(19) Prayers in Latin profit nothing, because they are not understood.
(23) The Roman Church is not the head of the Church. It is a Church of malignants.
(31) Any man may divorce his wife and follow them, even if his wife is unwilling to be divorced, and e converso.
(33) No one can be saved outside their sect.
In addition to these he mentions other of their errors: Infant Baptism profits nothing—priests in mortal sin cannot consecrate—transubstantiation takes place in the hand, not of him who consecrates, but of him who worthily receives: consecration may be made at an ordinary table (quoting Mal. i. 11)—Mass is nothing, because the Apostles had it not—no one can be absolved by a bad priest—a good layman has power to absolve: he can also remit sins by the imposition of hands, and give the Holy Spirit—Public Penance is to be reprobated, especially in the case of women—married persons sin mortally, if they come together without hope of offspring—Holy Orders, Extreme Unction and the tonsure were derided—every one without distinction of sex may preach—Holy Scripture has the same effect in the vulgar tongue as in Latin—the Waldenses knew by heart the text of the New Testament, and a great part of the Old—they despised decretals, excommunications, absolutions, indulgences, all saints but the Apostles, canonizations, relics, crosses, times and seasons—they said in general that the doctrines of Christ and His Apostles were sufficient for salvation without the statutes of the Church.
With regard to the Catharists he observed that they were divided into three divisions—Albanenses, Concorezenses and Bognolenses. There were others in Tuscany, the Marquisate of Treves and in Provençe who differed very little, if at all, from those previously mentioned. The opinions common to them all were:
(1) The Devil made the world and all things in it.
(2) All the Sacraments of the Church are of the Devil, and the Church itself is a Church of malignants.
(3) Carnal marriage is always a mortal sin.
(4) There is no resurrection of the flesh.