to be made public and treated of. While those things faithful who are living, namely, the sacrifices of masses, prayers, alms, and other works of piety, which have of piety, be excluded from popular discourses before been wont to be performed by the faithful for the other acceptable sacrifice of the altar; the holy Synod en- that whatsoever is due on their behalf, from the endow- let the bishops take care that the suffrages of the joins on bishops that they diligently endeavour that in accordance with the institutes of the Church ; and tion, or which savour of filthy lucre, let them prohibit which tend to a certain kind of curiosity or supersti- by the holy Fathers and sacred Councils, be believed, very recently in this oecumenical Synod, that there is questions, both those which tend not to edification and by the suffrages of the faithful, but principally by the the sound doctrine concerning Purgatory, transmitted faithful departed, be piously and devoutly performed, the uneducated multitude. a Purgatory and that the souls there detained are helped as scandals and stumblingblocks of the faithful. But 78 ROMAN CATHOLICISM those from which for the most part there is no increase In like manner, such things as are uncertain, or which faithful of Christ. But let the more difficult and subtle maintained, taught, and everywhere proclaimed by the labour under an appearance of error, let them not allow