"Wherefore, by divine and catholic faith all those things are to be believed which are contained in the word of God as found in scripture and tradition, and which are proposed by the church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium." -Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council, Session 3, 24 April 1870. Dogmatic constitution on the catholic faith, Dei Filius, Chapter 3.