PAGE TWO THE CR|TERION,OCTOBER tf, Ito .SYLLABT]SOF ERRORS'EXPLAINED 1\o need for concernover Catholic President Thlr anrlyrir of church.rfrlc D( slnce the beglnning ol his statement of number 55 would "Btatements "The of the recent prlnclples ls from lhc Oclober pontificate, It ls a kind of index readi Chureh must never DoDes. I{e atates elearly that the ,uct whilo not declolvo, rre Octiniiety ,,does issue of Tha Crtholic Edsce. or table ol contents, and read be separated from the stato and that error has no rights moro fgvorsble." for, publlshed by Joscph F. straight through ls somervhat lhe stato from tho Church." That not imply r right or duty to .,The Wlgner, Inc., 43 Prrk Pl., Ncw hard to digest. Even tle Pope of nunrber ?? would read: Condltlonr suppresserror." "i'arv rr. bettcr "Go4 York. The author dlrcclr thr called it meat needing to Catholic Chureh must be estatr- himseU," statesthe pope, for calm .xphnrllon .."permits Instituto of Adull Educaflon In be cooked.tt lished to the exclusion oi all error and evll.tt others,t' ,,auU. fhc Piltsburgh dioccsc. Each of the 80 proposltlons ol lhc roaron lr that the He wrote: rellglout.llborrllsm "Sllll the Syllabus ls an index refer- Neilher of lhese contrary state. ol the l0th lcg hrs Hc glvsn io 8y MSGR. CARL HENSTER c-eotury hal mcn, ence to some enc)'clical or other ments is the correct vel.sion ol olmost completely or lh. human disapperrod auihorlflu, rny Fspal pronouncenrent issued bY Caiholic teaching. and that, theieford, uncondllloncd It- lr lenerul, commrnd Pope Pius IX In whlch the con. - csslor for the CathoI6 to prov.nf Thus the Church does not teach rellglour .rror ar domned crror ic fully discussed C.hprcf to explaln things morc ihat always, everywhere, and morul rvll." end the reasons givcn for its con- obJoctively,', rrThe without exception lt must bo general convlctlon ol demnation. Onc nlght ,,the accorded a privileged status and rdd, too, that lt h men," add$ Plus XII, Chris. thus number 80, rvhicl. much moro Fro- that ol.her religions mBy nevcr be opportune tor tho tian conscience, the rource! of foundly shockcd public opinion popes-of placed on an equal footing wiih our day to dlstingulsh revelation and the practice ol tho outside ltaly, aspaclally in Eng- truo the Catlrolic religion, from false ldear of liberty Church know nothing of any sucb Iand and tle United States, is rnd progress than ln the hecilL commandment." drorvn from tlte papal alloculion Coorcion In religlon deyr when tho prpacy wts ltr cotr. known in Latin as .Iamdudurn bannsd by Leo Xlll rtrnt_d.anfer ol bebg ongulled by Supprculont of crror Cernimus, given r\Iareh 18, 1861. tno. ttdtt wavo of 10th century not final rfandard The condemned propositlon In hls Sncyclicnl Immortale antl'cloricalism. "The Dci, Nor'. 1., 1885, on the As a consequeuce. reads: noman pontilf cnn Chris. To underptaud thls better, tbo therc il no tinn Constitulion gcnrrul prln. and should reconcilo and hnr- ol Stntcs, I'opo rcador mlght profltrbly read a Justtlicatlon for r Lco clplo that monizo htmsell with progress, XIII writcsl vcry sympathctlcally wrltten religlouo and moral with liberalism, and with rccent o'il'lttt rtudy ol the lile and error should if possible alwsys " Churth. inrlortl, tlt'rtrns lt tlmes of civiliza tion, bo prevented. So tho pope con. trttlnryfttl lo plncc lllc vnlioltl I'lus lX by the Dnglish non. On the faee of lt, the lglng cluder: frlttns of rlivirrrt rvorslrilt on tlro Cathollc author, E. E.-y. Italo. pontiff rppears llko "Tho 6ome clcri. cntne footirtg ns llttr trutr rtligion, Tlrc title ot the book ls pio Nono, duty ol ruppresslng moral cal Don vainly tilting Qulxoto lnrt does not. on llral, nccrltnl, . IIr.^ Ilales, who has taught ln and religious error cannot, there- with hls anathemns ngainst lhe con