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