Oath Against Modernism Archives

The ‘worst’ outcome from the conclave may be the wakeup call Catholics need

Never before has it been so obvious to Catholics who have a firm understanding of the Faith that many of the cardinals do not believe what the Church teaches.

Opinion

Robert T. Morrison

• May 6, 2025May 6, 2025

The Catholic Church teaches that men can know God exists through reason alone

In this article, we take a temporary pause from discussing proofs for the existence of God and consider how the Catholic Church has responded to claims that the human intellect lacks the capacity to reach certain knowledge of God’s existence.

Opinion

Matthew McCusker

• Apr 18, 2024Apr 18, 2024

Is it possible to prove the existence of God?

Just because the existence of God is not self-evident, in the sense of being immediately and intuitively known by human beings, does that mean His existence isn't provable at all?

Opinion

Matthew McCusker

• Feb 6, 2024Feb 7, 2024

My experience with Modernism in a Catholic seminary in the late 1950s

My seminary memories, culminating in the Church’s surrender to the heresy of Modernism in the Second Vatican Council, convince me that Archbishop Lefebvre’s and Archbishop Viganò’s assessments of the Second Vatican Council’s role at the grass-roots seminaries level are spot-on accurate.

Opinion

Raymond B. Marcin

• Jan 8, 2024Jan 8, 2024

Was Vatican II a valid ecumenical council?

In 1982, Pope Benedict XVI (then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) called some of the documents of the Second Vatican Council a 'counter-syllabus' to Pope Pius IX's and Pope St. Pius X's syllabi and encyclicals against the heresy of Modernism. How should we Catholics interpret such a statement?

Opinion

Raymond B. Marcin

• Jan 2, 2024Jan 2, 2024

Bishop Strickland: Upcoming Synod will only lead to more ‘confusion’ and ‘division’ in the Church

On this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland explains why he wrote his pastoral letter to the faithful of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas.

News

LifeSiteNews staff

• Sep 3, 2023Sep 4, 2023

Abp. Viganò: Abolition of anti-Modernist Oath is ‘a desertion, a betrayal of unheard-of gravity’

In a wide-ranging response to LifeSite, Archbishop Viganò not only covers the history of the 1910 Oath Against Modernism and its abrogation and replacement by another formula of profession of faith, but he also discusses the influence of Jacques Maritain upon Pope Paul VI, the Gramscian-Communist method of cultural infiltration and subversion of the Catholic Church, and the person of Joseph Ratzinger as such.

Blogs

Maike Hickson

• Jan 6, 2021Jul 30, 2021

Questions for Archbishop Viganò concerning the Oath Against Modernism and its abrogation

An open letter to Archbishop Viganò about the consequences of the abolition of the Oath Against Modernism – and Pope Benedict XVI's involvement in overthrowing the prepared schemas of Vatican II.

Blogs

Maike Hickson

• Sep 28, 2020Jul 30, 2021

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Articles tagged Oath Against Modernism

The ‘worst’ outcome from the conclave may be the wakeup call Catholics need

The Catholic Church teaches that men can know God exists through reason alone

Is it possible to prove the existence of God?

My experience with Modernism in a Catholic seminary in the late 1950s

Was Vatican II a valid ecumenical council?

Bishop Strickland: Upcoming Synod will only lead to more ‘confusion’ and ‘division’ in the Church

Abp. Viganò: Abolition of anti-Modernist Oath is ‘a desertion, a betrayal of unheard-of gravity’

Questions for Archbishop Viganò concerning the Oath Against Modernism and its abrogation