Pius IX was an ultra conservative, who favored a conservative Church and was against all religious liberalism. Through his papacy, Pope Pius IX did all that he could to get rid of liberal Catholicism, most notably publishing the Syllabus of Errors. (Bokenkotter T., 272)
When Pius IX was first elected he lived up to his reputation of being a liberal. He issued a general pardon for political prisoners, for sharing the government of the Papal States with laymen and granted his subjects a constitution that set up a bicameral form of government whose lower house was elected by indirect suffrage. However Pope Pius
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