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...critical tools of modern Scriptural scholarship to justify the 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...
...England, the modernist movement found a voice in Irish-born Jesuit George Tyrrell. A convert from Protestantism, Tyrrell proposed that the church restate its beliefs in the light of discoveries made by science and philosophy-a view that Rome found no more palatable than the novelties of Loisy. Expelled from the Jesuits, Tyrrell was excommunicated in 1907; he refused to confess his errors, died two years later. Yet even Pius X was moved by Tyrrell's death. "Unlike most arch-heretics, he died a good Christian," the Pontiff was said to have told a friend...
Except for such compelling reasons as scandal, heresy or outright incompetence, a Roman Catholic bishop is almost never separated from his see. For the past seven months, however, the Most Rev. Nicholas T. Elko, Ruthenian-rite bishop of Pittsburgh, has been in Rome, barred by his church superiors from returning to his diocese. The case of Bishop Elko, who describes his situation as "exile," casts fascinating light on Catholicism's current internal stresses-and on the problems of its little-known Eastern-rite churches...
...semi-autonomous branches of Catholicism that acknowledge the Pope as head of the church but have their own non-Latin customs and liturgies. Ruthenian Catholics, for example, use a Byzantine liturgy identical to that followed by Eastern Orthodox Christians who are not in union with Rome, and which is traditionally celebrated in Hungarian, Greek or Old Slavonic. In the U.S., there are about 600,000 Eastern-rite Catholics. For many of them, their church is a God-given way of maintaining nostalgic ties with their homelands in Eastern Europe and Russia. But their peculiar ways of worship, puzzling and mysterious...
Suppressed Pastoral. Complaints about Elko began to roll in to Apostolic Delegate Egidio Vagnozzi (TIME, July 14), who recommended that the bishop be called to Rome for a discussion of the problems. Once in Rome, Elko was forbidden to communicate with his parishioners; his traditional pastoral letter for Easter Sunday was suppressed. This month, in a statement that in effect probated the bishop's spiritual estate, Rome announced that Elko's vicar-general, Msgr. Edward Rosack, had been appointed administrator of the diocese; Elko remains bishop in title, with no ecclesiastical powers...