A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

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Roman Catholicism
and Eastern Orthodoxy
The Roman Catholic Church entered the twentieth
century with the basic views proclaimed by the Council of
Trent (1545-63). It had faced liberal ideas in the nineteenth
century and resisted them firmly. In 1864 Pope
Pius IX had issued the Syllabus of Errors. In it he
defended tradition; rejected “modern liberalism” (rationalism
and historical criticism of the Bible); and
denounced the separation of church and state, freedom
for other religions, and public school education.
The nineteenth century also saw the official promulgation
of two important doctrines: the immaculate conception
of Mary, proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in 1854, and
the infallibility of the pope, proclaimed by the First
Vatican Council in 1870.
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