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These are the first three entries in the first volume directory, on Faith, Revelation, and the Bible.
| Document | Description | Background |
| Qui
Pluribus EWTN Library |
Faith and Religion, Encyclical of Pope Pius IX, November 9, 1846 |
In the first year of his pontificate,
Pope Pius IX met the challenge of the Rationalists
who claimed that faith and reason are not only separate but in conflict
with one another. They denied the truth and the authority of Divine
Revelation. The rationalist problem would continue through the Nineteenth
Century, especially in the light of exaggerated claims made in the name
of the developing sciences of that age. However, the Church also rejected
the opposite extreme, Fideism,
a distrust of human reason which may lead to “fundamentalism.”
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| Quanta
Cura EWTN Library |
Condemning Current Errors, Encyclical of Pope Pius IX, December 8, 1864 |
In a time of increasing tension and
conflict, when the secularist forces of Liberalism, Socialism, and Freemasonry
were determined to destroy the Church, Pius IX issued Quanta Cura.
Liberalism set up the idea of the free individual as the measure of
all truth and sought to subject the Church to state control. Behind
this policy was a rejection of Divine Revelation and hence the supernatural
truths and divine authority of Catholic Christianity.
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| Syllabus
of Errors EWTN Library |
Eighty Errors on Revealed Truth and Political Theory Corrected, Pope Pius IX, December 8, 1864 |
On the same day as the publication of
Quanta Cura,
Pius IX listed eighty specific errors in the realm of revealed truth
and political theory. The freedom of the Church and her divine authority
on earth are affirmed in the face of forces which would soon declare
war on the Church and make the Pope the “prisoner
of the Vatican.”
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Each entry refers to a single Vatican document.
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Document column For each document, there is a link to that document, generally in the Vatican’s official English translation. This column also indicates the library from which that Vatican document was obtained. In a few cases, where I could not find a reliable edition of the document online, I placed the notation Still Looking. |
Description column The document’s subject, author, and date. All the Vatican documents are presented here, in sequence by date. The site visitor can easily follow the development of Catholic teaching in each subject area. |
Background column Each background statement, written by Msgr. Peter J. Elliott, provides some perspective to introduce the document. In some cases I have added new documents that do not appear in Précis of Official Catholic Teaching. I wrote the background statements for these. On the twelve subject area headings these are identified as exceptions above the word “background.” The site visitor is invited to peruse the background statements to identify the document that seems most appropriate. |
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