First of all they lay down the general principle that in a living religion everything is subject to change, and must in fact be changed. According to the principles of the Modernists they may be rightly described as a summary of experiences, not indeed of the kind that may now and again come to anybody, but those extraordinary and striking experiences which are the possession of every religion. It remains for Us now to say a few words about the Modernist as reformer. What, then, does the historian do in view of this principle? Thus in their books one finds some things which might well be approved by a Catholic, but on turning over the page one is confronted by other things which might well have been dictated by a rationalist. Already we observe, Venerable Brethren, the introduction of that most pernicious doctrine which would make of the laity the factor of progress in the Church. The Reception and Application of the Encyclical Pascendi, 193-208 Talar. THE it was God AND THE Shepherd the Lord's flock OF POPE FRANCIS I. From this, Venerable Brethren, springs that most absurd tenet of the Modernists, that every religion, according to the different aspect under which it is viewed, must be considered as both natural and supernatural. The document is a fantastic articulation of what we've seen in seminaries, universities and at the highest levels of the Church. The process is an extremely simple one. Against this host of grave errors, and its secret and open advance, Our predecessor Leo Xlll, of happy memory, worked strenuously, both in his words and his acts, especially as regards the study of the Bible. Lastly, the third canon, which lays down that the Person of Christ has been disfigured by faith, requires that everything should be excluded, deeds and words and all else, that is not in strict keeping with His character, condition, and education, and with the place and time in which He lived. Emanationism (q.v.) This explains how it is that the historical and apocalyptic books are included among the Sacred Writings. Why did Pope St. Pius X choose the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to issue a condemnation of Modernism? The Church and the sacraments according to the Modernists, are not to be regarded as having been instituted by Christ Himself. The critic takes in hand the documents dealing with the history of faith and distributes them, period by period, so that they correspond exactly with the list of needs, always guided by the principle that the narration must follow the facts, as the facts follow the needs. Given at St. Peter’s, Rome, September 8, 1907, in the fifth year of Our Pontificate. Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Still it is to he held that both Church and sacraments have been founded mediately by Christ. Two months later, on September 8, Pope Pius X published the encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, subtitled "On the Doctrine of the Modernists." From the combination and, as it were, fusion of these two elements, the common mind which draws up the formula and the authority which imposes it, arises, according to the Modernists, the notion of the ecclesiastical magisterium. The operation of the mind in this work is a double one: first, by a natural and spontaneous act it expresses its concept in a simple, popular statement; then, on reflection and deeper consideration, or, as they say, by elaborating its thought, it expresses the idea in secondary propositions, which are derived from the first, but are more precise and distinct. Pascendi dominici gregis was a Papal encyclical letter promulgated by Pope Pius X on 8 September 1907. PASCENDI Encyclical letter of pius x (Sept. 8, 1907), which, along with the Holy Office's decree lamentabili and the Oath against modernism, forms the basis of the Church's condemnation of Modernism. Their general direction for the Church is as follows: that the ecclesiastical authority, since its end is entirely spiritual, should strip itself of that external pomp which adorns it in the eyes of the public. For this reason the Vatican Council most justly decreed: “If anyone says that man cannot be raised by God to a knowledge and perfection which surpasses nature, but that he can and should, by his own efforts and by a constant development, attain finally to the possession of all truth and good, let him be anathema.”7. 16. 5. The office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord's flock has especially this duty assigned to it … Hence it is incapable of lifting itself up to God, and of recognizing His existence, even by means of visible things. Follow This Blog. For amongst the chief points of their [the Modernists'] teaching is this which they deduce from the principle of vital immanence ; that religious formulas, to be really religious and not merely theological speculations, ought to be living and to live the life of the religious sentiment. 43. It seems to Us nothing short of madness, or at the least consummate temerity to accept for true, and without investigation, these incomplete experiences which are the vaunt of the Modernist. Hugh Thwaites SJ on the Encyclical, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Part I) Posted by Ancilla Indigna at 9:20 PM. Further, although it is contended that God is the object of faith alone, the statement refers only to the divine reality, not to the idea of God. From this it is inferred that God can never be the direct object of science, and that, as regards history, He must not be considered as an historical subject. … they say God, indeed, presents Himself to man, but in a manner so confused and indistinct that He can hardly be perceived by the believer. Now every society needs a directing authority to guide its members towards the common end, to foster prudently the elements of cohesion, which in a religious society are doctrine and worship. Cardinal Newman and the Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis {1} I T is no exaggeration to state that the Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis is one of the most important documents that have been published by the Holy See in our time, and that its consequences will be felt throughout the whole extent of the Church, and outside her pale, in every community that professes the Christian name. 34. We have to deplore the spectacle of many young men, once full of promise and capable of rendering great services to the Church, now gone astray. By right, for it is in the very nature of authority to protect tradition: and in fact, since authority, raised as it is above the contingencies of life, feels hardly, or not at all, the spurs of progress. Let the Modernists and their admirers remember the proposition condemned by Pius IX: “The method and principles which have served the ancient doctors of scholasticism when treating of theology no longer correspond with the exigencies of our time or the progress of science.”22 They exercise all their ingenuity in an effort to weaken the force and falsify the character of tradition, so as to rob it of all its weight and authority. For them the scholarship of a writer is in direct proportion to the recklessness of his attacks on antiquity, and of his efforts to undermine tradition and the ecclesiastical magisterium. Scott Haynes, SJC for the Nativity of Mary, which was yesterday. Such is the situation in the minds of the Modernists, and their one great anxiety is, in consequence, to find a way of conciliation between the authority of the Church and the liberty of the believers. Thus we are once more led to infer that all existing religions are equally true, for otherwise they would not survive. 39. Tradition, as understood by the Modernists, is a communication with others of an original experience, through preaching by means of the intellectual formula. PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS (“Feeding the Lord’s Flock”) was a Papal encyclical letter promulgated by Pope Pius X on 8 September 1907. 42. They have no bitterness in their hearts against the authority which uses them roughly, for after all they readily admit that it is only doing its duty as authority. The injury to them would be not less than that which is caused by immoral reading — nay, it would be greater, for such writings poison Christian life at its very fount. For this reason, too, We have had to give to this exposition a somewhat didactic form, and not to shrink from employing certain unwonted terms which the Modernists have brought into use. “ Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. For we are living in an age when the sense of liberty has reached its highest development. Undoubtedly, were anyone to attempt the task of collecting together all the errors that have been broached against the faith and to concentrate into one the sap and substance of them all, he could not succeed in doing so better than the Modernists have done. Let the Bishops who form the Governing Board of such Catholic Institutes or Universities watch with all care that these Our commands be constantly observed. Browse here for SSPX Mass Centers, schools and retreat houses all around the world! Hence we have the Modernist axiom that the religious evolution ought to be brought into accord with the moral and intellectual, or as one whom they regard as their leader has expressed it, ought to be subject to it. A hundred years ago, on September 8, 1907, Pope Saint Pius X (1903–1914) published the Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Feeding the Lord’s Flock) against the devastating doctrines of Modernism.. Sometimes this communication of religious experience takes root and thrives, at other times it withers at once and dies. From beginning to end everything in it is a priori, and an apriorism that reeks of heresy. Jump to navigation Jump to search. All this, Venerable Brethren, is in formal opposition to the teachings of Our predecessor, Pius IX, where he lays it down that: “In matters of religion it is the duty of philosophy not to command but to serve, not to prescribe what is to be believed, but to embrace what is to be believed with reasonable obedience, not to scrutinize the depths of the mysteries of God, but to venerate them devoutly and humbly.”9, The Modernists completely invert the parts, and of them may be applied the words which another of Our predecessors Gregory IX, addressed to some theologians of his time: “Some among you, puffed up like bladders with the spirit of vanity strive by profane novelties to cross the boundaries fixed by the Fathers, twisting the meaning of the sacred text…to the philosophical teaching of the rationalists, not for the profit of their hearer but to make a show of science…these men, led away by various and strange doctrines, turn the head into the tail and force the queen to serve the handmaid.”10. Then faith, attracted by the unknowable which is united with the phenomenon, seizes upon the whole phenomenon, and, as it were, permeates it with its own life. Nor does the fact that the Church has formally condemned these portentous errors exercise the slightest restraint upon them. Some were never part of the Church (infidels), some abandoned the Church because of their sins against the Faith (heretics and apostates), or against charity (schismatics), but all, some sooner than others, separated themselves from the Church. There is no species of insult which they do not heap upon them, but their usual course is to charge them with ignorance or obstinacy. Lest what We have laid down thus far should pass into oblivion, We will and ordain that the Bishops of all dioceses, a year after the publication of these letters and every three years thenceforward, furnish the Holy See with a diligent and sworn report on the things which have been decreed in this Our Letter, and on the doctrines that find currency among the clergy, and especially in the seminaries and other Catholic institutions, those not excepted which are not subject to the Ordinary, and We impose the like obligation on the Generals of religious orders with regard to those who are under them. But how? la Tam magnae crescere possunt ut longitudines praeter metrum et pondera usque ad 100 chiliogrammata non sint rara, quamquam in grege tali magno, species magnopere variant. VARIETIES.—These agree in the fundamental doctrine that beneath the apparent diversity and multiplicity of things in the universe there is … The enunciation of this principle will not be a matter of surprise to anyone who bears in mind what the Modernists have had to say about each of these subjects. This encyclical condemned the heresy of Modernism. Hence it is quite impossible to maintain that they absolutely contain the truth: for, in so far as they are symbols, they are the images of truth, and so must be adapted to the religious sense in its relation to man; and as instruments, they are the vehicles of truth, and must therefore in their turn be adapted to man in his relation to the religious sense. But how? Might I recommend a spin through the anti-modernist encyclical of St. Pius X, Pascendi dominici gregis; you should be able to find it on the web in a number of places.. Clarification. The pope condemns Modernism, and a whole range of other principles described as "evolutionary", which allowed change to Roman Catholic dogma. Nothing assuredly could be more utterly destructive of the whole supernatural order. Regarding worship, they say, the number of external devotions is to he reduced, and steps must be taken to prevent their further increase, though, indeed, some of the admirers of symbolism are disposed to be more indulgent on this head. 7. With regard to secular studies, let it suffice to recall here what our predecessor has admirably said: ”Apply yourselves energetically to the study of natural sciences: in which department the things that have been so brilliantly discovered, and so usefully applied, to the admiration of the present age, will be the object of praise and commendation to those who come after us.”26 But this is to be done without interfering with sacred studies, as Our same predecessor prescribed in these most weighty words: “If you carefully search for the cause of those errors you will find that it lies in the fact that in these days when the natural sciences absorb so much study, the more severe and lofty studies have been proportionately neglected — some of them have almost passed into oblivion, some of them are pursued in a half-hearted or superficial way, and, sad to say, now that the splendor of the former estate is dimmed, they have been disfigured by perverse doctrines and monstrous errors.”27 We ordain, therefore, that the study of natural sciences in the seminaries be carried out according to this law. For the Modernists, to live is a proof of truth, since for them life and truth are one and the same thing. Indeed, Modernists do not deny, but actually maintain, some confusedly, others frankly, that all religions are true. To hear them descant of their works on the Sacred Books, in which they have been able to discover so much that is defective, one would imagine that before them nobody ever even turned over the pages of Scripture. For though such things come within the category of phenomena, still in as far as they are lived by faith and in the way already described have been by faith transfigured and disfigured, they have been removed from the world of sense and transferred into material for the divine. It may, perhaps, seem to some, Venerable Brethren, that We have dealt at too great length on this exposition of the doctrines of the Modernists. 49. They understand the needs of consciences better than anyone else, since they come into closer touch with them than does the ecclesiastical authority. 2, art. Meanwhile it may be that they have persuaded themselves that in all this they are really serving God and the Church. One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord's flock is that of guarding with the greatest vigilance the deposit of the faith … The state must, therefore, be separated from the Church, and the Catholic from the citizen. Leo Xlll, encyclical of August 4, 1879, Aeterni Patris. But in all this we have mere verbal conjuring. 53. Such methodology led to erroneous conclusions that called into question many Church dogmas. For they place the origin of dogma in those primitive and simple formulas, which, under a certain aspect, are necessary to faith; for revelation, to be truly such, requires the clear knowledge of God in the consciousness. In fact, that they are so is maintained by not a few. But the object of the religious sense, as something contained in the absolute, possesses an infinite variety of aspects, of which now one, now another, may present itself. So far, Venerable Brethren, there has been no mention of the intellect. But the dominion of philosophy over history does not end here. The object of science, they say, is the reality of the knowable; the object of faith, on the contrary, is the reality of the unknowable. Hence each has a separate scope assigned to it: science is entirely concerned with phenomena, into which faith does not at all enter; faith, on the contrary, concerns itself with the divine, which is entirely unknown to science. The first of them starts from agnosticism. But of this We propose to speak on another occasion. The penalty of refusal is disaster. One hundred years ago today, Pope Pius X, whose feast we celebrated on this past Monday, issued an encyclical entitled: PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS. The argument of prescription or well-founded presumption is to have weight only when devotion to a relic is commendable by reason of its antiquity, according to the sense of the Decree issued in 1896 by the Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics: “Ancient relics are to retain the veneration they have always enjoyed except when in individual instances there are clear arguments that they are false or superstitious.” In passing judgment on pious traditions let it always be borne in mind that in this matter the Church uses the greatest prudence, and that she does not allow traditions of this kind to be narrated in books except with the utmost caution and with the insertion of the declaration imposed by Urban VIII; and even then she does not guarantee the truth of the fact narrated; she simply does not forbid belief in things for which human evidence is not wanting. Given these premises, everyone will at once perceive what becomes of Natural Theology, of the motives of credibility, of external revelation. Gregory IX Epist. For the Modernist believer, on the contrary, it is an established and certain fact that the reality of the divine does really exist in itself and quite independently of the person who believes in it. We will, therefore, that the Bishops putting aside all fear and the prudence of the flesh, despising the clamor of evil men, shall, gently, by all means, but firmly, do each his own part in this work, remembering the injunctions of Leo XIII in the Apostolic Constitution Officiorum: “Let the Ordinaries, acting in this also as Delegates of the Apostolic See, exert themselves to proscribe and to put out of reach of the faithful injurious books or other writings printed or circulated in their dioceses.”29In this passage the Bishops, it is true, receive an authorization, but they have also a charge laid upon them. Showing page 1. To the entire band of Modernists may be applied those words which Our predecessor sorrowfully wrote: “To bring contempt and odium on the mystic Spouse of Christ, who is the true light, the children of darkness have been wont to cast in her face before the world a stupid calumny, and perverting the meaning and force of things and words, to depict her as the friend of darkness and ignorance, and the enemy of light, science, and progress.”23 This being so, Venerable Brethren, there is little reason to wonder that the Modernists vent all their bitterness and hatred on Catholics who zealously fight the battles of the Church. According to this teaching human reason is confined entirely within the field of phenomena, that is to say, to things that appear, and in the manner in which they appear: it has neither the right nor the power to overstep these limits. Thus the evil has gone on increasing from day to day. We speak of truth in itself — for that other purely subjective truth, the fruit of the internal sense and action, if it serves its purpose for the play of words, is of no benefit to the man who wants above all things to know whether outside himself there is a God into whose hands he is one day to fall. Finally, there is the fact which is all but fatal to the hope of cure that their very doctrines have given such a bent to their minds, that they disdain all authority and brook no restraint; and relying upon a false conscience, they attempt to ascribe to a love of truth that which is in reality the result of pride and obstinacy. The encyclical Pascendi implies it though does not affirm it clearly. It is therefore necessary that a certain light should be cast upon this sense so that God may clearly stand out in relief and be set apart from it. 11. Pascendi dominici gregis. x-xi. PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS. Having laid down this law of evolution, the Modernists themselves teach us how it operates. 45. Men and women join the work of the priests and sanctify themselves in prayer and in multiple apostolic endeavors. “ 1. But this doctrine is today repudiated alike by philosophers and historians. Moreover, the first actuation, so to speak, of every vital phenomenon — and religion, as noted above, belongs to this category — is due to a certain need or impulsion; but speaking more particularly of life, it has its origin in a movement of the heart, which movement is called a sense. Now if We proceed to consider him as a believer, and seek to know how the believer, according to Modernism, is marked off from the philosopher, it must be observed that, although the philosopher recognizes the reality of the divine as the object of faith, still this reality is not to be found by him but in the heart of the believer, as an object of feeling and affirmation, and therefore confined within the sphere of phenomena; but the question as to whether in itself it exists outside that feeling and affirmation is one which the philosopher passes over and neglects. And since the cause or condition of every vital emanation whatsoever is to be found in some need or want, it follows that no fact can be regarded as antecedent to the need which produced it — historically the fact must be posterior to the need. 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