The Syllabus of Pius IX.
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§ V.
Errors concerning the Church and her rights.
19. The Church is not a true and perfect Society, entirely free; nor is she endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder; but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church, and the limits within which she may exercise those rights.
Allocution Singulari quadam, Dec. 9th, 1854, etc.
20. The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the Civil Government.
Allocution Meminit, Sept. 20th, 1861.
21. The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion.
Apostolic Letter Multiplices, June 10th, 1851.
22. The obligation by which Catholic teachers and authors are strictly bound, is confined to those things only which are proposed to universal belief as dogmas of Faith by the infallible judgment of the Church.
Letter to the Archbishop of Munich, Dec. 21st, 1863.
23. Roman Pontiffs and Œcumenical Councils have wandered outside the limits of their powers, have usurped the rights of princes, and have even erred in defining matters of faith and morals.
Apostolic Letter Multiplices, June 10th, 1851.
24. The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect.
Apostolic Letter Ad Apostolicæ, August 22hd, 1851.
