Catholics maintained, and always have and always will maintain, that a divine revelation necessitates a divine interpreter.

Catholics resisted, and always will resist, on the ground of its incompetency, a human authority applied to the interpretation of the contents of a divinely-revealed religion.

They consider such an authority, whether of the individual or the state, in religious matters an intrusion.

Catholics insist, without swerving, upon believing in religion none but God.

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