The Light of the East March 1945

There is a golden mean between the laissez faire of the Liberals and the tout-faire of the Totalitarians between the conception of the State as an occasionally needed but never welcome restorer of the peace and that of the State as the'one planner of all our activities and purveyor of our needs. [...] First on the list of the 159 bishops present at the first session we read the name of Cyril Archbishop of Alexadria " who also took the place of the most holy and venerable Archbishop of the Church of the Romans Celestine ". The Acts of Ephesus state several times that Cyril is the Pope's locum tenens (6)*. [...] had the chief role against me at the Council of Ephesus." (9)* The proclamation of the purpose of the assembly and the reading of the Nicene Creed were followed at the instance of Acacius of Melitene by the reading of the letter to Nestrius from Cyril (10)*. [...] He said : " It is doubful to no one indeed it has been known to all ages that the holy and blessed Peter the Piince and Head of the Apostles the Pillar of the Faith and the Foundation of the Catolic Church received the Keys of the Kindom from Our Lord Jesus Christ the Saviour of the human race and that to him was given the power to loose and to bind sins who up to this time and al [...] It is clear that in the mind of the Roman legates and of the Fathers of the Council — for there is not the slightest shadow of evidence of any protest on their part — the common belief of the Church (1) admitted in the Papacy a primacy of jurisdiction over the Catholic Church and (2) that it was a prerogative by Divine Right in virtue of the Pope's filling the office of St.