"The end of Christian life being' supernatural, it is evident that the means of attaining: it must be likewise supernatural. And so our Lord has provided by instituting the Apostolic Hierarchy as the agency of faith through which salvation shall be wrought to the end of time."
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Sermon of the Right Rev. James Vincent Cleary, S. T. D. Bishop of Kingston on the supernatural agency of Bishops (1887)
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James Vincent Cleary
James Vincent Cleary (18 September 1828 – 24 February 1898) was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church.
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