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[Catholic Caucus] Pius X’s 1903 call to ‘restore all things in Christ’ is even more relevant todaySt. Pius X knew there would come a time when God’s enemies would believe they had triumphed. Paradoxically, it is at that moment that God’s victory is near: 'the victory will ever be with God — nay, defeat is at hand at the moment when man, under the delusion of his triumph, rises up with most audacity.'In the first encyclical of his papacy, E Supreme Apostolatus, St. Pius X emphasized the pressing need to restore all things in Christ. As he saw it in...

Bishop Schneider: Modernism condemned by Pius X ‘has been realized in all its devastating consequences’'To fight against heresy is a truly noble and selfless act, an expression of an authentic love for one’s neighbor,' Bishop Schneider told LifeSiteNews.Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, kindly granted LifeSite an interview about his new book, Flee from Heresy: A Catholic Guide to Ancient and Modern Errors (Sophia Institute Press), whose publication date is today.In this new interview (please see full text below), the prelate discusses the atmosphere of heresy and relativism in our Church today. “There reigns a ruthless relativism,”...

The Antichrist according to Saint Pius X: An Unexpected Interpretation of the “Abomination of Desolation”120 years ago, on August 4, 1903, the pontificate of Pope Saint Pius X began. Two months later, on October 4, 1903, his first encyclical, E Supremi,[i] was published in order to describe the pontifical program represented by the motto “Instaurare Omnia in Christo” (To restore all things in Christ), used as a subtitle for the text. Revolving around the first verse of the second Psalm of King David, the beginning of the document was dedicated to the situation of the Church in the modern world:“The...

The Oath Against ModernismPope Pius X - 1910 THE OATH AGAINST MODERNISMTo be sworn to by all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries.I . . . . firmly embrace and accept each and every definition that has been set forth and declared by the unerring teaching authority of the Church, especially those principal truths which are directly opposed to the errors of this day. And first of all, I profess that God, the origin and end of all things, can be known with certainty by the natural light of reason from the created world (see...

I offer this article in honor of Pope St. Pius X on his feast day in the calendar of the traditional Roman Rite – that is, September 3.On September 8, 1907, Pope Pius X issued his encyclical letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis, On the Doctrine of the Modernists. The Modernists in question were a group of mostly European Catholic intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who, as they saw it, had the mission of bringing Christianity “up to date” and into conformity with the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age. To them, the march of modern progress, most...

Ecumenism is not really a union of religions. It is the union of non-doctrinal sentimentalists within various religions, whose principle of unity is A.B.T.D. (Anything But True Doctrine). Presently, the most visible case-in-point of A.B.T.D. activity is the highly publicized meeting between Pope Francis and Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. The encounter occurred at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport on February 12, a brief stopover prior to the Pope's trip to Mexico. Francis, following the A.B.T.D. principle of unity that emanates from Vatican II, has no intention of calling the Orthodox to "formal corporate reunion"[1] based on the perennial doctrine...

When I heard the news back on June 11th that The Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences was organizing a “study day” on the Pontificate of St Pius X, my first reaction was to wonder what the Committee was up to. The Vatican has issued so few words about this illustrious Saint in the post-Conciliar years one would have thought he never existed. So why now of all times, in the midst of one the most liberal pontificates in history, would this Pontifical Committee choose to study Pius X? On the “study day” in question ZENIT interviewed the President of the...

August 21, 2006 Memorial of Saint Pius X, pope Psalm: Monday 35 Reading 1Ez 24:15-23 The word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, by a sudden blowI am taking away from you the delight of your eyes,but do not mourn or weep or shed any tears.Groan in silence, make no lament for the dead,bind on your turban, put your sandals on your feet,do not cover your beard, and do not eat the customary bread.That evening my wife died,and the next morning I did as I had been commanded.Then the people asked me, “Will you not tell us...

(From the June 22 edition of The Wanderer) The great expectations of a pending "freeing of the Classical Roman rite of liturgy" have dissipated like April showers. It is now in the heat of summer, and a well-respected consultant to the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith was interviewed by the Mexican newspaper, Milenio, where he mentioned the possibility of a document freeing the Classical rite may be promulgated in October, a post-synodal apostolic exhortation, following the October 2005 synod on the Holy Eucharist. Whether this was merely speculation on the part of Nicola Bux, or an informed opinion, remains...

August 21, 2004 Memorial of Saint Pius X, pope Psalm: Saturday 36 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IEz 43:1-7ab The angel led me to the gate which faces the east, and there I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. I heard a sound like the roaring of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. The vision was like that which I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like that which I had seen by the river Chebar. I fell prone as the glory of the LORD...

There is an air of pride that circulates in the halls of Academe and they who walk its corridors cannot help but inhale great draughts of it. It swells the head yet compresses the brain, leaving little entrance for large and generous thoughts. As it descends to our lower parts, it excites the tongue but chills the heart, evoking endless streams of uncharitable babble. My experience in college confirms all of the above, yet I was innocent of the knowledge when I entered those halls as a vulnerable undergraduate in the heady days of 1967. The school which I had...

In honor of Pius X we are dedicating this portion of the series on the Creation/ Evolution controversy to the statements made by this illustrious Pope on this very topic, and to the Pontifical Biblical Commission under his authority. The Error of Evolution Pius X, without much argument, was one of the most faithful and dedicated pontiffs the world has ever known. For his faithfulness, God allowed him to see where the trends of his own day were headed -- into the era of modernism, liberal theology and pseudo-intellectualism, of which evolution was one of the leading movements. Pius X...

August 21, 2003Memorial of Saint Pius X, pope Psalm: Thursday 36 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IJdgs 11:29-39a The Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah.He passed through Gilead and Manasseh,and through Mizpah-Gilead as well,and from there he went on to the Ammonites.Jephthah made a vow to the LORD."If you deliver the Ammonites into my power," he said,"whoever comes out of the doors of my houseto meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonitesshall belong to the LORD.I shall offer him up as a burnt offering." Jephthah then went on to the Ammonites to fight against them,and...

Saint Pius X, glory of the priesthood; light and honor of the Christian people – you in lowliness seemed blended with greatness, severity with mildness; simple piety with profound learning, you, Pope of the Holy Eucharist and of the Catechism, of unsullied faith and fearless strength, turn your gaze on Holy Church, which you so loved and to which you consecrated the choicest of those treasures with which the lavish hand of the Divine Bounty had enriched your soul. Obtain for her safety and steadfastness amid the difficulties and persecutions of our times; sustain this poor human race whose sufferings...

RELIGIOUS: Religious Customs Pictorial Commentary on Pius X's Counsel to Priests Pope Pius X on Priestly Propriety and Dignity Marian Therese Horvat, Ph.D. These were words of advice of Pope St. Pius X to Priests on the need for priestly dignity and propriety at the beginning of the last century: “In order never to be guilty of any unedifying act, the priest must regulate his actions, his movements and his habits in harmony with the sublimity of his vocation. He who on the altar almost ceases to be mortal and takes on a divine form, remains always the same,...

August 21, 2002Memorial of Saint Pius X, pope Psalm: Wednesday Week 37 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IEz 34:1-11 The word of the Lord came to me:Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,in these words prophesy to them to the shepherds:Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israelwho have been pasturing themselves!Should not shepherds, rather, pasture sheep?You have fed off their milk, worn their wool,and slaughtered the fatlings,but the sheep you have not pastured.You did not strengthen the weak nor heal the sicknor bind up the injured.You did not bring back the strayed nor...

<p>A Seneca Falls priest who was on administrative leave because of an allegation of sexual abuse died late Wednesday.</p> <p>The Rev. David N. Gramkee, pastor of St. Patrick Church, was airlifted to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., after a stroke.</p> <p>Gramkee was 62.</p>