Although it does not explicitly mention freemasonry, it has been cited by later Church documents on the subject because it condemned those "who think that the portal of eternal salvation opens for all from any religion".[1]: Sect.

4 Regarding religious pluralism, Pius VIII condemned the "foul contrivance of the sophists of this age" that would place Catholicism on a par with any other religion.

Furthermore, the Bibles are rarely without perverse little inserts to ensure that the reader imbibes their lethal poison instead of the saving water of salvation.

[1] On marriage, Traditi humilitati fell within a series of papal documents "denying that the civil power can regulate marriage",[2] which can be traced from a letter of Pope Pius VII to the Archbishop of Mainz, Etsi Fraternitatis, sent on 8 October 1803, stating that lay tribunals' and non-Catholic assemblies' declarations of nullity and attempts to dissolve marriages "have no value or effect in the eyes of the Church",[3] through Traditi humilitati, to Gregory XVI's Commissum divinitus (1835), Pius IX's Ad Apostolicae Sedis (1851) and beyond.

[2] Pius VIII explained that marriage was "formerly" concerned only with the procreation of children,"but now it has been raised to the dignity of a sacrament by Christ the Lord and enriched with heavenly gifts.