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The Syllabus of Pius IX.
§ III.
Indifferentism. Latitudinarianism.
15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
Allocution Maxima quidem, June 9th, 1851.
16. Man may in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.
Ibid., and Encyclical Qui pluribus, Nov. 9th, 1846.
17. Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.
Ibid., and Encyclical Quanto conficiamur, August 17th, 1863, etc.
18. Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.
Encyclical Noscitis, Dec. 8th, 1849.
§ IV.
Socialism, Communism, Secret Societies, Biblical Societies, Clerico-liberal Societies.
Pests of this kind are frequently reprobated in the severest terms in the Encyclical Qui pluribus, Nov. 9th, 1846; Allocution Quibus quantisque, April 20th, 1849; Encyclical Noscitis et nobiscum, Dec. 8th, 1849; Allocution Singulari quadam, Dec. 9th, 1854; Encyclical Quanto conficiamur, August 10th, 1863.
