The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-02-10
Our s'ErrOrs."

The New York Evening Post has
been summarizing the PoPe's syllabus.
Among the "errOrs' Of the age de-
nOuuced in the Syllabus and paragraph
ed in the Post are the following:
XIII. That the method by which
theology was studied by the ancient
scholastic doctors is by no means In
accord with the wants Of our times and
the progress Of science. sz
XIV. That every man ls free to em-
brace and profess whatever religion he,
in the light Of reason, regards as true.
XVI. Phat men may And 3 way Of
salvation 10 any religion. t
XVII. That at least there is good
hope for the salvation Of those who
are not found In the true church Of
Christ. .sE ~.
XVIII. That Protestantism Is but
another form of the true Christian re-
ligion, in which, as well as in the
Catholic Church, it is possible to please
God er
XXIV. That it is not in the prov
inCe of the church to apply force, nor
does it possess any temporal power,
direct Or indirect. .
xxx. That the imynunities of the
Church and Of ecclesiastical persons
have their origin in the civil law.
.XXXV. That nothing prevents the
removal, by the act of the General
Council, or Of the peoples of the church,
of the Supreme P0ntifcate from the
Bishop pand city of Rome to another
Bishop and another city.
XIII. That in conflicts between the
civil and the ecclesiastical law, the
former should prevail.
Xiv That the civil authorities
may NEEDLE with things which con-
Germ religion, morals and spiritual dis
ciBline; may judge upon pastoral in
structiOns officially given as rule Of
conscience, or make DEGREES upon the
administration of the divine sacra-
ments and the deposition necessary for
receiving them.
XIV. That the control of public
schools, in which the youth of any
Christian State are taught, with per-
chance the exception OF Episcopal
seminaries, can and ought to rest with
the civil authorities, and that so ex-
lclusiVely that no other authorities be
permitted to meddle with the course of
instruction, the discipline of the schOl-
ars, the comforting Of degrees, or the
selection and approval of the teachers.
LV. That the Church and State
ought to be separated.
o. LXV. That it must not be believed
that Christ raised marriage to the dig
nifty of a sacrament.
LXXIII. That the force Of a mere
civil contract can constitute true mar
riage among Christians; that contract
of marriage between Christians is not
always a sacrament, or that there
is any contract at all if the sacrament
is excluded. ..- 9 ar 1929
LXXVI. That the abolition of the
temporal power of the Apostolic See
would greatly Conduce to the freedom
| and prosperity OF the church.
LXXIV. That causes which are
strictly matrimonial, and concern mat
rimOnial duties or relations, fall
within the province of civil tribunals.
/ LXXVIII. That it is PrsisewOrthy
in certain countries of Catholic name
to provide that men who emigrate
thither shall be free to worship accord.
ing to their own belief.
LXXIX. That it is false that civil
liberty in matters Of worship, and the
full power of openly and publicly de
claring any convictions, COnduce to
the consumption Of the morals and the
minds of the people, and to the pro-
pagatiOn of the pest Of indiferentism.