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...dogmatic development from primitive Christianity to the complex Catholicism of his time. In so doing, he conceded that the doctrines of the 20th century church were different from the simple faith of Jesus' first disciples-a judgment that Rome denounced as heretical. In his 1907 en cyclical, Pascendi, Pius X issued a formal condemnation of modernism as "the compendium of all heresies," making several allusions to Loisy's work; one year later, Loisy was excommunicated...
...peak of influence, modernism was an intellectual movement involving at most a few thousand avant-garde Catholics in France, Germany, England and Italy. The church nonetheless moved to suppress it as if a phalanx of Luthers were in its midst. Pius' encyclical Pascendi ordered that all seminary teachers who were tainted by the heresy be fired, required bishops to take other stern measures to eradicate the spiritual disease. Loyal Catholics suspected of involvement with the movement were forced to issue humiliating public denunciations of modernism...
...encyclical Pascendi in 1907 condemned, lock, stock & barrel, the theological trend toward Modernism, which tended to look upon religion as a subjective experience and the church as a purely human institution in the process of evolution. Pius X called this "a synthesis of all heresies," cracked down so hard on Modernism that some Catholics called the encyclical harsh. Retorted Cardinal Mercier of Belgium: "If in the days of Luther and Calvin the church had possessed a Pope of the temper of Pius, would Protestantism have succeeded in getting a third of Europe to break loose from Rome...
...Venice, who spoke no French but in Latin thanked his God that on that account he was not eligible to become Pope (papabile), was Giuseppe Sarto. Few days later he was chosen Pope, taking the name Pius X. Theologically Pius X's greatest work was his encyclical Pascendi which demolished the then dangerous Catholic movement toward Modernism. Vainly attempting to stave off the War, he died soon after its beginning, has been called its first victim. Last June brought the centenary of the birth of Giuseppe Sarto. Last week many a Catholic was praying that Pope Pius...
Complaints of Professor Hanna's modernism reached the Vatican. They reached there at a particularly bad time for his ecclesiastical advancement, for Pius X was then preparing his stern encyclical letter, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, against modernism. That letter was published in 1907, just as Professor Hanna was nominated for coadjutor archbishop of San Francisco. The papal thumb went harshly down on his promotion...