcopalians sometimes usurp the title of Catholic, 33;
inconsistency between teaching and practice, 82, et seq.

Protestantism not traceable to Apostolic times, 47;
and Arianism paralleled, 55, et seq.

Protestants differ in belief among themselves, 9;
sects do not possess unity, 9;
combat the perpetual virginity of Mary, 169, et seq.;
their objections answered, 169, et seq.;
burned Catholic churches, 251;
abolished confirmation, 285.

Puritans effected changes in Maryland, 237;
persecuted others for conscience's sake, 251.

Ranke quoted on Spanish Inquisition, 256.

Raphael Archangel and young Tobias, 155.

Real presence founded on scripture, 288;
proved from the New Testament, 288, et seq.

Reformation of morals effected, 26.

Reformers made a babel of the Bible, 86;
and sacred images, 198;
guilty of violence towards others, 250.

Regeneration, necessary to all, 272.

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