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Handout #214 |
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Pope Pius VI condemns the principles of the French Revolution |
| In the letter Quad aliquantunt of 10 March 1791 the pope condemned... this absolute liberty which not only assures people of the right not to be disturbed about their religious opinions but also gives them this license to think, write and even have printed with impunity all that the most unruly imagination can suggest about religion. It is monstrous right, but it would seem to the Assembly to derive from the equality and the freedom natural to all men. But what could be more senseless than to establish among men equality and this unbridled freedom which seems to quench reason ... What is more contrary to the rights of the creator God who limited human freedom by prohibiting evil, than 'this liberty of thought and action which the National Assembly accords to man in society as an inalienable right of nature'? |
