Plenary Council of Latin America Issues Decrees
Last year there was held, in the city of Rome, the Plenary Council of Latin America. The acts and decrees of this council have only lately been issued, in Latin. The Independent of May 10 presents a translation of some of the items of these acts and decrees. In the title, “On Catholic Faith,” says the Independent, “it very severely attacks the civil indifferentism which would allow the state to take no care of religion. It declares, following the Pius IX Syllabus of Errors, against public schools in which religion is not taught, and insists that ‘they are totally in error who say that there must be a separation between church and state.’ It condemns ‘those who either reject the notion of revelation, or who, practically withdrawing all revelation from society and all authority of God and the church, declare for a separation of church from state, and a political atheism bewitched by a show of refinement and progress.’”