Post by Pacelli on Jan 8, 2022 9:44:22 GMT -5
The following, "An Audit of Modernism," Fr. Robert Rouquette, was published in the Theology Digest, vol. 5, no. 3, Autumn, 1957.
Also available in PDF linked HERE
(Comments: this is a fascinating article examining modernism and helping the reader to grasp what it is and how it is as odds with the Catholic Faith. Fr. Rouquette is clearly optimistic as expressed in this article that modernism had been beaten back and at least implied that the threat was over at the time of this article, 1957. I can only wonder what he must have thought in 1963 and later as he must have saw in horror that not only was modernism not dead, it was being publicly professed and published into the Council documents.
There is no doubt that the 20th century hierarchy, led by St. Pius X clearly saw this new heresy as a grave danger to the Faith and focused its energy on stamping it out. It seems to me that it can be accurately asserted that despite these valiant efforts of St. Pius X followed by his successors until Pope Pius XII (Humani Generis), were not successful in their goal of stamping out this heresy, but from what we can tell of Fr. Rouquette's article, it looked on the surface that the goal was achieved. What appears to have happened, and think it accurate is that modernism hid itself, but remained. Clearly the clergy, and this was all of them that continued to believe in the modernist system, violated their oath and maintained modernist ideas but did so covertly, and this went on until Vatican II and then they all became open about it.
There is one last point about modernism that I find fascinating, and that is how the Catholic priest, Alfred Loisy and so many other clerics of the Church, could adopt such a radically evil and unCatholic idea in the first place. In order to do this, these clerics must have ignored the clear teaching and Tradition of the Church as taught by countless Popes and Councils and explained clearly by the Doctors and dogmatic theologians, and embraced their own radical narrative of how they wanted to see the Church and its doctrine in their own mind thereby demonstrating their arrogance and hubris.
The immediate tell of a modernist is that they ignore the supernatural, most especially miracles. The miracles given by God demonstrate that the Church is a supernatural organization, not a natural evolving entity, and that it's founder Our Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned Her to exist through all ages teaching the truths given by him to His Apostles, who then transmitted these same truths through the successors of the Apostles generation to generation to our times and all times until the end. )
Also available in PDF linked HERE
(Comments: this is a fascinating article examining modernism and helping the reader to grasp what it is and how it is as odds with the Catholic Faith. Fr. Rouquette is clearly optimistic as expressed in this article that modernism had been beaten back and at least implied that the threat was over at the time of this article, 1957. I can only wonder what he must have thought in 1963 and later as he must have saw in horror that not only was modernism not dead, it was being publicly professed and published into the Council documents.
There is no doubt that the 20th century hierarchy, led by St. Pius X clearly saw this new heresy as a grave danger to the Faith and focused its energy on stamping it out. It seems to me that it can be accurately asserted that despite these valiant efforts of St. Pius X followed by his successors until Pope Pius XII (Humani Generis), were not successful in their goal of stamping out this heresy, but from what we can tell of Fr. Rouquette's article, it looked on the surface that the goal was achieved. What appears to have happened, and think it accurate is that modernism hid itself, but remained. Clearly the clergy, and this was all of them that continued to believe in the modernist system, violated their oath and maintained modernist ideas but did so covertly, and this went on until Vatican II and then they all became open about it.
There is one last point about modernism that I find fascinating, and that is how the Catholic priest, Alfred Loisy and so many other clerics of the Church, could adopt such a radically evil and unCatholic idea in the first place. In order to do this, these clerics must have ignored the clear teaching and Tradition of the Church as taught by countless Popes and Councils and explained clearly by the Doctors and dogmatic theologians, and embraced their own radical narrative of how they wanted to see the Church and its doctrine in their own mind thereby demonstrating their arrogance and hubris.
The immediate tell of a modernist is that they ignore the supernatural, most especially miracles. The miracles given by God demonstrate that the Church is a supernatural organization, not a natural evolving entity, and that it's founder Our Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned Her to exist through all ages teaching the truths given by him to His Apostles, who then transmitted these same truths through the successors of the Apostles generation to generation to our times and all times until the end. )