Far be it from us, Venerable Brothers?, that we^licuid flood ; nevertheless it must equally be held that he But it is our Apostolic duty to rouse your episcopal hidden counsels and judgments of God, which are deep held of faith that no one can be saved outside the Apos- It is known to us and to you that they who labour that the feast should bo solemnly kept, approved a special mass abysses, that cannot be fathomed by human thought. able, you repel from the minds of men that error, as and office for it, and applied numerous indulgences to its obser- of God. Now who shall think himself sufficient to be of Pope Pius IX., Dec. 9, 1854.] able to set limits to this sort of ignorance, bearing in who is in ignorance of the true religion, if this is in- ceptu, vol. iii., 1620.) fatal as it is impious, that the way of salvation may vincible, is therefore in no way culpable in the sight far be it from us that we should wish to sound the certainly be found in any religion. . . . For it is to be tolic Roman Church, which is the only arc of salvation, and of all other circumstances whatsoever. [Allocution mind the manner and variety of peoples, places, talents, and that he who will not enter into it will perish in the vance. (Passaglia, De Iminaculato Deiparce Semper Virginia Con- THE CATHOLIC FAITH NECESSARY 93 solicitude and watchfulness, so that, so far as you are dare to set limits to the divine mercy, which is infinite ;