08-31-2025, 06:08 AM
The following is taken from the Bulletin of the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary - August 31, 2025:
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Oath Against Modernism
115th Anniversary Tomorrow [September 1st]
With the decree Lamentabili (1907) and the encyclical Pascendi (1907) the dangers of the modernist interpretation of Catholic truth had been exposed and fully expounded. Nevertheless, efforts to promote the modernist cause were continued in various countries. To eliminate the possibility of modernist error spreading throughout the clergy, Pope St. Pius X drew up and published on September 1st, 1910, the following Oath Against Modernism and imposed it on all clergy who would be advanced to major orders, on pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and on professors in philosophical and theological seminaries.
The first part of the oath is a strong affirmation of the basic Catholic truths opposed to modernism: the demonstrability of God's existence by human reason; the value and suitability of miracles and prophecies as criteria of revelation; the historical institution of the Church by Christ; the invariable character of Catholic Tradition; the reasonableness and supernaturalness of faith.
The second part of the oath is an expression of interior assent to the decree Lamentabili and the encyclical Pascendi with their contents. Specific modernist errors are singled out for censure and rejection.
Oath Against Modernism
115th Anniversary Tomorrow [September 1st]
With the decree Lamentabili (1907) and the encyclical Pascendi (1907) the dangers of the modernist interpretation of Catholic truth had been exposed and fully expounded. Nevertheless, efforts to promote the modernist cause were continued in various countries. To eliminate the possibility of modernist error spreading throughout the clergy, Pope St. Pius X drew up and published on September 1st, 1910, the following Oath Against Modernism and imposed it on all clergy who would be advanced to major orders, on pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and on professors in philosophical and theological seminaries.
The first part of the oath is a strong affirmation of the basic Catholic truths opposed to modernism: the demonstrability of God's existence by human reason; the value and suitability of miracles and prophecies as criteria of revelation; the historical institution of the Church by Christ; the invariable character of Catholic Tradition; the reasonableness and supernaturalness of faith.
The second part of the oath is an expression of interior assent to the decree Lamentabili and the encyclical Pascendi with their contents. Specific modernist errors are singled out for censure and rejection.
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre