Index. 401 temple of faith, 10; her creed identical with past ages, 1 1 ; faith and government similar, 1 1 ; does not meddle with political tenets, 10; teaches one faith everywhere, 10; explains and declares truths implicitly believed, 15; authority to decide disputes, 15; holiness an attribute of, 16; a society, 16; established for man's sanctification, 16; only one founded by Christ, 6; inculcates valuable lessons of divine perfection, 16; [421] invites to a holy life, 17; enforces the inculcation of divine precepts, 18; affords motives and means of sanctification, 20; encourages communion with God, 20; a watchful mother — supplies us at each step, 21; fruitful in saints, 22; still produces saints and apostles, 22; has her martyrs in our day, 22; still numbers confessors in her ranks, 22; saves sinners, 24; refuge of the poor, 24; her inheritance — the afflicted, 25; possesses means of reform, 27; cosmopolitan, 30; Catholic in name and reality, 34; gaining numerically at present, 35; apostolical, 38; built upon foundation of the Apostles, 38; derives her origin from the Apostles, 48; indestructible, 5 1 ; and the barbarous hordes, 53; and Mohammedanism, 53;