36. According to papal teaching it is praiseworthy and Christian for a man, who has promised a woman with an oath to marry her, to deceive her by a sham marriage, and then break the bond and retire into a monastery. This recommendation (to commit an act of treachery at once and of sacrilege) was given by Alexander III. in 1172, and it has been incorporated in the code of canon law drawn up by command of the Popes.(139) 37. The Popes teach that anyone attending a service celebrated by a married priest commits sacrilege, because the blessing he gives turns to a curse. So Gregory VII. teaches, in direct contradiction to the doctrine of the ancient Church, and even to modern theology.(140) The notion has long since been exploded.(141) 38. The Popes teach that they have the power of rewarding services done to themselves with a higher degree of eternal beatitude. Thus Nicolas V. promised all who should take up arms against Amadeus of Savoy (the antipope Felix) and his adherents, not only remission of all their sins, but an increase of heavenly happiness, and gave his lands and property at the same time to the King of France.(142) 39. The Popes teach that it is false and damnable to maintain that a Christian ought not to abstain from doing his duty from fear of an unjust excommunication. Clement XI. declares the contrary to be true in his Bull _Unigenitus_, prop. 91. 40. Those who die wearing the Carmelite scapular have papal assurance, resting on a revelation granted to John XXII., that they will be delivered on the next Saturday after their death by the Virgin Mary from Purgatory and conveyed straight to heaven. So says the Bull _Sabbathina_, confirmed by Alexander V., Clement VII., Pius V., Gregory XIII., and Paul V., by the last after long and careful examination, and with indulgences attached to it.(143) 41. According to papal decisions it is an excess of extravagance and folly, and a detestable innovation, to translate the Roman missal into the vernacular. It is to violate and trample under foot the majesty of the ritual composed in Latin words, to expose the dignity of the holy mysteries to the gaze of the rabble, to produce disobedience, audacity, insolence, sedition and many other evils. The authors of such translations are “sons of perdition.” Alexander III. says this _totidem verbis_ in his Brief of Jan. 12, 1661.(144) Nevertheless the translated missal is in general circulation in France, England and Germany, and is daily used by all the most pious persons.