On This Day: Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the... (1864)
On December 8, 1864: Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
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