.—The Church has condemned as heretical the teaching of Gottschalk, Scotus Eriugena, and Calvin, that God is the author of sin. “Si quis dixerit, non esse in potestate hominis, vias suas malas facere, sed mala ita ut bona Deum operari, non permissione tantum, sed etiam proprie et per se, … anathema sit—If any one saith that it is not in man’s power to make his ways evil, but that the works that are evil God worketh as well as those that are good, not permissibly only, but properly, and