Propositions Condemned
Quanta Cura also condemns several other propositions, notably:
- That the will of the public is supreme and overrides any other law, human or divine
- That "in the political order accomplished facts, from the very circumstance that they are accomplished, have the force of right."
- That the outlawing of public begging and alsmgiving is sound policy
- That parents have no rights with respect to their children's education, except what the civil law grants them
- That Catholics have no moral obligation to obey the church's laws unless they are ratified by the state
- That the state has a right to take the property of the church and the religious orders
These propositions were aimed at anticlerical governments in various European countries, which had been recently and would in the next few years be secularizing education (sometimes by taking over Catholic schools rather than starting their own competing public schools) and suppressing religious orders, confiscating their property. (Hales 1958)
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