Pius VI, Auctorem Fidei, 75
Written
28 August, 1794, in condemnation of the Gallican and Jansenist acts and
tendencies of the synod of Pistoia (1786).
Source: Denzinger, Heinrich, and Peter
Hünermann. Compendium of Creeds,Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of
Faith and Morals 43rd ed. San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 2012. §2675.
75.
The teaching which says that in the happy days of the early Church oaths seemed
so foreign to the model of the divine Preceptor and to the golden simplicity of
the Gospel that "to take an oath without extreme and unavoidable need had
been reputed to be an irreligious act, unworthy of a Christian person,"
further, that "the uninterrupted line of the Fathers shows that oaths by
common consent have been considered as forbidden"; and from this doctrine
proceeds to condemn the oaths which the ecclesiastical curia, having followed,
as it says, the norm of feudal jurisprudence, adopted for investitures and
sacred ordinations of bishops; and it decreed, therefore, that the law should
be invoked by the secular power to abolish the oaths which are demanded in
ecclesiastical curias when entering upon duties and offices and, in general,
for any curial function,—false, injurious to the Church, harmful to
ecclesiastical law, subversive of discipline imposed and approved by the
Canons.
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