Posted on 10/30/2014 6:20:41 PM PDT by ebb tide
The current crisis in the Church has “been not a crisis of faith, but of a very grave malady of the intellect.” – Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, 1945
By John Vennari
Pope St. Pius X warned of the Modernists, “There is no part of Catholic truth which they leave untouched, none they do not strive to corrupt.”
At Vatican II and in the post-Conciliar period, Modernist destruction was applied primarily to Doctrine and Liturgy. Now it is applied to Catholic Morals. The spirit of Modernism is the true spirit at work at the recent Synod.
The system operates on the Modernist notion that certain aspects of Catholic Truth can change over time.
Those scheming for change may describe their work as a “greater openness,” a “less rigid attitude,” “calls for a new balance,” “an emphasis on mercy,” “pastoral solicitude,” and “allowing ourselves to be surprised by the God of surprises.”
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Good article. Like most traddy articles, it would benefit by having about 90% removed. There’s no need to give the whole history of Modernism and the pontificate of Pius X in EVERY article. The two relevant pieces of data are the parts linking the Synod to the earlier Modernists, touting “inductive” theology against valid theological reasoning.
I need to read this more closely, but it is refreshing to see that Ratzinger is being included in the group of Modernists. As he should be.
7. "...It is with no less deceit, venerable brothers, that other enemies of divine revelation, with reckless and sacrilegious effrontery, want to import the doctrine of human progress into the Catholic religion. They extol it with the highest praise, as if religion itself were not of God but the work of men, or a philosophical discovery which can be perfected by human means. The charge which Tertullian justly made against the philosophers of his own time "who brought forward a Stoic and a Platonic and a Dialectical Christianity"[2] can very aptly apply to those men who rave so pitiably. Our holy religion was not invented by human reason, but was most mercifully revealed by God; therefore, one can quite easily understand that religion itself acquires all its power from the authority of God who made the revelation, and that it can never be arrived at or perfected by human reason. In order not to be deceived and go astray in a matter of such great importance, human reason should indeed carefully investigate the fact of divine revelation. Having done this, one would be definitely convinced that God has spoken and therefore would show Him rational obedience, as the Apostle very wisely teaches.[3] For who can possibly not know that all faith should be given to the words of God and that it is in the fullest agreement with reason itself to accept and strongly support doctrines which it has determined to have been revealed by God, who can neither deceive nor be deceived?..."
Qui Pluribus, "On Faith and Religion" - Pope Pius IX
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