ps, is to remain in perpetual vigor, warn all and in virtue of
holy obedience and under pain of anathema enjoin on all those who
have been regenerated in the waters of baptism not to inculcate or
study any of the perverse teachings we have mentioned, or, what is
more to be condemned, practise them in any manner upon any one.

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"Section II.--And because it is just that those who by their deeds
make mockery of the Most High should meet with punishments worthy of
their transgressions we pronounce the sentence of excommunication
which it is our will they shall _ipso facto_ incur, who shall
presume to act contrary to our salutary warnings and commands. And
we firmly decree that in addition to the above penalties a process
shall be begun before competent judges for the infliction of all and
every penalty which heretics are subject to according to law, except
confiscation of goods, against such as being duly admonished of the
foregoing or any of the foregoing practices, have not within eight
days from the time when the admonition was given amended their lives
in the aforesaid matters.

"Section III.--Moreover, since it is proper that no opportunity or
occasion should be given for such flagitious practices, We, in
conformity with the advice of our brother bishops, ordain and command
that no one shall presume to have or to hold books or writing of any
kind containing any of the before-mentioned errors or to make a study
of them. On the contrary, we desire and in virtue of holy obedience
we impose the precept upon all, that whoever shall have any of the
aforesaid writings or books shall, within the space of eight days
from their knowledge of our edict in this matter, destroy and burn
them and every part thereof absolutely and completely; otherwise, we
decree that they incur the sentence of excommunication _ipso facto_
and, when the evidence is clear, that other and greater penalties
shall be inflicted upon culprits of this kind."

Now here is a Papal document that, far from containing any of the
superstitions that President White so outspokenly declares it to
contain, is a worthy expression of the fatherly feelings of the head
of Christendom that might well have been issued at even the most
enlightened period of the world's history. The two sentences on which
all of President White's serious accusation is founded are simple
expressions of the Pope's solicitude for his flock o