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Modernism, Not Ultramontanism, Is the “Synthesis of All Heresies”

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Modernism, Not Ultramontanism, Is the “Synthesis of All Heresies”

In American traditionalist circles, it is becoming fashionable to blame “ultramontanism” for all the ills affecting Catholicism today. Supposedly, Pope Francis is imposing a revolutionary agenda on the Church because of the actions of ultramontanes during the First Vatican Council. Detractors admit that ultramontanes turned traditional Church teaching on papal infallibility and … Read more

The Apostolic Strategy of Blessed Pius IX

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The Apostolic Strategy of Blessed Pius IX 1

The Nineteenth Century: Ravished by Modernism and Rationalism It is not easy for someone today to have a clear idea of the devastation which rationalism and modernism wrought on European and American society throughout the nineteenth century. At that time, the human soul had been profoundly worked over by materialists and revolutionaries … Read more