ENCVUCAL BY THE POPE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 11

ENCVUCAL BY THE POPE.

: CONDEMNATION OF •MODERNISM:'/; ; " "COUNCILS OF VIGILANCE. , '; .: , The Paris correspondent of the London ' 'Standard,"" / writing -.' on- September -: 16, states:—:•/■,:■■ ; '"' ■>-.' ";, ■ ::l '-, ■'■' '.'' - ; ; : ; -The newspapers'to-night, publish :a resume of :■■ tho . .new I ,' Papal, '.Encyclical- I against "modernism;". Though it is a question of, considerable ' importance .'to all . Roman Cii'thblics/the Encyclical ; is so", long and. so complicated that'' it": ' will probably require' several day's, to digest before detailed applications, arc.offered. The first, of its'thi'.'ij parts is writtenjwith.a yiew.of sho.ving the cause-of , tho errors-..0f modernism. •Jt ascribes the root of thorn to an agnostiopMlosopliy,: which attempts to limit man's knowledge ;to natural phenomena,, and refuses': the right of ■human .• minds to raiso , thomselves.-to God. , -■ '■ ■■.! • ; ' It- treats at somo length, of faith, which" embraces God-both as Pause and Effect, and analyses very dlosely.. tho' development .of the -now theology, iiV which the, Church, .tho. r.ible,. d.bgma and cult, become ;so many translations;' of tho infinite /feeling. by which man reaches' G0d..., ..It; is understood in this > theology, says the-Encyclical, as it is in the' philosophy ; which inspires'it, that tho' historical phenomena in wh'icli ?Divine ■ intervention appears must-bo ■carefully-.• decomposed so , that everything Divine may bo set down apart from , what is scientific and' historical,' so that the Christ of Faith may be distinguished from the Christ "of History, the Sacrament ; of' Faith • from' the Sacrament of History, the, .Church of.. Faith from the. Church of History.. .The second part.of the Encyclical, (iocs oil to show; how modernism, deforms religious ..history by 'eliminating everything,-that , is in tho nature of : Divino intervention, i'... .; ■...-.. ■'. .HISTORY BARIFIED BY A CRITIC. The,, history .which comes, out of such . a furnace ,as .this, /says.,.the Encyclical, is a. history which has- been, rarified by'i a critic, riot, set down by a historian. ' '".The chicr reasons of modernism," says'tho Pope, "are first-bf'all itwo7/moralijcausesftand..the,lignoranco/of -scholastic ;.-pK ilfisPphy,?;-' tflrich ' do-: prives tho-Tefutatiou-of modern errors' and sophism. -And all threb ; -ea'u I ses'' l nT(j""aggra-" vated by tho extraordinary zeal with which tho modernists spread their erroneous viows. To all theso grave -errbiV to their diffusion both public and secret, our predecessor, Leo. XIII., of happy memory, tried both by act and word to ppposo himself. With affected'airs of submission and of respect, tho. modernists ..bent his words .to their own way of thinking,: and they'directed his acts against others.than themselves. , ■■-■■■ ' ' "The evil grew from day to day, andthat is why we v have" determined to ' more efficacious measures without delay. First and '' foremost' with regard to study."\ We wish, and we order you, to put ecclesiastical philosophy upon tho' basis, ;of'-a sacred .science. Philosophy and scholastic theology are to be taught in all tho Catholic universities. ■Wβ mean the philosophy and the metaphysics of 'St. Thomas, riot tho reproduotioh ■'• of contestable ' subtleties 1 ' or opinions." ''■"'■" "'.'' DIRECTIONS TO BISHOPS. . '' The modernists , aroas" far as possible to be prevented from teaching or,directing Catholic seminaries and ' universities'.: The Bishops, acting as delegates of the Holy See, are to do their best to keep the clergy ami the faithful from the dangers of modernism in the, Press. A college of corisors is to bo instituted in overy diocese'for the revision, of Catholic publications.. Tho Pope forbids all ecclesiastics .to ''edit or to.'direct any. .periodicals without "the /permission of tho 'Bishop'.'.: All 'eccelesiastics who .write for any papers will bo supervised.. . ~. AH ecclesiastical, congresses are forbidden,'except in those, rare cases' where these ecclesiastical congresses -offer rio danger of modernism, presbyterianism, and • laicism. Tho: Encyclical orders ' the constitution' in every docese , of a council of/; : vigilance against modern' errors, and , 'orders tho Bishops to report to the Holy .See upon'this question. Tho words of his Holiness'with referenco to his'command on the'subject of literature aro most ' impressive ■-.'■: ~/ ; No. books or' newspapers , of' a imodenhist aro to be left in'the hands of aiiy.-pupil of the -.universities''and seminaries,, for they poison Christian/life at its very sourco. He' adds:'— ' ". ' '' . "Everthing must.be done to banish: from your diocese every pernicious , , book. The Bishops aro to be above all human fear, to trample- all flpshly. iraprudonco. under foot, and, heedless of,' tho outcry of the wicked, they aro to remember our prescription, and to proseribo and,tear out of the hands of tho faithful all bad hooka and all bad writings. ..This is not onlyv.a right conferred upon them, but a duty >wo imposo upon them." ..•• ... ! . ■ At tho end of the -/Encyclical ;tho Pope says that ho foresees 1 that tho adversaries of the Church will no doubt represent'it as :the enemy, of scieuco and progress. "To .this accusation," says his Holiness, ."wo will reply (by pur actions..,. ~ . ■'' ~ : CATHOLIC SCIENCE. "We have decided to act with all our power towards tho foundation of a privato institution which shall group together the most illustrious/ representatives of Catholic science. It will be its object to favour and to help, with Catholic truth for its l.ight and for its guide, tho pro'gross of everything that can bo called true scienco or erudition, iujiy God grant us strength to realise this design witli the help of all thos'o who have a sincoro lovo for the. Church of Jesus Christ." ~ :.,:,.-. , _ . "La Croix," the leading Roman Catholic journal in' I ranee,, in a leading article on tho Encyclical, compares the Church with a ship upon.the ocean, continuously taken by storm. Tho. storms which . assail tho .boat of St. Peter aro the human passions. •Tho wholo object of tho Encyclical is to prove that modernism and its doctrines aro fatal 'to all religion, and _to point out a way; of'combating its effects.