The doctrine of papal infallibility stated and vindicated; with an appendix on the question of civil allegiance.

68 p.; 21 cm. `Although the bishop's delicate health had prevented him from attending the first Vatican Council, in 1869-70, he was none the less a prolific and profound writer on the contentious issue of infallibility. On 15 May 1869 he published a 50-page pastoral letter explaining the significance of Aeterni Patris, the bull of indiction convoking the council. This was followed by a 33-page pastoral, issued on 2 Feb. 1870, defending the church's historical claim to infallibility and answering five principal objections to the council itself. Despite their length and scholarly nature, these two letters were read aloud in every church in the diocese. Lynch, who had pleaded with Walsh to join him in Rome for the council sessions, was very impressed by his writings. In June 1870 he told his former vicar general to feel free in the future to speak on behalf of the entire Canadian church whenever writing on infallibility. Walsh's last public word on the subject came in 1875 with a 65-page vindication of the doctrine of papal infallibility coupled with a reply to a pamphlet by William Ewart Gladstone which questioned the civil allegiance of Catholics in light of the recent promulgation of the doctrine. This was Walsh's most brilliant polemic and his closest brush with purely political controversy.' (Michael Power, in Dictionary of Canadian biography) Good, side sewn, in edgeworn printed tan wrapper.…