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in the Encyclical Qui pluribus, Nov. 9th, 1846; the second in the Letters Apostolic Multiplices inter, June 10th, 1851.

§ IX.

Errors regarding the Civil Power of the Sovereign Pontiff.

75. The children of the Christian and Catholic Church are divided amongst themselves about the compatibility of the temporal with the spiritual power. Ibid.

76. The abolition of the temporal power of which the Apostolic See is possessed, would contribute in the greatest degree to the liberty and prosperity of the Church.

Allocution Quibus quantisque, April 20th, 1849.

N.B.—Besides these errors, explicitly censured, very many others are implicitly condemned by the doctrine propounded and established, which all Catholics are bound most firmly to hold touching the temporal sovereignty of the Roman Pontiff. This doctrine is clearly stated in the Allocutions Quibus quantisque, April 20th, 1849, and Si semper antea, May 20th, 1850; Letters Apost. Quum Catholica Ecclesia, March 26th, 1860; Allocutions Novos, Sept. 28th, 1860, Jamdudum, March 18th, 1861, and Maxime quidem, June 9th, 1862.

§ X.

Errors having reference to Modern Liberalism.

77. In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only