Word: pascendi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...