The Pope and the Council

The proclamation of Papal Infallibility at the First Vatican Council in 1870 took no one by surprise. For twenty years before the Council convened, Pope Pius IX had been hinting that he would make an article of faith what the Vatican had been claiming for almost a thousand years: That papal pronouncements are infallibly protected from error. This book is a compendium of the “Letters of Janus” that appeared in the German newspaper <i>Allgemeine Zeitung</i> in 1869, arguing that the Vatican’s claims of Infallibility were based on forged documents, rewritten history, and a tendency to silence any and all questioning voices within the Church and Christian governments. This new edition, the first since 1873, is not a holograph reprint but has been rescanned and completely reset, with a modern index and table of contents.