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All should read this at least once.  * Remember that these are condemned errors and the Catholic is obligated to maintain the contrary position. 

I could not agree more OABrownson1876, 'these are condemned errors and the Catholic is obligated to maintain the contrary position.

This Syllabus was trying to put a stop to the Modernism that was creeping into the Catholic Church at the time. But it was too late, as Rome itself had started the road down to Modernism. Here is the History of that beginning.

On March 5th 1616, on direct orders from Pope Paul V, the Congregation of the Index issued its historic decree based on the following conclusion, banning certain books promoting the heretical Biblical fixed-sun-heliocentrism as a truth.

(1) “That the sun is in the centre of the world and altogether immovable by local movement,” was unanimously declared to be “foolish, philosophically absurd, and formally heretical [denial of a revelation by God] inasmuch as it expressly contradicts the declarations of Holy Scripture in many passages, according to the proper meaning of the language used, and the sense in which they have been expounded and understood by the Fathers and theologians.”
(2) “That the Earth is not the centre of the world, and moves as a whole, and also with a diurnal movement,” was unanimously declared “to deserve the same censure philosophically, and, theologically considered to be at least erroneous in faith.”

In 1633 the wrong understanding of Scripture was again condemned by Pope Urban VIII as ‘heterodoxy’ a heresy that ‘puts the Catholic faith in danger.’

Then In 1820-22 this is what another Pope Pius VII decreed;

‘The most excellent [Holy Office] have decreed that there must be no denial, by the present or by future Masters of the Sacred Apostolic Palace, of permission to print and to publish works which treat of the mobility of the Earth and of the immobility of the sun [the defined heresy in 1616], according to the common opinion of modern astronomers, as long as there are no other contrary indications, on the basis of the decrees of the Sacred Congregation of the Index of 1757 and of this Supreme [Holy Office] of 1820; and that those who would show themselves to be reluctant or would disobey, should be forced under punishments at the choice of [this] Sacred Congregation, with derogation of [their] claimed privileges, where necessary.’

Then, in 1864, came Pope Pius IX's Syllabus that OABrownson1876 says correctly 'these are condemned errors and the Catholic is obligated to maintain the contrary position.

Here are three of the condemned errors

‘Error no 12: The decrees of the Apostolic See and of the Roman congregations impede the true progress of science. Error 13: The method and principles by which the scholastic doctors cultivated theology are no longer suitable to our times and to the progress of the sciences. 14. Philosophy is to be treated without taking any account of supernatural revelation.’

This change of interpretation of divine revelation, from the supernatural to the natural began modernist changes by 'Scriptural scholars' from the literal revelations of Genesis to 'the findings of science.'

And it didn't end there. Here is what Vatican II said on the 7th December 1965 in the Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.

‘… The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are. We cannot but deplore certain attitudes (not unknown among Christians) deriving from a short-sighted view of the rightful autonomy of science; they have occasioned conflict and controversy and have misled many into opposing faith and science.’ --- Gaudium et spes, # 36.

Finally a couple of quotes from JP":

“In fact, the Bible does not concern itself with the details of the physical world, the understanding of which is the competence of human experience and reasoning.” (Pope John Paul II, commenting on the Galileo case in 1992.)

‘It is a duty for theologians to keep themselves regularly informed of scientific advances in order to examine if such be necessary, whether or not there are reasons for taking them into account in their reflection or for introducing changes in their teaching.’ --- Pope John Paul II’s response to Papal Commission findings, 1992.

So, Pope Pius IX says 'these are condemned errors and the Catholic is obligated to maintain the contrary position.'
Nevertheless, the churchmen running the Church since 1820, promoted the contrary position. Sure its no wonder the Catholic faith is disappearing from Earth.