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