Suppression of religious orders

An error of modernism identified by the belief that: The laws enacted for the protection of religious orders and regarding their rights and duties ought to be abolished; nay, more, civil Government may lend its assistance to all who desire to renounce the obligation which they have undertaken of a religious life, and to break their vows. Government may also suppress the said religious orders, as likewise collegiate churches and simple benefices, even those of advowson and subject their property and revenues to the administration and pleasure of the civil power. (Papal Allocution Acerbissimum, 27 September 1852; Probe memineritis, 22 January 1855; Cum saepe, 26 July 1855).