[Land of the Irish]

For having, in sum, denied one basic fact that the Syllabus so firmly underlines: that all ideas and all religions are not the same, and that only the True Faith provides the grounds of a solid, secure, and just future for mankind.

[Land of the Irish]

Ping

[AlguyA]

When I was in grad school, several years before I converted to the Church, I had cause to study Gramsci, Mazzini, etc., for some work I was doing on comparative political systems. During the course of this study, I stumbled across references to Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors. Some what intrigued by the vehement negativity in refernce to it, I tracked down a copy and read it.

For years, I had been stumbling around studying politics, history, etc., vaguely recognizing something didn't really add up. When I read the Syllabus, I found myself nodding in agreement, compelled by its logic and insights, and, perhaps, most compelled by the simple assertions that there were actually Absolute Truths and that these Absolute Truths were knowable.

I had married a Catholic. I had agreed to raise my children Catholic.(though it would be several years before we had children.) But I had never before seriously entertained the notion the entering the Church.

Without doubt, simply reading the Syllabus was the first actual step toward my conversion.

[Dajjal]

Bumpus ad summum

[TradicalRC]

Pope Pius IX has got to be one of the most underrated Popes in Church history.

I first ran across the Syllabus of Errors in a very good book that is hard to find: Conservatism from Adams to Churchill by Peter Veireck.