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 itself is ignorance.

Q. Ignorance! in the, Modernists who think themselves so learned / can that really be true?

A. Yes, these very Modernists who seek to be esteemed as Doctors of the Church, who speak so loftily of modern philosophy, and show such contempt for scholasticism, have embraced the one with all its false glamour, precisely because their ignorance of the other has left them without the means of being able to recognize confusion of thought and to refute sophistry.

Q. Has, then, this false modern philosophy, with which the Modernists, in their ignorance of scholasticism, have allowed themselves to be taken, given birth to Modernism?

A. Their whole system, containing as it does errors so many and so great, has been born of the union between faith and false philosophy.

 

III. ARTIFICES OF THE MODERNISTS FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THEIR ERRORS

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