in accordance with the institutes of the Church ; and of piety, be excluded from popular discourses before by the holy Fathers and sacred Councils, be believed, which tend to a certain kind of curiosity or supersti- by the suffrages of the faithful, but principally by the to be made public and treated of. While those things maintained, taught, and everywhere proclaimed by the very recently in this oecumenical Synod, that there is as scandals and stumblingblocks of the faithful. But that whatsoever is due on their behalf, from the endow- a Purgatory and that the souls there detained are helped labour under an appearance of error, let them not allow faithful who are living, namely, the sacrifices of masses, joins on bishops that they diligently endeavour that 78 ROMAN CATHOLICISM prayers, alms, and other works of piety, which have those from which for the most part there is no increase the uneducated multitude. tion, or which savour of filthy lucre, let them prohibit questions, both those which tend not to edification and faithful of Christ. But let the more difficult and subtle acceptable sacrifice of the altar; the holy Synod en- the sound doctrine concerning Purgatory, transmitted faithful departed, be piously and devoutly performed, been wont to be performed by the faithful for the other In like manner, such things as are uncertain, or which let the bishops take care that the suffrages of the