[Polycarp IV]

The schism has been simmering for a long time, but it sure seems to being coming to the boil now.

Pope Leo XIII's letter on Americanism:

CONCERNING NEW OPINIONS, VIRTUE, NATURE AND GRACE, WITH REGARD TO AMERICANISM

Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae

Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on January 22, 1899.

What?!?

I thought all the trouble in the modern Church STARTED with VII and the Novus Ordo?

;-)

[ninenot]

Actually, Poly, the whole CHURCH started with V.II, if you believe certain clergy and Bishops.

Testem Ben. was really addressed to the then-Apb. of St Paul/Minneapolis, who was an Irishman absolutely devoted to the nascent schism of Americanism.

Bernardin and his ilk are merely the (rotten) fruits of this tree, planted well back in the 1800's.

Not all that different from the progression of Dimowits from FDR to Clinton.