LXXIV. Matrimonial causes and espousals belong by their

own nature to the civil forum.
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N.B. — To this head may be referred two other errors: on abolishing clerical celibacy, and on preferring the state . of marriage to that of virginity. They are condemned, the former in the Encyclical " Qui pluribus," Nov. 9, 1846 ; the latter in the Apostolic Letters "Multiplices inter," June 10, 1851.
§IX.
Errors concerning the Roman Pontiff" s civil princedom.