Bishop Strickland: St. Pius X’s warning that the Church has forgotten
Once, every Catholic priest swore an oath against modernism. It was required from 1910 to 1967. Bishops, theologians, seminary faculty all took it. Pope St. Pius X called modernism “the synthesis of all heresies.” It was not a mild warning. It was a diagnosis of a spiritual sickness that would attack the very foundation of divine revelation. Today, ask the average Catholic what modernism is. Many will not know. Ask when they last heard a sermon about it. Many will say never. The solemn warning has become invisible, not repealed, not denied, but neglected into practical nullification. It asks the […]
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