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502 42 | recognise that the three chief difficulties for them are scholastic
503 49 | 49. Equal diligence and severity are to be used
504 56 | furnish the Holy See with a diligent and sworn report on all
505 55 | overlooking assiduously and diligently social institutions as well
506 42 | Modernists try in every way to diminish and weaken the authority
507 42 | exercise all their ingenuity in diminishing the force and falsifying
508 [Title]| VI - Diocesan Watch Committees~
509 44 | his acts they described as directed against others than themselves.
510 23 | Now every society needs a directing authority to guide its members
511 47 | old estate, they have been dis figured by perverse doctrines
512 46 | theology, and those are to be disapproved as of Modernist tendencies
513 23 | The penalty of refusal is disaster. For it is madness to think
514 39 | Venerable Brethren, to that most disastrous doctrine of agnosticism.
515 8 | province of sacred liturgy or discipline. ~Deformation of Religious
516 34 | which they have been able to discover so much that is defective,
517 47 | sciences: the brilliant discoveries and the bold and useful
518 55 | permit such questions to be discussed in periodicals destined
519 25 | his explanations, without discussion, assuredly savours of tyranny.
520 3 | to their minds, that they disdain all authority and brook
521 51 | arrives too late, for the disease has taken root during the
522 30 | which We have called of disfiguration. Let us see what consequences
523 9 | The second is a kind of disfigurement, which springs from the
524 4 | one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as
525 42 | when he begins to show his dislike for this system. Modernists
526 36 | believe what he likes or dislikes. But the Modernists pursue
527 34 | 34. The result of this dismembering of the Sacred Books and
528 23 | subject to it. Should it disown this dependence it becomes
529 42 | 42. If only they had displayed less zeal and energy in
530 37 | also subjective ones at the disposal of the Modernists, and for
531 3 | consideration the internal disposition of soul, of which God alone
532 13 | lightly and in such open disrespect. And so they audaciously
533 3 | immortality, they proceed to disseminate poison through the whole
534 16 | that there can never be any dissension between faith and science,
535 36 | admit that there are many distasteful things in it. Nay, they
536 18 | same way they draw their distinctions between theological and
537 32 | the history of faith and distributes them, period by period,
538 55 | been lost through civil disturbances, or in any other way, let
539 1 | The office divinely committed to Us of feeding
540 35 | become the Messiah, the divinely-given agent and ordainer. Then
541 30 | enable them to make these divisions? The reply is that they
542 49 | obstinate. For the future the doctorate of theology and canon law
543 32 | holds that the age of any document can only be determined by
544 34 | horror. The impudence and the domineering of some, and the thoughtlessness
545 18 | regard them as vague and doubtful. But there is a reason for
546 57 | adversaries of the Church will doubtless abuse what we have said
547 18 | respectfully. In the same way they draw their distinctions between
548 33 | he finishes his work by drawing up in its broad lines a
549 6 | therefore men should be drawn to the faith only by their
550 51 | everything in your power to drive out of your dioceses, even
551 1 | Tit. i. 10), "erring and driving into error" (2 Tim. iii.
552 17 | Finally, man does not suffer a dualism to exist in him, and the
553 55 | prescriptions if they be not dutifully and firmly carried out?
554 35 | not necessary for them to dwell on their own sincerity in
555 55 | piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a
556 39 | that some may think We have dwelt too long on this exposition
557 51 | through carelessness or easiness or excessive confidence
558 17 | seduced by strange and eccentric doctrines, make the head
559 38 | and there are some who, echoing the teaching of their Protestant
560 18 | the Holy Fathers, for the Ecumenical Councils, for the ecclesiastical
561 37 | with errors, made not for edification but for destruction, not
562 46 | foundation the theological edifice is to be solidly raised.
563 52 | who holds it.~Priests as Editors~
564 44 | pastors of souls, of all educators and professors of clerics,
565 39 | do call in experience to eke out their system, but what
566 21 | believer is constrained to elaborate his religious thought so
567 11 | consideration, or, as they say, by elaborating its thought, it expresses
568 21 | himself and others. This elaboration consists entirely in the
569 26 | religious sentiment became more elevated and more intense. For the
570 9 | of the phenomenon, by its elevation above its own true conditions,
571 30 | necessary, therefore, to eliminate also the accretions which
572 10 | the man Christ as in us, emanated from nature spontaneously
573 23 | consciences, so too authority emanates vitally from the Church
574 27 | needs exist - nay, they embody them, so to speak, in themselves.
575 41 | for scholasticism, have embraced the one with all its false
576 10 | agency of vital immanence emerges from the lurking places
577 57 | those Catholics who are most eminent for their learning, the
578 39 | common sense tells us that emotion and everything that leads
579 37 | as has at all times been emphasized by Catholic apologists.
580 3 | astute than they, in the employment of a thousand noxious arts;
581 34 | anybody who embraces it and employs it, makes profession thereby
582 43 | They are possessed by the empty desire of being talked about,
583 45 | present generations (Leo XIII. Enc. Aeterni Patris). And let
584 35 | plume themselves on these encomiums, which are a kind of salary
585 11 | The intellect, then, encountering this sentiment directs itself
586 43 | which they write and by the encouragement they are giving to the extravagances
587 54 | fruitful or respectable (Lett. Encyc. Nobilissima Gallorum, 10
588 40 | slightest shadow of error (Ep. Encycl. Singulari nos, 7 Kal. Jul.
589 3 | disguise.~Division of the Encyclical ~
590 42 | them waste such labour in endeavouring to ruin the Church when
591 19 | conceals, that is to say, endeavours to express but without succeeding
592 35 | the Catholic religion, is endowed with such vitality as to
593 47 | admirably said: Apply yourselves energetically to the study of natural
594 52 | annoyance either while he is engaged in the examination of a
595 34 | these great Doctors did not enjoy the same aids to study that
596 55 | veneration they have always enjoyed except when in individual
597 26 | means of which the idea was enlarged and enlightened while the
598 14 | fain believe, abhor such enormities yet act as if they fully
599 19 | theological symbolism. Truly enormous errors both, the pernicious
600 26 | it is at the root of the entire system of the Modernists,
601 55 | true of relics. Finally, We entrust to the Councils of Vigilance
602 28 | but as a divine deposit entrusted to the Spouse of Christ
603 28 | of Pius IX., where it is enunciated in these terms: Divine revelation
604 26 | disobedience is death. The enunciation of this principle will not
605 40 | slightest shadow of error (Ep. Encycl. Singulari nos,
606 36 | and to serve a purpose. (Epist. 28). And thus it will come
607 32 | Scriptures, such as the Epistles, themselves constitute the
608 36 | 2) declare that this is equivalent to attributing to God Himself
609 26 | is upon it that they will erect that famous method of theirs
610 3 | conduct. Nor indeed will he err in accounting them the most
611 36 | Christ Himself manifestly erred in determining the time
612 1 | seducers" (Tit. i. 10), "erring and driving into error" (
613 47 | are fallen from their old estate, they have been dis figured
614 39 | Modernists have but little esteem, but which testify to a
615 38 | the passive, both in the estimation in which they must be held
616 13 | folly where they pervert the eternal concept of truth and the
617 39 | unknowable remains and will eternally remain unknowable to the
618 39 | which the Modernists give no evidence. Is it not really folly,
619 17 | the universe.~Thus it is evident that science is to be entirely
620 25 | towards their necessary evolutions - this is not a legitimate
621 13 | only able, but ought to evolve and to be changed. This
622 46 | Modernist tendencies who exalt positive theology in such
623 49 | severity are to be used in examining and selecting candidates
624 26 | mysteries. Thus, to omit other examples, has it happened in the
625 1 | these last days increased exceedingly, who are striving, by arts,
626 14 | within and without man as to excel greatly any scientific conviction.
627 40 | respect for authority, not excepting the supreme authority. No,
628 10 | the Catholic religion an exception; it is quite on a level
629 52 | Censor. Only on very rare and exceptional occasions, and on the prudent
630 45 | which may be regarded as an excess of subtlety, or which is
631 51 | carelessness or easiness or excessive confidence in the author
632 33 | at the same time, they excite just indignation when they
633 42 | martyr to truth. The young, excited and confused by all this
634 7 | the principles of Fideism, excites in a soul with a propensity
635 25 | for the soul, it is not exclusively for the soul, and that the
636 48 | extolling the Modernists or excusing their culpable conduct,
637 36 | that even its dogma is not exempt from errors and contradictions.
638 40 | But it is pride which exercises an incomparably greater
639 51 | Delegates of the Apostolic See, exert themselves to prescribe
640 52 | institution, and We not only exhort, but We order that it be
641 42 | longer correspond with the exigencies of our time or the progress
642 37 | who make this appeal to an exigency for the Catholic religion.
643 31 | faith, who never really existed; a Christ who has lived
644 26 | which faith admitted in Him expanded in such a way that He was
645 7 | of the divine, which is experienced only in special and favourable
646 22 | already by anticipation. This explains how it is that the historical
647 25 | author, without hearing his explanations, without discussion, assuredly
648 43 | employed by Modernists to exploit their wares. What efforts
649 3 | break silence, in order to expose before the whole Church
650 55 | other way, let it not be exposed for public veneration until
651 20 | points We shall proceed to expound, anybody may easily make
652 19 | has deemed suitable for expressing the common consciousness
653 12 | they are the inadequate expression of its object, and are usually
654 55 | stimulate piety, neither with expressions savouring of mockery or
655 51 | unless the apostolic faculty expressly concedes permission to read
656 55 | seemed expedient to Us to extend to all dioceses the regulations
657 55 | In order," they say, "to extirpate the errors already propagated
658 28 | enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies,
659 48 | favour Modernism either by extolling the Modernists or excusing
660 22 | come to anybody, but those extraordinary and striking ones which
661 43 | encouragement they are giving to the extravagances of the Modernists.~
662 19 | symbolism. The process is an extremely simple one. The philosopher
663 42 | been wont to cast in her face before the world a stupid
664 27 | would make of the laity a factor of progress in the Church.
665 57 | religion refutes by never failing arguments, it is Our intention
666 14 | and priests who, We would fain believe, abhor such enormities
667 28 | the Spouse of Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted.
668 47 | to say, now that they are fallen from their old estate, they
669 1 | oppositions of knowledge falsely so called. There has never
670 26 | example, as the sentiment of family or nationality; and positive
671 26 | that they will erect that famous method of theirs called
672 39 | point of view, for all these fantasias on the religious sentiment
673 38 | nothing on which it does not fasten. Reform of philosophy, especially
674 37 | doctrines that would be fatal to any religion.~ ~The Modernist
675 48 | scholasticism, the Holy Father, or by refusing obedience
676 27 | is imputed to them as a fault they regard as a sacred
677 42 | ignorance and obstinacy are the favourites. When an adversary rises
678 2 | to be deeply deplored and feared, in her very bosom and heart,
679 54 | Nobilissima Gallorum, 10 Feb., 1884).~
680 35 | combats, and the vitality and fecundity which the Church has shown
681 1 | divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord's flock has especially
682 18 | philosophy, history, criticism, feeling no horror at treading in
683 2 | priesthood itself, who, feigning a love for the Church, lacking
684 26 | divinity, and because it fell to their lot to have new
685 39 | experiences except those felt by the Modernists are false
686 27 | individual consciences and ferments there - especially in such
687 6 | let him be anathema" (De Fide, can. 3). But how the Modernists
688 24 | his Constitution Auctorem fidei.~ ~The Magisterium of the
689 7 | according to the principles of Fideism, excites in a soul with
690 58 | of September, 1907, the fifth year of our Pontificate.~
691 42 | on Catholics who sturdily fight the battles of the Church.
692 35 | praised by the rationalists as fighting under the same banner, and
693 47 | estate, they have been dis figured by perverse doctrines and
694 40 | aspects. It is pride which fills Modernists with that confidence
695 8 | their folly. For Modernism finds in this sentiment not faith
696 26 | 26. To finish with this whole question
697 58 | Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, be with you
698 33 | fulfilled in her. This done, he finishes his work by drawing up in
699 3 | the faith and its deepest fires. And having struck at this
700 44 | wanting in vigilance, zeal or firmness. And what We ask of you
701 33 | The critic follows and fits in the rest of the documents
702 34 | men with such a system are fitted for practising this kind
703 40 | doctrines and an occasion to flaunt itself in all its aspects.
704 51 | and the prudence of the flesh, despising the outcries
705 1 | Us of feeding the Lord's flock has especially this duty
706 13 | Modernists, and as clearly flows from their principles. For
707 14 | experience affirmed by a follower of Islam? With what right
708 23 | it wishes to provoke and foment an intestine conflict in
709 51 | Besides, just as the same food does not agree equally with
710 10 | these are not merely the foolish babblings of infidels. There
711 33 | themselves to be wise they became fools (Rom. i. 21, 22); but, at
712 8 | rule, to be put on an equal footing with revelation, and to
713 18 | horror at treading in the footsteps of Luther, they are wont
714 55 | narrated; she simply does but forbid belief in things for which
715 23 | can surrender. Were it forcibly confined and held in bonds,
716 26 | by the elimination of all foreign elements, such, for example,
717 1 | should be attributed to forgetfulness of Our office.~Gravity of
718 40 | Catholic laymen or a priest forgets that precept of the Christian
719 17 | Venerable Brothers, is in formal opposition with the teachings
720 6 | fact that the Church has formally condemned these portentous
721 37 | destruction, not for the formation of Catholics but for the
722 | former
723 | Formerly
724 2 | reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of
725 10 | only rudimentary and almost formless, gradually matured, under
726 7 | of religious immanence is formulated. Moreover, the first actuation,
727 50 | Christian life at its very fount. The same decision is to
728 42 | also, the profession of the fourth Council of Constantinople:
729 39 | the most sincere and the frankest among the rationalists warmly
730 19 | properly understood, is free from reproach. Others hold
731 43 | as though there were a frenzy of propaganda upon them.
732 49 | of Italy concerning the frequenting of the Universities, We
733 11 | sentiment of which We have frequently spoken, since sentiment
734 42 | words, to depict her as the friend of darkness and ignorance,
735 46 | describes theology as so far in front of all others that every
736 54 | be either holy, or very fruitful or respectable (Lett. Encyc.
737 3 | Venerable Brethren, how fruitless has been Our action. They
738 33 | laws of evolution have been fulfilled in her. This done, he finishes
739 51 | no Bishop think that he fulfils this duty by denouncing
740 23 | liberty has reached its fullest development, and when the
741 55 | and decisions, and their function shall be as follows: They
742 31 | The critic, on the data furnished him by the historian, makes
743 13 | they embrace other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, condemned
744 36 | Modernists pursue their way gaily. They grant also that certain
745 51 | not, through desire for gain, put on sale unsound books.
746 38 | preceded, some idea may be gained of the reforming mania which
747 55 | of souls or, worse still, gaining strength and growth" (Acts
748 42 | Modernists vent all their gall and hatred on Catholics
749 54 | Lett. Encyc. Nobilissima Gallorum, 10 Feb., 1884).~
750 42 | horror of good Catholics, gather round him, heap public praise
751 23 | this authority is to be gathered from its origin, and its
752 54 | mentioned congresses and public gatherings as among the means used
753 56 | the like obligation on the Generals of Religious Orders with
754 34 | others, have combined to generate a pestilence in the air
755 34 | infinitely superior to them in genius, in erudition, in sanctity,
756 26 | be added those religious geniuses whom we call prophets, and
757 51 | outcries of the wicked, gently by all means but constantly,
758 55 | certain the a relic is not genuine, let them remove it at once
759 20 | for the development of the germs a certain time and a certain
760 36 | inspiration of the Holy Ghost, have God for their author (
761 11 | painter who restores and gives new life to a picture that
762 34 | before them nobody ever even glanced through the pages of Scripture,
763 42 | learned, and both classes goaded internally by curiosity
764 10 | they boast that they are going to reform the Church by
765 52 | will know how to follow the golden mean in their judgments.
766 31 | instance, whom we find in the Gospel of St. John, which is pure
767 34 | Pentateuch and the first three Gospels, have been gradually formed
768 9 | which they have already got from agnosticism, constitute
769 49 | the Bishops who form the Governing Board of such Catholic Institutes
770 52 | use the utmost severity in granting permission to print. Under
771 35 | the formula of it has been gratuitously invented for the sake of
772 21 | Modernists fall into the gravest errors. For them the Sacraments
773 1 | forgetfulness of Our office.~Gravity of the Situation~
774 27 | as authority. Their sole grief is that it remains deaf
775 37 | but deplore once more, and grievously, that there are Catholics
776 17 | not on one but on three grounds. For in the first place
777 4 | teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion
778 21 | and these subsequently grouped into bodies of doctrine,
779 7 | experiences within himself grows up into a religion, the
780 55 | and even then she does not guarantee the truth of the fact narrated;
781 28 | Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted.
782 24 | pretext whatsoever, is to be guilty of an abuse of ecclesiastical
783 43 | have yet grown into the habit, as though they had been
784 42 | themselves on their side, hailing their works, excluding novelty
785 47 | of them are pursued in a half-hearted or superficial way, and,
786 46 | serve it and be to it as handmaidens (Leo XIII., Lett. ap. In
787 57 | truth. God grant that we may happily realise our design with
788 44 | Predecessor Leo XIII., of happy memory, worked strenuously
789 55 | questions so that they may harbour no trace of Modernism, but
790 51 | it may happen that a book harmless in one may, on account of
791 38 | their evolution are to be harmonised with science and history.
792 26 | historical conditions and of harmonising itself with existing forms
793 50 | philosophy, strive to make this harmonize with the faith, and, as
794 49 | the love of novelty! God hates the proud and the obstinate.
795 39 | Modernism; the next will plunge headlong into atheism.~
796 27 | make a show of bowing their heads, their hands and minds are
797 Ben | Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. ~
798 17 | for the profit of their hearer but to make a show of science . . .
799 25 | knowledge of the author, without hearing his explanations, without
800 27 | have no bitterness in their hearts against the authority which
801 13 | Church, on which, in the height of their vanity, they think
802 33 | in a word everything that helps to determine the manner
803 42 | after the impious fashion of heretics, to deride the ecclesiastical
804 | herself
805 36 | these theories they do not hesitate to declare that the noblest
806 2 | s open enemies; they lie hid, a thing to be deeply deplored
807 35 | recognise that its history hides some unknown element. To
808 36 | Augustine: In an authority so high, admit but one officious
809 40 | and obscurest offices; the higher they try to rise, the lower
810 52 | of writings. We have the highest praise for this institution,
811 43 | ridicule on certain relics highly venerable from their antiquity.
812 34 | forward; let an outsider but hint at a desire to inspect the
813 34 | nationality or religion, which the historians and critics of this school
814 6 | nescience, to scientific and historic Atheism, which is a doctrine
815 32 | need which produced it - historically the fact must be posterior
816 35 | the sacred books or the histories in current use in the Church,
817 36 | declare that the noblest homage that can be paid to the
818 35 | not using an argumentum ad hominem, but are stating the simple
819 55 | persons of the saints who are honoured. The same is true of relics.
820 3 | obstinacy.~Once indeed We had hopes of recalling them to a better
821 44 | 44. Against this host of grave errors, and its
822 27 | progress of souls, but the hour will most surely come when
823 40 | Modernism as in its own house, finding sustenance everywhere
824 57 | science and of the progress of humanity. In order to oppose a new
825 17 | venerate them devoutly and humbly.~The Modernists completely
826 27 | under a mock semblance of humility. While they make a show
827 51 | different circumstances, be hurtful in another. Should a Bishop,
828 55 | relative, always implies the hypothesis of the truth of the fact;
829 6 | Him, let him be anathema" (Ibid., can. 2); and finally, "
830 17 | to the absolute and the ideal. It is therefore the right
831 39 | conclusion from this is the identity of man with God, which means
832 34 | deny it - and you are an ignoramus; embrace it and defend it -
833 [Title]| II - Practical Application~
834 43 | writing with a liberty that ill becomes Catholics. They
835 50 | disposed themselves but ill-instructed in theological studies and
836 9 | criticism. We will take an illustration from the Person of Christ.
837 42 | Church by the Holy and most illustrious Apostles, by the orthodox
838 13 | are symbols, they are the images of truth, and so must be
839 13 | formulas, especially if merely imaginative, were to be made for the
840 34 | is defective, one would imagine that before them nobody
841 45 | whatever to propose it for the imitation of present generations (
842 58 | by His power; and may the Immaculate Virgin, the destroyer of
843 34 | concerned with is an agnostic, immanentist, and evolutionist criticism.
844 24 | as having been instituted immediately by God as the author of
845 13 | intrinsic evolution of dogma. An immense collection of sophisms this,
846 50 | equal to that caused by immoral reading - nay, it would
847 3 | having struck at this root of immortality, they proceed to disseminate
848 28 | nothing stable, nothing immutable in the Church. Nor indeed
849 27 | multiplies the obstacles which impede the progress of souls, but
850 28 | even concerning the faith, impeded by this pronouncement -
851 25 | inevitable consequence which impels many among liberal Protestants
852 35 | into the world. Hence it is imperative first of all to establish
853 28 | terms: Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to
854 34 | and so far from finding imperfections in them, have thanked God
855 55 | remove those teachers of impiety through whom the pernicious
856 42 | those who dare, after the impious fashion of heretics, to
857 7 | this sentiment possesses, implied within itself both as its
858 55 | as it is relative, always implies the hypothesis of the truth
859 54 | postulates be allowed that would imply a usurpation of sacred authority,
860 38 | active virtues are more important than the passive, both in
861 25 | and the authority which imposes it, arises, according to
862 37 | apologetics, and who do this so imprudently that they seem to admit
863 34 | shrink back with horror. The impudence and the domineering of some,
864 7 | to a certain necessity or impulsion; but it has its origin,
865 27 | reprimanded or punished. What is imputed to them as a fault they
866 13 | taking the wrong road from inability to distinguish the religious
867 12 | the faith, they are the inadequate expression of its object,
868 6 | these limits. Hence it is incapable of lifting itself up to
869 43 | of pseudonyms to trap the incautious reader into believing in
870 39 | intelligence, and man, already inclined to follow the senses, becomes
871 6 | with them altogether; they include them in Intellectualism,
872 16 | between faith and science, including history also under the name
873 40 | pride which exercises an incomparably greater sway over the soul
874 1 | Christ has in these last days increased exceedingly, who are striving,
875 27 | notwithstanding, masking an incredible audacity under a mock semblance
876 28 | subject to continual and indefinite progress, corresponding
877 17 | the side of science the independence is indeed complete, but
878 14 | exist in itself and quite independently of the person who believes
879 38 | Congregations, and especially the index and the Holy Office, are
880 21 | with dogma, we have already indicated its origin and nature. Dogma
881 33 | same time, they excite just indignation when they accuse the Church
882 35 | the philosopher. First, indirectly, inasmuch as his theme is
883 11 | a manner so confused and indistinct that He can hardly be perceived
884 8 | manifests Himself to the soul, indistinctly it is true, in this same
885 28 | abundantly and vigorously in individuals and in the mass, in the
886 55 | 1896 by the Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics: Ancient
887 38 | are disposed to be more indulgent on this head. Ecclesiastical
888 25 | of the State. It is this inevitable consequence which impels
889 28 | be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted. Hence the sense,
890 15 | again it is given to us to infer that all existing religions
891 6 | things. From this it is inferred that God can never be the
892 10 | the foolish babblings of infidels. There are many Catholics,
893 34 | whole multitude of Doctors, infinitely superior to them in genius,
894 10 | gradually matured, under the influence of that mysterious principle
895 55 | introduced and propagated, and to inform the Bishop of the whole
896 9 | divine which faith will infuse into it. The second is a
897 14 | very reality of God, and infuses such a persuasion of God'
898 51 | this work, remembering the injunctions of Leo XIII. in the Apostolic
899 51 | of reach of the faithful injurious books or other writings
900 49 | nations. Clerics and priests inscribed in a Catholic Institute
901 38 | Catechism no dogmas are to be inserted except those that have been
902 58 | of men's minds from the insidious invasions of error from
903 34 | but hint at a desire to inspect the new discovery with his
904 42 | ignorance or fear, or both, that inspires this conduct in them, certain
905 55 | except when in individual instances there are clear arguments
906 52 | highest praise for this institution, and We not only exhort,
907 55 | admonitions of Leo XIII. (Instruct. S.C. NN. EE. EE., 27 Jan.,
908 42 | actively and patiently every instrument that can serve their purpose.
909 42 | the Church. But of all the insults they heap on them those
910 6 | altogether; they include them in Intellectualism, which they call a ridiculous
911 28 | not been proposed to human intelligences to be perfected by them
912 39 | its disproportion with the intelligible - a disproportion which
913 52 | for the revision of works intended for publication, and let
914 39 | nothing beyond a certain intensity and a proportionate deepening
915 27 | hands and minds are more intent than ever on carrying out
916 51 | dioceses, even by solemn interdict, any pernicious books that
917 47 | 1880). But this do without interfering with sacred studies, as
918 37 | others, who might be called intergralists, they would show to the
919 42 | and both classes goaded internally by curiosity and pride,
920 34 | primitive brief narration - by interpolations of theological or allegorical
921 34 | theological or allegorical interpretation, by transitions, by joining
922 28 | faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted. Hence the sense, too, of
923 30 | consequence is that God, and every intervention of God in human affairs,
924 23 | to provoke and foment an intestine conflict in the consciences
925 39 | for, as we have already intimated, their system means the
926 19 | God working in man is more intimately present in him than man
927 55 | faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian
928 14 | must recognise a kind of intuition of the heart which puts
929 58 | minds from the insidious invasions of error from every side,
930 42 | ecclesiastical traditions, to invent novelties of some kind . . .
931 35 | it has been gratuitously invented for the sake of buttressing
932 17 | The Modernists completely invert the parts, and to them may
933 40 | Venerable Brethren, to investigate the causes which have engendered
934 14 | affirmed by a follower of Islam? With what right can they
935 9 | as something solitary and isolated; but rather in close conjunction
936 55 | the sense of the Decree issued in 1896 by the Congregation
937 49 | secular and regular, of Italy concerning the frequenting
938 55 | Instruct. S.C. NN. EE. EE., 27 Jan., 1902): It is impossible
939 31 | find in the Gospel of St. John, which is pure contemplation
940 39 | parts of which are solidly joined so that it is not possible
941 34 | interpretation, by transitions, by joining different passages together.
942 55 | When Bishops, who alone are judges in such matters, know for
943 30 | and said only what they, judging from the time in which he
944 39 | serves its purpose for the jugglery of words, it is of no use
945 22 | citations. But it is all mere juggling of words. For if we take
946 40 | Encycl. Singulari nos, 7 Kal. Jul. 1834).~But it is pride
947 36 | of preaching, which are justified by life. Do they stop here?
948 40 | Encycl. Singulari nos, 7 Kal. Jul. 1834).~But it is pride
949 16 | and science, for if each keeps on its own ground they can
950 39 | say is the reality of the knowable; the object of faith, on
951 46 | desirous of truth, everybody knows how the old maxim describes
952 54 | Modernism, presbyterianism, or laicism. At Congresses of this kind,
953 43 | of all this? We have to lament at the sight of many young
954 55 | Christian civilisation. Language of this kind is not to be
955 35 | realised within a brief lapse of time and of which He
956 18 | deprived of their liberty. Lastly, guided by the theory that
957 51 | medicine sometimes arrives too late, for the disease has taken
958 9 | conditions must be removed. Lately, the third canon, which
959 7 | consciousness; it is at first latent within the consciousness,
960 | later
961 54 | each case, it shall not be lawful for priests of other dioceses
962 40 | as pride. When a Catholic laymen or a priest forgets that
963 42 | ambitious to be considered learned, and both classes goaded
964 8 | capacity, or in that of legislator in the province of sacred
965 56 | the publication of these letters and every three years thenceforward,
966 10 | exception; it is quite on a level with the rest; for it was
967 13 | vicissitudes, and are, therefore, liable to change. Thus the way
968 25 | which impels many among liberal Protestants to reject all
969 6 | Hence it is incapable of lifting itself up to God, and of
970 13 | Modernists regard them so lightly and in such open disrespect.
971 36 | refuse to believe what he likes or dislikes. But the Modernists
972 33 | drawing up in its broad lines a history of the development
973 30 | capacity of the multitudes that listened to Him. Hence they delete
974 32 | correspond exactly with the lists of needs, always guided
975 39 | the Modernists have but little esteem, but which testify
976 23 | disciplinary, dogmatic, liturgical. The nature of this authority
977 42 | towards Catholics, they load with constant praise the
978 47 | doctrines and monstrous errors (loco cit.). We ordain, therefore,
979 47 | study, the more severe and lofty studies have been proportionately
980 7 | It must, therefore, be looked for in man; and since religion
981 43 | satisfaction, everything that looks to them like a stain in
982 36 | Finally the Modernists, losing all sense of control, go
983 32 | and divide them into two lots, separating those that regard
984 40 | employ them only in the lowest and obscurest offices; the
985 38 | return to their ancient lowliness and poverty, and in their
986 40 | be placed, so that their lowly position may deprive them
987 10 | immanence emerges from the lurking places of the subconsciousness,
988 18 | treading in the footsteps of Luther, they are wont to display
989 23 | refusal is disaster. For it is madness to think that the sentiment
990 46 | Leo XIII., Lett. ap. In Magna, Dec. 10, 1889). We will
991 27 | made, authority sees to its maintenance.~With all this in mind,
992 39 | and deceptive? The vast majority of mankind holds and always
993 42 | kind . . . or endeavour by malice or craft to overthrow any
994 25 | consciences and possesses its mandate of public utility for their
995 38 | gained of the reforming mania which possesses them: in
996 36 | science or history where manifest errors are to be found.
997 32 | age in which each need had manifested itself in the Church. Further,
998 36 | proclaim that Christ Himself manifestly erred in determining the
999 8 | is not God Himself, as He manifests Himself to the soul, indistinctly
1000 42 | venerate him almost as a martyr to truth. The young, excited
1001 27 | condemnations notwithstanding, masking an incredible audacity under
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