Pope Pius IX 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 …showed first 75 words of 425 total…

…showed last 75 words of 425 total…beginning the subject of papal infallibility at Vatican I was not going to be addressed for a long while, but a majority tried to pass an order that made papal infallibility the first topic for discussion at the council. The order made it through after it was signed and supported by Pius himself. (www.newadvent.org) The ultramontane movement then came to its climax as the definition of papal infallibility was formed at Vatican I.