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-- Ibid. It does not appertain exclusively to the power of ecclesiastical jurisdiction by right, proper and innate, to direct the teaching of theological questions. ; Allocution 68.

; Encyclical "Quanto conficiamur," Aug. 10, 1863.59. In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.–Allocution "Nemo vestrum," July 26, 1855.78. -- Allocution 78. ; Letter to the King of Sardinia, Sept. 9, 1852; Allocutions 74.

Authority is nothing else but numbers and the sum total of material forces.–Ibid.61.

All the truths of religion proceed from the innate strength of human reason; hence reason is the ultimate standard by which man can and ought to arrive at the knowledge of all truths of every kind.–Ibid. -- Ibid.

deceiving many with astute frauds, finally has arrived at the point where it comes forth impetuously from its hiding places and triumphs as a powerful master.

-- Ibid.

In the books of the Old and the New Testament there are contained mythical inventions, and Jesus Christ is Himself a myth.

-- Allocution "Nunquam fore," Dec. 15, 1856; Encyclical 27.

Nor are things any better or circumstances calmer in America, where some regions are so hostile to Catholics that their governments seem to deny by their actions the Catholic faith they claim to profess.

There exists no Supreme, all-wise, all-provident Divine Being, distinct from the universe, and God is identical with the nature of things, and is, therefore, subject to changes. Yet today so much of what was anathema has been reversed and tolerated, even accepted. -- Encyclical 18. In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails.–Ibid.43.

37. In force of a merely civil contract there may exist between Christians a real marriage, and it is false to say either that the marriage contract between Christians is always a sacrament, or that there is no contract if the sacrament be excluded.–Ibid. If those who would have been able to avert such a deadly scourge had only had more faith in the supreme Pastors of the Church!

All the dogmas of the Christian religion are indiscriminately the object of natural science or philosophy, and human reason, enlightened solely in an historical way, is able, by its own natural strength and principles, to attain to the true science of even the most abstruse dogmas; provided only that such dogmas be proposed to reason itself as its object. The civil power may prevent the prelates of the Church and the faithful from communicating freely and mutually with the Roman pontiff. 8.

-- Ibid.

But anyone who knows the nature, desires and intentions of the sects, whether they be called masonic or bear another name, and compares them with the nature the systems and the vastness of the obstacles by which the Church has been assailed almost everywhere, cannot doubt that the present misfortune must mainly be imputed to the frauds and machinations of these sects. The canons of the Council of Trent, which anathematize those who dare to deny to the Church the right of establishing diriment impediments, either are not dogmatic or must be understood as referring to such borrowed power.–Ibid.71. White Pope Pius IX reigned for 32 years because he completely obeyed his general, Peter Beckx....In July, 1870, Vatican Council I declared him INFALLIBLE and in September of that same year he lost the Papal States.

The injustice of an act when successful inflicts no injury on the sanctity of right.–Allocution "Jamdudum cernimus," March 18, 1861.62. -- Allocutions 46. The form of solemnizing marriage prescribed by the Council of Trent, under pain of nullity, does not bind in cases where the civil law lays down another form, and declares that when this new form is used the marriage shall be valid. The entire government of public schools in which the youth- of a Christian state is educated, except (to a certain extent) in the case of episcopal seminaries, may and ought to appertain to the civil power, and belong to it so far that no other authority whatsoever shall be recognized as having any right to interfere in the discipline of the schools, the arrangement of the studies, the conferring of degrees, in the choice or approval of the teachers.

-- Allocution 2. -- Ibid.

1. -- Allocutions 77. The injustice of an act when successful inflicts no injury on the sanctity of right. ss pius ix quanta cura – syllabus syllabus rÉsumÉ renfermant les principales erreurs de notre temps qui sont signalÉes dans les allocutions consistoriales, encycliques et autres lettres apostoliques de n. t. s. p. le pape pie ix. -- 31.

No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter, and all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure. By the law of nature, the marriage tie is not indissoluble, and in many cases divorce properly so called may be decreed by the civil authority.–Ibid. All action of God upon man and the world is to be denied.

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