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Condemnation of religious freedom?

The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X publishes on its website a series of quotations from the popes expected to condemn the "religious freedom" and "freedom of conscience." Unable to find the original text probably in Latin, I could check the translation.

Here is the first quote:

Pius VI. Quod aliquantulum letter of 10 March 1791, the French bishops Assembly National.

"The necessary effect of the Constitution decreed by the assembly is to destroy the Catholic religion and with it the obedience due to kings. In this view we shall, as a right of man in society, absolute freedom, which not only guarantees the right of not being 'worried about his religious views, but still gives the license to think, speak, write and even to print with impunity in religion all that imagination can suggest the most wanton, the right appears, however monstrous result in meeting the equality and freedom natural to all men. But what could he be any more foolish than to establish this equality among men and the unbridled freedom that seems to stifle the reason, the most precious gift that nature has given to man and the only one that distinguishes it from animals? "2.

The first sentence seems to be the conclusion of the previous text which we know nothing. So this sentence has no interest in reading more.

The

second sentence speaks of "absolute freedom". Yet religious freedom as defined by Dignitatis Humanae is not absolute. It has nothing to do with freedom as understood by the revolutionaries.

Third sentence: It is not equality and freedom that are condemned, but those concepts cleared of reason. Pius also emphasizes the fact that reason is the gift of "most valuable" that nature has given to man. It does not exclude the notions of equality and freedom from the scope of reason.

So this text quoted by the SSPX does not condemn in any way the freedom Religious nor freedom of conscience just heard.