It has not the right to recognize any marriage between Christians as valid, unless the Sacrament is included. (73.)
It has not the right to declare that matrimonial causes, or those arising out of betrothals, belong by their nature to the civil jurisdiction. (74.)
N.B.--_In many cases, the propositions under this head show the powers of the Church directly corresponding to the disabilities of the State expressed under the previous head._
She has the right to interfere with the study of philosophy, and it is not her duty to tolerate errors in it, or to leave it to correct itself. (11.)
She has the right to require the State not to leave every man free to profess his own religion. (15.)
She has the right to be perfectly free. She has the right to define her own rights, and to define the limits within which they are to be exercised. (19.)
She has the right to exercise her power without the permission or consent of the State. (20.)
She has the right to bind Catholic teachers and authors, even in matters additional to those which may have been decreed as articles of belief binding on all. (22.)
She has the right of requiring it to be believed by all that no Pope ever exceeded the bounds of his power; also that no OEcumenical Council ever did so, and further, that neither the one nor the other ever usurped the rights of princes. (23.)
She has the right to maintain that whatever temporal power is found in the hands of a bishop, is not beyond what is inherent in his office, and has not come from the State, and therefore is not liable to be resumed by it. (25.)
She has the right to claim dominion in temporal things for the clergy and the Pope. (27.)
She has the right to make bishops promulge the Pope's decrees without consent of their rulers. (28.)
She has the right to require it to be believed of all, that the immunity of the Church, and of ecclesiastical persons, did not arise out of civil law. (30.)
She has the right to require that temporal causes, whether civil or criminal, to which clergymen are parties, should be tried by ecclesiastical tribunals. (31.)
She has the right to alter the conclusions of a National Church Council, and to reject the claim of the Government of the country to have the matter decided in the terms adopted by such National Council. (36.)