"I also profess that there are truly and properly seven sacraments of the new law, instituted by Jesus Christ, our Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though. not all for every one: to wit—baptism, confirmation, the eucharist, penance, extreme• unction, order, and matrimony; and that they confer grace; and that of these baptism, confirmation, and order cannot be repeated without sacrilege. I also receive and admit the received and approved ceremonies of the Catholic church, used in the solemn admin istration of the aforesaid sacraments.
" I embrace and receive all and every one of the things which have been defined and declared in the holy council of Trent concerning original sin and justification.
" I profess, likewise, that in the mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and pro pitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood; which conversion the Catholic church calleth transubstantiation. I also con fess that under either kind alone Christ is received whole and entire, and a true sacra ment.
" I constantly hold that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.
" Likewise, that the saints reigning together with Christ are to be honored and invo cated, and that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics are to be had in veneration.
"I most firmly assert that the images of Christ, of the mother of God, ever virgin. and also of other saints, ought to be had and retained, and that due honor and veneration. are to be given them.
" I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the church, and. that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people.
"I acknowledge the holy Catholic, apostolic, Roman church for the mother and mistress of all churches; and I promise true obedience to the bishop of Rome, successor of St, Peter, prince of the apostles, and vicar of Jesus Christ.
" I likewise undoubtingly receive and profess all other things delivered, defined, and . declared, particularly by the holy council of Trent; and I condemn, reject, and anathe matize all things contrary thereto, and all heresies which the church bath condemned, rejected, and anathematized.
"I, N. N., do at this present freely profess, and sincerely hold this true Catholic faith, out of which no one can be saved; and I promise most constantly to retain and confess the same entire and inviolate, by God's assistance, to the end of my life." In addition to these articles, the Roman Catholic church has, since the compilatiox of the creed of Pius V., defined certain further doctrines in the controversy on grace, which arose from the teaching of Jansenius (q.v.); still more recently that of the immacu late conception of the blessed Virgin Mary (q.v.); and a still more comprehensive body of articles in the memorable Syllabus issued by pope Pius IX., and in the decrees of the Vatican council, celebrated under the presidency of the same pontiff. The doctrinal decisions of this latter council are divided into two sections, the first, " on the Catholic faith," the second on the church of Christ." Each section contains a " scheme of doc trine," in which the heads of belief, and the grounds on which they rest, are explained;. and to each is appended a body of " canons, in which the several points are summa rized, stated in precise theological language, and defined as articles of Catholic belief. In the scheme " upon the church of Christ" are contained, in " an additional chapter,"' the celebrated declarations regarding the infallibility of the pope. See Omnium GDzaoilii Vatieani Doeumentornin Colleen° (8vo, Paderborniie, 1873).
The details of the discipline of the Roman Catholic church would be out of place here. But it may be observed that the Roman Catholic church leans toward asceticism, as regards the practice of fasting, with less rigor thau' the Greek and oriental commun ions; while, on the contrary, as to the celibacy of the clergy (q.v.), her law is much more stringent; all the clergy of the Roman Catholic church in the greater orders, including sub-deacons, being so strictly bound to celibacy that a marriage contracted after ordina tion is invalid by the church law. See ORDERS. In all that regards the general disci-, pline of the whole church, only the pope or a general council is considered to have power to legislate; national or provincial synods for the discipline of a kingdom or province, and bishops for that of their own dioceses.