The War Upon Religion: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in EuropeCunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
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The War Upon Religion: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe
Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
Catholic Church -- Europe; Catholic Church -- History; Church and state -- Catholic Church
Article 23. The bishops shall be charged with the
organization of their seminaries, and the regulation of that
organization shall be submitted to the approbation of the
First Consul.
Article 24. Those who shall be chosen to teach in the
seminaries shall subscribe to the declaration made by the
clergy of France in 1682 and published by an edict of the
same year; they will be obliged to teach the doctrine therein
contained; and the bishops shall address a formal attestation
of such submission to the counsellor of State charged with
all matters concerning religious worship.
The bishops will ordain no persons whose names have not been
submitted to the Government and approved by it.
Article 27. Pastors may not enter upon their functions before
they have taken in the hands of the prefect the oath
prescribed by the convention made between the Government and
the Holy See. A formal attestation of this act shall be drawn
up by the secretary general of the prefecture, and they shall
receive a copy of the same.
Article 32. No foreigner can be employed in the functions of
the ecclesiastical ministry without the permission of the
Government.
Article 39. There shall be but one liturgy and one catechism
for all the Catholic churches of France.
Article 40. No pastor may order extraordinary public prayers
in his parish without the special permission of the bishop.
Article 41. No feast, with the exception of Sunday, may be
established without the permission of the Government.
Article 45. No religious ceremony shall be held outside the
edifices consecrated to Catholic worship in such cities as
contain temples destined for a different worship.
Article 53. They shall not in their powers make any
publication foreign to religious worship, unless they be
authorized to do so by the Government.
Article 54. They shall not bestow the nuptial blessing except
on such as can prove in good and due form that they have
already contracted their marriage before a civil official.
Article 56. In all ecclesiastical and religious documents it
will be required to observe the equinoctial calendar
established by the laws of the Republic; the days shall be
designated by the names they hold in that calendar.
Article 64. The salary of an archbishop shall be 15,000
francs.
Article 65. The salary of bishops shall be 10,000 francs.
Article 66. Pastors shall be distributed into two classes.
The salary of pastors of the first class shall be 1,500
francs; that of pastors of the second class shall be 1,000
francs.
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