The First Vatican Council (1869–1870): Dogmatic Constitutions
The two dogmatic constitutions of the twentieth ecumenical council: Dei Filius on the Catholic faith (Session III, 24 April 1870), on God the Creator, revelation, faith, and faith and reason, with its canons; and Pastor Aeternus on the Church of Christ (Session IV, 18 July 1870), on the primacy of Peter and his successors and the infallible teaching of the Roman Pontiff. Latin text with the English translation printed by Vincent McNabb, O.P. (1907).
Contents
Source: Both constitutions complete, with their canons. Collated word by word against Acta et decreta sacrosancti oecumenici Concilii Vaticani (Collectio Lacensis VII, Freiburg: Herder, 1892), archive.org actaetdecretasac00unse (OCR), which corrected 28 transcription errors (e.g. 'quam meno principum' → 'quam nemo principum', 'evelli' → 'evehi', 'a Chisto' → 'a Christo'); orthographic differences between the printings (umquam/unquam, eius/ejus) are left as transcribed. Dei Filius keeps the inline scripture and council references of the Acta Sanctae Sedis text; Pastor aeternus keeps its printed notes as footnotes. The Wikisource transcriber's source note is not reproduced. Not included: the opening decrees and the profession of faith of Sessions I–II, and the dating clause 'Datum Romae in publica Sessione…', which these printings omit. · Dei Filius (prologue, four chapters, canons) and Pastor Aeternus (prologue, four chapters), with the book's notes as footnotes and the attestation of Joseph Fessler, Bishop of St. Pölten, Secretary of the Council. The translation is the English published by Archbishop H. E. Manning in 1871 (The Vatican Council and its Definitions; Petri Privilegium), whose wording it follows (checked against archive.org thevaticancounci00mannuoft) (e.g. 'Moreover, that the supreme power of teaching is also included in the apostolic primacy'). McNabb's preface 'To the Reader' and the chronology are not included.