Word: divino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Father Joseph G. H. Barry, advocating reunion with an institution known as the Roman Catholic Church. " This, " said the Reverend Father, " is what it appears to me we can accept as a basis of negotiation: 1) A primacy of St. Peter and of the Bishops of Rome, jure divino (by divine law). 2) A jurisdiction differing in extent at different times, but in all cases allocated to the Bishop of Rome jure ecclesiastico (by church law). 3) An infallibility which is the expression of the mind of the Church through the Pope as its organ of statement and which...