Word: pascendi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...