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The Syllabus of Errors
Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office – July 3, 1907
Pope St Pius X ordered that each and every one of the following positions be held by all as condemned and proscribed:
Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office – July 3, 1907
Pope St Pius X ordered that each and every one of the following positions be held by all as condemned and proscribed:
- [The] Church’s interpretation… of the Sacred Books is subject to the more accurate judgment and correction of the exegetes.
- Catholic teaching cannot really be reconciled with the true origins of the Christian religion.
- [The] Church’s magisterium cannot determine the genuine sense of the Sacred Scriptures.
- [The] Church has no right to pass judgment on the assertions of the human sciences.
- In proscribing errors, the Church cannot demand any internal assent from the faithful
- They are free from all blame who treat lightly the condemnations passed by the Sacred Congregation of the Index…
- They display excessive simplicity or ignorance who believe that God is really the author of the Sacred Scriptures.
- Divine inspiration does not extend to all of Sacred Scripture…
- [The] exegete must first put aside all preconceived opinions about the supernatural origins of Sacred Scripture and interpret t the same as any other merely human document.
- In many narrations the [original] Evangelists recorded… things which, even though false, they judged to be more profitable for the readers.
- The narrations of John are not properly history….
- The fourth Gospel exaggerated miracles.
- [St] John is only a distinguished witness of the Christian life…
- Heterodox exegetes have expressed the true sense of the scriptures more faithfully than [orthodox] Catholic exegetes.
- Revelation… was not completed with the Apostles.
- The dogmas the Church holds out as revealed are not truths which have [been revealed from Heaven].
- Opposition may, and actually does, exist between the facts narrated in sacred Scripture and the Church’s dogmas…
- The divinity of Jesus… is not proved from the Gospels.
- Jesus did not speak with the object of teaching He was the Messia[h], nor did His miracles tend to prove it.
- [The] name “son of God”… does not in the least way signify that Christ is the true and natural Son of God. [Jehovah’s Witnesses, Muslims, etc.]
- The doctrine concerning Christ taught by Paul, John and the Councils… is not that which Jesus taught…
- Christ did not always posses the consciousness of His Messianic dignity.
- The Resurrection… is not properly a [historic] fact
- The doctrine of the expiatory death of Christ is… not evangelical.
- The opinions concerning the origin of the Sacraments… are very different from those which now rightly exist among historians who examine Christianity.
- The Sacraments are intended merely to recall to man’s mind the ever-beneficent presence of the Creator.
- The practice of administering Baptism to infants was a disciplinary evolution.
- The formal distinction of the two Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation does not pertain to the history of primitive Christianity.
- Not everything [that] Paul narrates concerning the institution of the Eucharist (1 Corinthians 11:23-35) is to be taken historically.
- In the primitive Church the concept of the Christian sinner reconciled by the authority of the Church did not exist… [Even] after Penance was recognized… it was not called a Sacrament since it would be held as a disgraceful Sacrament.
- [St] John 20:22-23 in no way refer
to the Sacrament of Penance…
[*]The elders who fulfilled the office of [pastor] were [not] instituted by the Apostles as priests or bishops… for the perpetration of the Apostolic mission and power.
[*]It is impossible that Matrimony could have become a Sacrament of the new law until later in the Church…
[*]It was far from the mind of Christ to found a Church as a society which would continue on [E]arth for a long course of centuries
[*]Christian society is subject to a perpetual evolution.
[*]Dogmas, Sacraments and hierarchy… are only interpretations and evolutions of the Christian intelligence…
[*]Simon Peter never even suspected that Christ entrusted the primacy in the Church to him.
[*]The Roman Church became the head of all the churches… merely through political conditions.
[*]The Church has shown that she is hostile to the progress of the natural and theological sciences.
[*]Truth… evolved with [man], in him, and through him.
[*]Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and all men, but rather… a religious movement… to be adapted to different times and places.
[*][T]here is no chapter of Scripture… which contains a doctrine absolutely identical with that which the Church teaches on the same matter.
[*]The chief articles of the Apostles’ Creed did not have the same sense for the Christians of the first age as they have for the Christians of our time.
[*]The Church shows that she… obstinately clings to immutable doctrines which cannot be reconciled with modern progress. …so called]
[*]Scientific progress demands that the concepts of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, revelation, he Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption be re-adjusted.
[*]Modern Catholicism can be reconciled with true science only if it is transformed into a non-dogmatic Christianity; that is to say, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.