A Catechism of Modernism

by J.B. Lemius

PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS MANDATUM NOBIS DIVINITUS OFFICIUM ID MUNUS IN PRIMIS A CHRISTO ASSIGNATUM HABET, UT TRADITAE SANCTIS FIDEI DEPOSITUM VIGILANTISSIME CUSTODIAT, REPUDIATIS PROFANIS VOCUM NOVITATIBUS ATQUE OPPOSITIONIBUS FALSI NOMINIS SCIENTIAE.

A missão, que nos foi divinamente confiada, de apascentar o rebanho do Senhor, entre os principais deveres
impostos por Cristo conta o de guardar com todo o desvelo o depósito da fé transmitida aos santos, repudiando as profanas novidades de palavras e as oposições de uma ciência fementida.

Genres: Catholic, Christianity, Christian, Theology, Philosophy

160 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 1992

Reviews

[J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book does a wonderful job of summing up the Error of Modernism on one hand and providing the Causes for its emergence and sustained advance over the years.

Truly, I do wonder if those who advanced the Modernist claim were secretly Freemasons, for as Pope Leo XIII point out in his encyclical on Freemasonry they proposed a more Naturalistic worldview, and as Pope St. Pius X pointed out as well the Modernist Heresy is rooted in Agnosticism, Vital Immanentism, Sentimental Fideism, and Dogmatic Evolutionism all of which leads to Atheism which is Naturalistic, like the Masonic Mission.

Toward the end Pope St. Pius X then provides remedies to this problem, while it maybe good for the lay person to find ways of applying it to their lives it is also the case [as history shows] that his remedies only were able to keep the Modernist Heresy at bay for so long until it exploded on the scene after the Second Vatican Council, it is not to say the Second Vatican Council was evil per se, but that the heresy of Modernism easily seeped out of it after the fact through the justification of "The Spirit of the Council."

Truly then it can only be concluded that to be truly in line with the Spirit of the Council meant reading the documents which sprang forth from it in light of the 2,000 Years of Tradition which lead to this Council in the first place. Truly though as the catechism teaches in this book, one of the ends of the Modernist Heresy was to make the Church a Democracy wherein the power was held below rather than power recognized in the only Legitimate Authority of Tradition, The Church Doctors and Fathers, and finally in the Magisterium itself all of which the Modernist Theologian had a particular hatred for.

[Prince Cad Ali Cad · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is amazing how a little over 50 years since Pascendi Dominici Gregis was published (upon which this book is based), the errors warned against have rooted themselves firmly in the Faith.

Even well-meaning and nominally orthodox Catholics have adopted Modernist mindsets and beliefs.

Would that every one would read this powerful little book and reclaim their reverence for Scholastic philosophy, the Scriptures, and Tradition.

[Dan DalMonte · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book! It shows how modernism is undermining the Church and leading to atheism. Modernism relies on agnosticism, by denying that the intellect can establish any objective truth in religious matters. As a result, all religions are equal, as the modernist descends into a chaotic relativism. Religion is true only insofar as it is "living." External revelation and motives of credibility, that formerly established Catholicism as the one true faith, are cast aside in favor of "vital immanence." Vital immanence is the doctrine that religion is really the crystallization of one's vague yearnings for the divine. History and science must be completely atheistic, and so any account of the person of Jesus Christas divine must be deemed as absurd. We cannot have knowledge of what transcends any empirical phenomena. This appears to be a Kantian position, and Lemius points out that it is the synthesis of religion with modern philosophy, and the abandonment of Thomism, that is causing so many scandalous errors.

[Grant McGurn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book helps to make clearly understandable the wonderful encyclical on Modernism “Pascendi Dominici Gregis” written by Pope Saint Pius X. I would not have fully grasped the power of the encyclical without this catechism. Highly recommend. Life changing book.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was published in 1908. It clearly outlined how Modernism could have been avoided in the Church