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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART III – THE REMEDIES FOR MODERNISM – I. RULES RELATIVE TO STUDIES

    PART III THE REMEDIES FOR MODERNISM I. RULES RELATIVE TO STUDIES Q. What does the Holy Father ordain on the subject of philosophy? A. He says: In the first place, with regard to studies, We will and strictly ordain that scholastic philosophy be made the basis of the sacred sciences. Q. Following Leo XIII., what…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART III – THE REMEDIES FOR MODERNISM

    PART III THE REMEDIES FOR MODERNISM Q. What did Leo XIII. do against the errors of the Modernists? A. Against this host of grave errors, and its secret and open advance, Our Predecessor, Leo XIII., of happy memory, worked strenuously, both in his words and his acts, especially as regards the study of the Bible.…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART II – 2. POSITIVE MEANS

    PART II THE CAUSES OF MODERNISM I. MORAL CAUSES: CURIOSITY AND PRIDE II. INTELLECTUAL CAUSES III. ARTIFICES OF THE MODERNISTS FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THEIR ERRORS 1. NEGATIVE MEANS 2. POSITIVE MEANS Q. Are the Modernists zealous to enlist new recruits? A. What efforts do they not make to win new recruits! Q. What are…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART II – 1. NEGATIVE MEANS

    PART II THE CAUSES OF MODERNISM I. MORAL CAUSES: CURIOSITY AND PRIDE II. INTELLECTUAL CAUSES III. ARTIFICES OF THE MODERNISTS FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THEIR ERRORS 1. NEGATIVE MEANS Q. Are there, then, things which the Modernists consider as obstacles to be removed? A. They recognize that three chief difficulties stand in their way. Q.…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART II – ARTIFICES OF THE MODERNISTS FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THEIR ERRORS

    PART II THE CAUSES OF MODERNISM I. MORAL CAUSES: CURIOSITY AND PRIDE II. INTELLECTUAL CAUSES III. ARTIFICES OF THE MODERNISTS FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THEIR ERRORS Q. Are the Modernists zealous in propagating their pernicious system? A. Would that they had but displayed less zeal and energy in propagating it! But such is their activity…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART II – INTELLECTUAL CAUSES

    PART II THE CAUSES OF MODERNISM I. MORAL CAUSES: CURIOSITY AND PRIDE II. INTELLECTUAL CAUSE Q. In addition to these two moral causes, curiosity and pride, what is the chief intellectual cause of Modernism? A. If we pass on from the moral to the intellectual causes of Modernism, the first and the chief which presents…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART II – MORAL CAUSES: CURIOSITY AND PRIDE

    PART II THE CAUSES OF MODERNISM Q. The better to understand what Modernism is, and to find the fitting remedies for it, what must now be done? A. To penetrate still deeper into the meaning of Modernism and to find a suitable remedy for so deep a sore, it behoves Us to investigate the causes…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART I – CRITICISM OF THE MODERNIST SYSTEM THE RENDEZVOUS OF ALL THE HERESIES THE WAY TO ATHEISM

    PART I THE ERRORS OF THE MODERNISTS CHAPTER VIII CRITICISM OF THE MODERNIST SYSTEM THE RENDEZVOUS OF ALL THE HERESIES THE WAY TO ATHEISM Q. Why have we set forth at such, length the Modernist doctrines? A. It may, perhaps, seem to some that We have dwelt at too great length on this exposition of…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART I – THE MODERNIST AS REFORMER

    PART I THE ERRORS OF THE MODERNISTS CHAPTER VII THE MODERNIST AS REFORMER Q. What remains to be said in order fully to describe the Modernist? A. It remains for Us now to say a few words about the Modernist as reformer. Q. Cannot we already discover in the Modernists a marked mania for reform?…

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  • CATECHISM ON MODERNISM – PART I – THE MODERNIST AS APOLOGIST – IV. APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF IMMANENCE

    PART I THE ERRORS OF THE MODERNISTS CHAPTER VI THE MODERNIST AS APOLOGIST I. PRINCIPLES AND ORIGINS II. APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF AGNOSTICISM III. APPLICATION OF APOLOGETIC PRINCIPLES IV. APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF IMMANENCE Q. We have just seen in what objective way Modernists hope to dispose the non-believer to faith; but is…

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Knights Prayer

Our Lady, Queen of the Knights, bless all the activities of our Order. Keep us true to our pledge, to extend the kingship of thy Divine Son on earth. Through Thine intercession, win for us the grace, ever to exemplify in our public and private lives, the virtues that should characterize those especially dedicated to the service of the heavenly court. Make us always aware that as your Knights, we are constantly observed, our faith judged, and our Order appreciated. Accept, O Mary, this renewed pledge of fealty and devotion, of Thy Servants, the Knights of the Precious Blood.