Traditi Humilitati

Traditi Humilitati is an encyclical of the pope Pie VIII given the May 24th 1829 whose object is to announce the program of its pontificate.

“Encouraged by his/her brothers bishops and trustful in front of God”, Pie VIII acknowledges that it feels sadness by noting that the free-thinkers have now the free track to criticize and attack the Church.

The pope notes that the authority of the Church is weakened and that its most crowned precepts are humiliated publicly. The bonds of the unit are frequently broken to the great displeasure of the pontiff.

According to Magpie VIII, the evils of the Church would have due a multitude to sophists being autoproclamés doctors of philosophy. The research of the truth is condemned by these hétérodoxes, which is in their turn taxed with impiété monstrous.

The judgment of the Secret societies is reiterated. Indeed, plusiers of these companies had engaged of the professors to teach the free-thought with European youth. Magpie VIII warns the bishops so that it supervise the seminars promptly.

Critical magpie VIII also the fundamentalist ones which distributes free bibles without informing of them regulations necessary. Thus, a bible badly included/understood can easily become a “poison for the heart”.

Considering the books known as heretics were widespread everywhere, it is requested from the bishops that a great apostolic labor is deployed to fight against doctrinal cancer. Each minister has in addition the duty to nourish his people with reverence for the sacrament of the Mariage.

The encyclical concludes by a apostolic Bénédiction and a prayer asking for peace, the joy, kindness, the grace, the religion and the intercession of Marie.

The texts and quoted people are the epistle in Éphésiens, the Livre of Wisdom, the Livre of Jérémie, Psaume 136, the epistle in Damase, the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospel of Marc, the catholic Index, Pie VII, Clément XII, Benoît XIV, Leon XII, In Eminenti, Providas, Ecclesiam has Jesu Christo, Quo Graviora and the Second epistle with Timothée.

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