ITHI.IC IMHT.MKNTS. 



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IV. 

 DK FIDE XT 



1. Si qui* ili\i-rit, in revclationp divina nulla vcra 

 rir tlicta mystoria contineri,sed universa fl<lc-i 

 .in jiossf per rationoin rito cxoultam o nuturuli- 



IMIS pniu'i['iis iutelligi ct demouatrari ; anathema 

 bit. 



2. Si quis dixorit, disciplines humanaa oa cum 

 lilifrtiiUi triii't:iinlu8 o80, ut oanim assorttoncSj ctai 

 doctrimu n-vclatii> mlviTscntur, tanquain vt-ru- ri-titirri, 

 noque ab Eoclcsia proscribi possint ; anathema sit. 



3. Si quis dixerit, fieri posso, ut dogma ti bus nb 

 Eivli-sia propositis. aliquando, secuudum progressum 



uu census tribueridus sit alios ab coquum intel- 

 lexit ut intelligit Eecle.sia ; anathema sit. 



Itaque suprcmi pastpralis Nostri offlcii debitum 

 exequentes, omnes Christi fldcles, maxiine veros eo, 

 qui pncsuut vel docendi munero funguntur, per vis- 

 cera Jesu Cbristi obtestainur, neo non ejusdom Dei 

 ct Salvatoria Nostri auctoritato iubemus, ut ad bos 

 errores a Sancta Ecclesia arcendos et ehminandos, 

 atque purlssimie fidei lueuiu paiidcadam studium ct 

 operaiu conferant. 



Quoniam yero satis non est hoereticara pravitatern 

 dovitaroj nisi ii quoquo errores diligenter fugianturj 

 qui ad illaiii plus uiinusve acoedunt ; omnes officii 

 monemus servandi etiam Constitutiones et Decrota, 

 quibus pravae cjusmodi opiniones, qua istbio diserte 

 non enumerantur, ab hac Sancta Sede proscriptaj et 

 probibitw sunt. 



IV. 

 Or FAITH AND BEASOK. 



1. If any ono Rball say that divine revelation in- 

 cludes no mysteries, truly and properly HO culle<l ; 

 but that all the dogma* of faith may, with the aid 

 of natural principles, bo understood and demon- 

 strated by reason duly cultivated ; lot him bo 

 anathema. 



J. If any one shall say that human sciences ought 

 to bo pursued in such a spirit of freedom that ono 

 may be allowed to hold, as truo, their assertions, even 

 wli'i-n opposed to revealed doctrine; and that such 

 assertions may not be condemned by the Church ; let 

 him bo anathema. 



8. If any one shall say that it may at any time 

 come to pass, in the progress of science, that the 

 doctrines sot forth by the Church must be taken in 

 another sense than that in which the Church has 

 ever received and yet receives them ; let him be 

 anathema. 



Wherefore, fulfilling our supreme pastoral duty, 

 wo beseech, through the bowels of mercy of Jesus 

 Christ, all the Christian faithful, and those especially 

 who are set over others, or have the office ot teach- 

 ers, and furthermore we command them by authority 

 of the same our God and Saviour, to use all zeal and 

 industry to drive out and keep away from holy 

 Church those errors, and to spread abroad the pure 

 light of faith. 



And whereas, it is not enough to avoid heretical 

 pravity, unless at the same time we carefully shun 

 those errors which more or less approach to it ; we 

 admonish all, that it is their duty to observe likewise 

 the constitutions and decrees of this holy see, by 

 which wrong opinions of the same kind, not ex- 

 pressly herein mentioned, are condemned and for- 

 bidden. 



PIRST DOGMATIC DECREE ON THE CHURCH, PUBLISHED IN THE FOURTH SESSION OF 

 THE VATICAN COUNCIL, ON JULY 18, 1870. 



PIVS EPISCOPVS SERVVS 8ERVORTM DEI 8ACRO APPRO- PIUS, BISHOP, SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD, WITH 

 BANTB CONCILIO AD PERPETVAJI REI MEMUIUAM. TUB APPROBATION OF THE HOLY COUNCIL, FOR A PER- 



PETUAL REMEMBRANCE HEREOF. 



The eternal Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, in 

 order to render perpetual the saving work of His re- 

 demption, resolved to build the holy Church, in which, 

 as in the house of the living God, all the faithful 

 should bo united by the bond of the same faith and 

 charity. For which reason, before He was glorified, 

 He prayed the Father, not lor the apostles alone, but 

 also for those who, through their word, would believe 

 in Him, that they all might be one, as the Son Himself 

 and the Father are one.* Wherefore, even as He 

 sent the apostles, whom He had chosen to Himself 

 from the world as He had been sent by the Father, so 

 He willed that there should be pastors and teachers in 

 His Church even to the consummation of the world. 

 Moreover, to the end that the episcopal body itself 

 might be one and undivided, and that the entire mul- 

 titude of believers might be preserved in oneness of 

 faith and of communion, through priests cleavingmu- 

 tually together, Ho placed the blessed Peter before 

 thp other apostles and established in him a perpetual 

 principle of this twofold unity, and a visible founda- 

 tion on whose strength " the eternal temple might be 

 built, and in whoso firm faith tho Church, might riso 

 upward until her summit reach the heavens. ''T Now, 

 seeing that in order to overthrow, if possible, the 

 Church, the powers of hell on every side, and with n 

 hatred which increases day by day, are assailing her 

 foundation which was placed by God. we therefore, 

 for the preservation, the safety, and tiie increase of 

 tho Catholic flock, and with the approbation of the 

 sacred council, have judged it necessary to set forth 

 tho doctrine wnioh, according to the ancient and con- 



* John xvll. 1-80. 



t St. Leo the Great, Sermon IT. (or 111.) chapter S, on 

 Carlstmas. 



Pastor aetcrnus et episcopus animarum nostrarum, 

 ut salutiferum redemptions opus percnne reddcretj 

 sanctam aedificare Ecclesiam decrevit, in qua veluti 

 in domo Dei viventis fidelea omnes unius fidei et 

 charitatis vinculo continerentur. Quapropter, prius- 

 quam clarificaretur, rogavit Patrem non pro Apostolis 

 tantum, sed et pro eis, qui credituri erant per ver- 

 bum eorum in ipsum, ut omnes unum csscnt, sicut 

 ipso Filius et Pater unum sunt.* Quemadmodum 

 itritur Apostolos, quos sibi do mundo elegerat, misit, 

 sicut ipse missus erat a Patro ; ita in Ecclcsia sua Pas- 

 tores et Doctoros usque ad consummationem saeculi 

 esse voluit. Ut vero episcopatus ipse unus ct iiidi- 

 visus essct, et per cohaerontes sibi invicem sacer- 

 dotes credontium multido universa in fldei et com- 

 munionis unitate conscrvaretur, beatum Petrum cae- 

 teris ApostolU praeponens in ipso instituit perpe- 

 tuum utriusquo unitatis principium tie visibilo fun- 

 damcntum, super cuius lortitudinem aetcrnum ex- 

 trueretur temptum. et Ecclosiae coelo infercnda sub- 

 limitas in huius ftdei firmitate consurgeret.f Et quo- 

 n him portae inferi ad evertcndam, si fieri posset, Ec- 

 clesiam contra cius fundamentum divinitus positum 

 maiori in dies odio undiquo insurgunt; Nos ad catho- 

 lic! grcgis custodiam, incolumitatem, augmcntum, no- 

 ccssarium esse iudicamus, sacro approbanto Concilio, 

 doctrinam do institutione, perpetuitate, ac natura sa- 

 cri Apostolici primatus, in quo totius Ecclosiae vis ac 

 soliditas consistit, cunctis fidclibus crcdendam ct te- 

 nendam, seoundum antiquam atquo oonstantem uni- 

 versalisEcclesiao fidem, proponerc, atquo contrarios, 

 dominico gregi adeo permciosos orrores proscribero et 

 condom nare. 



* .Joan.~xvTfT3(r 



t s. Loo M. scrm. iv. (al. Ul.) cap. 2, in diem Natalia sal. 



