This year marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX's encyclical Qanta Cura and the Syllabus Errorum ("Syllabus of Errors").

A reminder, which should probably be hung up in every parish nowadays and taught in Cathechism classes.



The following are CONDEMNED propositions in the Syllabus:

15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

16. Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.

17. Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.

19. The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free - nor is she endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder; but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church, and the limits within which she may exercise those rights.

20. The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government.

39. The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circuмscribed by any limits.

41. The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs. It therefore possesses not only the right called that of "exsequatur," but also that of appeal, called "appellatio ab abusu."

55. The Church ought to be separated from the .State, and the State from the Church.

77. In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.

79. Moreover, it is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism.

80. The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.

More
http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/p9syll.htm

and yet, each one is held rather dear by the conciliar church, n'est-ce pas?

Tisk - tisk!   You haven't absorbed the deep secrets of the hermeneutic of continuity, I see.  


Let me explain it in a few words (you can save all the misery of reading it).

The Syllabus was good FOR ITS TIME.  But now, we know better.  
Consequently, the unclean spirit of Vat.II is understood as the equivalent for our time, as was the Syllabus for its time.  The contradictions are only imaginary.  We understand Vat.II and Newchurch as meaningful for us TODAY, while we still recognize the Syllabus as meaningful for people of THAT time in THOSE days.  

Or, as a flaming liberal once said, "That was then and this is now."

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