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The Faith of Our Fathers: Being a Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

In The Faith of Our Fathers, James Gibbons presents a plain and practical exposition and vindication of the principal tenets of the Catholic Church. He briefly defines Catholic doctrines and practices agreed upon by Protestants, and launches into discussion of the practices and beliefs in which Catholicism and Protestantism differ. Gibbons writes with the intention of establishing the truths of...

connected with the main stem, and all draw their nourishment from the parent stock. The Church, in fine, is called in Scripture by the beautiful title of bride or spouse of Christ,1 and the Christian law admits only of one wife. In fact, our common sense alone, apart from revelation, is sufficient to convince us that God could not be the author of various opposing systems of religion. God is essentially one. He is Truth itself. How could the God of truth affirm, for instance, to one body of Christians
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