We may look at our own diocese of Antigonish to see the effects of Modernism which Pope St. Pius Xth called the synthesis of all heresies. The mess we are in began when the bishop and priests betrayed Pope Paul VI over Humanae Vitae.
All in Modernism
We may look at our own diocese of Antigonish to see the effects of Modernism which Pope St. Pius Xth called the synthesis of all heresies. The mess we are in began when the bishop and priests betrayed Pope Paul VI over Humanae Vitae.
How the modernists interpreted and taught the documents is what resulted in the current devastation. In the diocese of Antigonish, priests at St. F.X. were among the first public dissenters against ‘Humanae Vitae’ and then Bishop William Power sided with them. The university degenerated from its Catholic roots until finally the Board of Governors formally voted to no longer be Catholic and started promoting St. F X as being an undergraduate university with a “Catholic Heritage”.
Modernist concepts did not come from the laity but as with all heresies it was started by bishops and priests. They promoted the idea that the Church was heading for a crises, although this only existed in their own minds. In order to avert the crisis, they insisted that the Church had to change in order to appeal to modern people.
The roots of Modernism go back to the French Revolution’s ‘Declaration of The Rights of Man’ which promoted the concepts of religious pluralism, equality of religions, separation of Church and State, and etc. It was influenced by the Protestant Rebellion of Martin Luther who adopted the philosophy of nominalism which embraced the physical world as reality while dumbing down supernatural integration.