Word: thornism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...persistent suspicion of his "modernism." At the beginning of the century he was teaching theology in St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. (where he was born). He had studied at Rome, Cambridge and Munich and there had absorbed much of the modernized philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Thornism), philosophy which Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) approved. But Thomism leads, if unrestrained, to dangerous questioning of Roman Catholic dogma, to what Leo's successor Pius X (1903-14) called pernicious "modernism...
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