Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Modernism to post-modernism...

"We must now break silence, in order to expose before the whole Church, in their true colors, those men who have assumed this bad disguise...to refute their charge that we do not understand their ideas. We desired to show their system does not consist in scattered and unconnected theories, but is a perfectly organized body, all parts which are solidly joined so that it is not possible to admit one without admitting all. We define modernism as the synthesis of all heresies, attempting the task of collecting together all the errors that have been broached against the faith and to concentrate the sap and substance of them all into one. It means the destruction not of the Catholic religion alone, but of all religion. The whole system, with all its errors, has been born of the alliance between faith and false philosophy."
"They audaciously charge the Church both with taking the wrong road from inability to distinguish the religious and moral sense of formulas from their surface meaning, and with clinging tenaciously and vainly to meaningless formulas whilst religion is allowed to go to ruin...modernists do not deny, but actually admit, some confusedly, others in the most open manner, that all religions are true."
"The modernists recognize that the three chief difficulties for them are scholastic philosophy, the authority of the Fathers and Tradition, and the Magisterium of the Church. On these they rage unrelenting war. For scholastic philosophy and theology they have only ridicule and contempt. Whether it is ignorance or fear, or both, that inspires this conduct in them, it is certain that the passion for novelty is always united in them with a hatred of Scholasticism, and there is no surer sign that a man is on the way to modernism [than] when he begins to show his dislike for the system."
"Modernists try in every way to diminish and weaken authority. They propose to remove the ecclesiastical Magisterium itself by sacrilegiously falsifying its origin, character, rights, and by freely repeating the calumnies of its adversaries."
--Pope Pius X (1907); A Catechism of Modernism, Fr. J.B. Lemius, O.M.I., (1981);Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford, Illinois.

How prophetic these words are, written in 1907...contemplate...then look at where we are in 2010....

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