Chapter 10 Religious Liberty condemned by the popes.

The civil liberty of all these cults propagates the pestilence of indifferenceism.

Pope Pius the 9th

I am going to collect in this chapter, at the risk of repeating myself, the texts of the main

condemnations of religious liberty in the 19th century, in order that you may see clearly

what has been condemned and why the

popes have condemned it. Number 1. Pius I. Pius I and his encyclical Quote Aliquantum.

Letter of March 10, 1791 to the French bishops of the National Assembly.

The necessary effect of the Constitution decreed by the Assembly is to annihilate the Catholic

religion.

With it, the obedience due to the kings.

It is with this purpose that there is established as a right of man in society, that absolute liberty, which not only

assures the right of not being disturbed about one's religious opinions, but grants besides

that license to think, to speak, to write, and even to have printed with impunity in matters

of religion everything that the most unregulated imagination can suggest, a scandalous

right that nevertheless seems to the assembly to result from the natural equality and freedom

of all men.

What could there be that is more senseless than to establish among men this equality and

this unrestrained liberty, which seems to stifle reason, the most precious

gift that nature has given to man, and the only one that distinguishes him from the animals.

Pius V. Pius V. Posseum diuturnas

Apostolic Letter to the Bishop of Troy's France, condemning the freedom of cults and of conscience

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