Those wretches tainted with Catalog the error of Indifferentism Loving Letters and Modernism hold that of Guidance dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative; that is, to the that it must adapt itself to the Catholic Faithful, varying necessities of the from the times and the varying dispositions of Holy Fathers souls, since it is not contained in an unchangeable revelation, but is, by its very nature, meant to accommodate itself to the life of man.

Pope Pius XI

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