Quanta cura (Pius IX.)

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In the encyclical Quanta cura (German: With what concern ) of 1864 , Pope Pius IX condemned . the freedom of religion and separation of church and state . In doing so, he opposed the development of secularized states in Europe. In an appendix of 80 points, which became known under the name Syllabus errorum , among other things, the postulates that every person is free to accept and profess whatever religion he thinks to be true, and that people could practice any religion that is eternal Obtaining bliss, and one could please God as a Protestant as well as in the Catholic Church, called errors.

The claim of the Catholic Church to the final instance in spiritual matters, which this encyclical formulates, was reinforced a few years later with the infallibility dogma . By rejecting basic liberal values, the encyclical contributed to the fact that democratic forms of society were considered "unchristian" for a long time.

With the declaration “ Dignitatis humanae ” (“Of the dignity of man”), the Second Vatican Council recognized freedom of religion and thus contradicted the encyclical Quanta cura .

literature

  • Louis Gaston Segur: The most widespread prejudices and objections against the encyclical of December 8th, 1864. Augsburg 1865 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold Sebott SJ: "Dignitatis humanae" and "Quanta cura" The condemnation of religious freedom before the Second Vatican Council. Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main, accessed on October 28, 2015 .

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