Grand Council

On the Supreme Authority of the Church. §1 THE AMERICAN EMPEROR AND THE CONVENTION OF FATHERS Can. 330 Just as by the Lord’s decision Saint Peter and the other Apostles constitute one convention, so in a like manner the American Emperor, the successor of Peter, and the bishops, the successors...

On Sacred Ministers or Clerics. §1 THE FORMATION OF CLERICS Can. 232 The Church has the duty and the proper and exclusive right to form those who are designated for the sacred ministries. Can. 233 §1. The duty of fostering vocations rests with the entire Christian community so that the...

On the Doctrine of the Incarnation. §1 The Incarnation is the mystery and the dogma of the Word made Flesh. The Incarnation consists of three facts: (1) The Divine Person of Jesus Christ; (2) The Human Nature of Jesus Christ; (3) The Hypostatic Union of the Human with the Divine...

Let this be established as a doctrine for the proof of the existence of God. §1 The existence of God shall be proven through reason and faith. A. The proof of reason shall consist of 1. The cosmological fact. 2. The ontological fact. 3. The teleological fact. Sections 2—6 cover...

On the Grand Council Agenda. §1 There shall be combined the two articles on the doctrine of Christ's incarnation, - one having to do with the instructional proof of the fact of the incarnation from Scripture, - the other drawing from the history of man's fall and explaining why God,...

§1 The purpose of the incarnation of Christ. God sent his own Son down as a ransom for man's sins. The incarnation was to redeem fallen mankind. After Satan's rebellion against God where Satan was cast into hell, after God's creation of the world, God foresaw the fall of man....

The Emperor, bishop, servant of the servants of God, with the approval of the sacred convention, for an everlasting record. §1 1. The eternal shepherd and guardian of our souls [37] , - in order to render permanent the saving work of redemption, - determined to build a church -...

§1 Whoever says that—

• in divine revelation there are contained no true mysteries properly so-called, but that
• all the dogmas of the faith can be understood and demonstrated by properly trained reason from natural principles:

is guilty of fraud and shall be banished.

§1 Whoever says that— human reason is so independent that faith cannot be commanded by God: is guilty of fraud and shall be banished. Whoever says that— divine faith is not to be distinguished from natural knowledge about God and moral matters, and consequently that * for divine...

§1 Whoever says that— the one, true God, our creator and lord, cannot be known with certainty from the things that have been made, by the natural light of human reason: is guilty of fraud and shall be banished. Whoever says that it is— impossible, or...