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Pius IX, 1846-1878

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  1. The Letter, "Gravissimas inter," to the Archbishop of Munich-Freising, Dec. 11, 1862 (Prop. 9-11).

  2. The Encyclical Letter, "Quanto conficiamur moerore," Aug. 10, 1863 (Prop. 17, 58).

  3. The Encyclical Letter, "Incredibili," Sept. 17, 1863 (Prop. 26).

  4. The Letter, "Tuas libenter," to the Archbishop of Munich-Freising, Dec. 21, 1863 (Prop. 9, 10, 12-14, 22, 33).

  5. The Letter, "Cum non sine," to the Archbishop of Friburg, July 14, 1864 (Prop. 47, 48).

  6. The Letter, "Singularis Nobisque," to the Bishop of Montreal (?), Sept. 29, 1864 (Prop. 32).

B. Syllabus1

Comprising the particular errors of our age, which are noted in consistorial Allocutions, in Encyclical and other Apostolic Letters of His Holiness, our Lord Pope Pius IX2

Sec. 1. Pantheism, Naturalism, and Absolute Rationalism

1701. 1. No supreme, all wise, and all provident divine Godhead exists, distinct from this world of things, and God is the same as the nature of things and, therefore, liable to changes; and God comes into being in man and in the universe, and all things are God and they have the same substance of God; and God is one and the same as the world, and therefore, also, spirit is one and the same with matter, necessity with liberty, the true with the false, the good with the evil, and the just with the unjust (26).3

1702. 2. All action of God upon men and the world must be denied (26).

1703. 3. Human reason, with absolutely no regard to God, is the only judge of the true and the false, the good and the evil; it is a law unto itself and is, by its own natural powers, sufficient to provide for the good of individuals and of peoples (26).

1704. 4. All truths of religion flow from the natural power of human reason; hence, reason is the chief norm by which man can and should come to a knowledge of all truths of whatever kind (1, 17, 26).

  1. ASS 3 (1867) 168 ff.; Aexq IX ff.; AP III 701 ff. ↩

  2. In order that the true meaning of this Syllabus may be understood, one must refer to the context of the documents from which the individual propositions have been excerpted [cf. the letter of Cardinal Antonelli quoted above (page 482, note); ASS 3, 167: L. Choupin, "Valeur des décisions doctrinales et disciplinaires du Saint-Siège, 3 ed. 1929, 187 ff.]. ↩

  3. These numbers refer to the INDEX "of the Acts of PIUS IX, from which the Syllabus has been excerpted" [see above n. 1700]. ↩