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THE POPE AND MODERNISM.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 615, 1907.

By Father Georgs Tyrrell in the Tinued].

Nor will sarcasm, mitire, and invective attrsot the truly charitable and devout to a system that seems to stand in mood of such weapons of the flesh.....

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prizes still more the unlavened bread of sincerity and truth. To spede would be to allow that his calumolators were in the right; that Catholicism was bound hand and fook to its The barsh intellectualium, the almost fierce sobelastic interpretation and to ir medieval. antagonism to all inward religious experience Church policy; that the Pope had no daties and As an argument the Enoyolical falle dead for

and union with God which pervade the docam-the people no right. It would be to abandon evary one who regards ils soienes theory as

what he believes to be the tenth, at the mome,t obsolete; for all who believe that truth bus notent will probably aliessts the sympathies of heon stagusting for centuries in theological multitudes who, in spite of a hundred repugn-of its gresist betrayal.

auces, are continually drawn towards the Catho- What he will most doaply regret is the loan seminarles, but has beau steadily stroming on, lie Church as the mother of saints auit mystics of one of the Church's grastast opportunities with ever

ever-increasing force and volume, in the

and who sea in mysticism that firm basis of of proving herself the saviour of the nations, channels which liberty has opened to its progress, religion which no logic, no argument from Rarely in her history had the eyes of all been

If to the elaborate pictare of "modern Catholicism it opposes no equally elaborate will be shocked, so caltivated minds will be hope that she might have bread for the

motion,"

can ever supply. And as devout souls waiting upon her more expectantly, in the picture of scholastle Catholicism, it in brosuse this latter is assumed as well-known, or may be revolted by a blow struck, not merely against starving millions, for those who are troublad of to-day, in principle, by that vague hunger for God on which the inferred from ita counterpart, as anbalange from the "modernists

Protestantism shadow. Let us, however, take a parting glance against their spiritual ancestry-against those Encyclical pours such cora

Bazes in the past to which Catholics mast in its bast thinkers and representatives had at the substance before passing on.

readily appeal in proof of their Church's grown dissatisfied with its raie sutithesis to contribution to enlightenment and progTEKS.

Catholicism and was beginning to wonder are they cot been proud,, and justly prond, whether Rome too had not grown dissatisfied Mabillon, and Richard Simon, and of Notman and Rosmini, and Paschal, and with her rigid inedievalisms. The" modernist" the movement had quickened a thousand dim Bollandists, and of numberless pioneers in the drains of rousion into enthusiatic hopes. When to! Pias X. comes forward with a stone mathode of thought and anti-rationalistic in one hand and a scorpion in the other. philosophy of men who in life and after death Thousands of the most deeply religions souls have been tormented and slandered by scholastic scandalized by the crude identification, of scho

sologions, but who held out bravely for a lasticism with Catholicism, will be kept from the Catholicism and von respect for a cause Church and from these graces, saoraments, and which their adversaries had made childish and helps to which they have infinitely more right dow, Nor ridiculous? Each pride is struck dumb by the then many "children of the kingdoma Enofolical, which would compel us to say that can the wholesale alienation of the edussted these men were in the Charoh, but not of it. classes, with its imple-contenipt of the clerical Nay it is doubtful if sympathy will abound oreo mind, tell otherwise than disastrously on the where it might most be fooled for with thego less educated multitudes, already rapidly falling who, like Mr. Spencer Jones and his friends, away from the Church, who in the mattera are out-Heroding Herod in the cause of sacar invariably follow from afar the fashion of their dotal authority, bat who may now be brought bitters. The scandal of the strong is over the tendancies. In one quarter alone will the to passe in face of the logical issue of their greatest scandal of the weak. document be received with unequivocal and

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One thing is certain. Notonly in spite of, but bcause of, the repressive measures of Pins X.

Religion is derived deductive reasoning by from natural and miraculous phenomena. God is not reached through inward religious experience, but by argument: The divinity of 687,500 0 0 Christ. and Christianity can be thus argued so 3,896,720 1989 to coerce the understanding. The fields of historical criticians, and dynamical

Catholic Church, with the Papacy, the sora- ments, and all its institutione and dogmas, was, in its entirety, the immediate creation of Christ when upon earth. There has been no vital development, but only mechanical unpacking of what was given from the first. The Scripturos were distaled by God, and

are final questions of science and history. All doctrinal kui lance and ecclesiastical authority is mediated through the infallible Pops from God to the Church, The Church is the purely passive recipient of the guidance as received. The Bishops aro mere delegates of the Pops: the priests of the Bishops. The laity have no concerns; still loss in the so-called growth of active share of any kind in ecclesiastical the Church's mind. Obedience and peoniery Fuocour are their sole duties. Science is subject in the control of scholastic theology; scalar most significant approval. Sceptic and schol-modernism" has made more rapid and startling government is subject to the control of ecelesiastic, born of one, mother of the all-or-no-advances in the last five years than in the pre- astical government in mixed matters. Thoir thing" principle--have ever joined hands ceding twenty. Whether this larger dose of the

and

forgotten their differences over the same medicine will cure or aggravats the disease jurisdiction is in the same order, only in different departments. There has been no true prostrate defender of a via media. They hate is yet to be seen. The value of the prescription enlightenment and progress in modern times one another; but they hate him more One depende usually on the truth of the diagnosis.

wishes them joy of their alliance.

While making pride and curiosity the sources of outside the Church, There is no element of

The Boepic of the more aggressive srt is the evil, the Encyclical does not explain how truth in any other religious systein.

For the Middle Agas with their statioal always delighted at any new proof of the essential these causes, always and everywhere at work, modes of thought, their eruds conceptions of abeardity of Catholicism; always indignant at have suddenly become fraitfal in this particular!

**modernizers

who try to separate it from the form at this particular time It bewails, but does government and authority, derived from Pagan medieval expression and show that it is adaptable not explain, that league which disregarding Imperialism, their view of physical low as analogous to civil law, imposed or abrogated.

to overy ago. And Roms naively welcome this differences of race and religion, binds all the at the will of the law giver, there was perhaps indignation, heedlose of its soures and motive; critics and historians so tightly together. It no other way of apprehending Christianity, and greedily swallows the supercilious complimarks as an iosxplicable marvel the almost which, however, is older than, and therefore ments of her enemies, in her eagerness to bring frenzied energy, the unity, and varsstility of the the testimony of any sort against the hated modernists; nor does it inquire why zeal for separable from these categories. The Ency.

now ideas always goes hand in hand with a clical holds to such estageries still, but rightly advocate of the via media.

hatred of the scholastic method." There are or wrongly the world has swapt them aside:

causes of can.es, and till we can get at the root nor will say argument, however ingenious,

Citera our remedies may be far worse than which assumes their validity reosive the slight-

useless. ost attention. No sneh instauratio omnium need be hoped or feared.

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accused of any sort of state oppor unism. general. Certainly the Popa sannist ba To do bia justice, the Pops shows but littis Never was man more bonestly fearless and confidence in the spiritual weapon of logical reckless in the cause of his principles; nor is it argumentation; and, though the secular arm is possible not to admire the strength, however somewhat weakened since the good old days, he little one may approve the direction, of this trusts mainly to what may yat be done in the vigorous blow from the shoulders But will this way of external repression and caersion. In clear exposition of the tenets of scholastio spite of the long-and atrenuous efforts of Lo theology and of ittolaim to control of dictate to XIII. to enforce scholasticism, it seems that the bistors and scienos, will the frankly in-

of modernist," ailment of

, for the most part quisitorial methods by which this slim is to be educated in nominaries, is a profound ignorancs enforced, will this root-and-branch repudist.on of scholasticism. Ons wondera irresistibly of what moderna believe to be enlightenment, encourage modera Governments to satrust the whether a profound knowledge of scholasticism might not have something to do with their de- Pope's episcopal delegates with the control of fection. However, where Leo and numbers of bis public education? The question answers itself.

No modernist has any right whatever to be predecessors failed, Pins A top te protons of surprised at this Enopolios; though he may precisely the aime ensotments. Then professora and their pupils are to he watshed, the former perhaps be surprised at the unusual courage and to be deposed or pat to obscure and humiliating employments, the latter to be dismissed, ou ther slightest. symptom of the spidemic. Infested literature is to dragged from the bands of clergy and laity, cansorship to be re-enforced for the thousandth time, raunions of the lower olergy to be discouraged, disoessa inquisitions to be established to spy and denounes, in the fashion exemplified by Mgr. Montaguini, and all the traditional machinery of eccle.iastical coercion to be set going,

will be The Välievo,

Bat by way of sop to science, and Lo mitigata the apparent obscurantism of the Enerelical, an academy of Catholic sants is to be founded at Rome, which, we are told,

apology for Catholicism. yo, while promating their work, nye the Echo de Paris, will direct their labours and prevent their authors from exceeding the limits of revealed doctrine and placing them selves in opposition to it." This is plainly a extension of the ides which gave birth to the Biblical Commission, and will not doubt be sa fruitfal of enlightenment to the world at large We may be sure that such problems as in wise encroach on the somewhat indefinite and wide-spreading territory of scholastic philosophy and theology will be discussed with the atmost scientific freedom.

diplomacy and equivocation, is not afraid to candour which, throwing aside all on tomary present to an astonished world the fall logical" consequences, practical as well as speculative, of in all their naked uncon- Vlastio theology

After all, is only what he has been working and hoping for a clear and fiel demonstration of the futility of pouring new wine into old bottles; of the attempt to gather the experienes of the twentieth century under the categories of the thirteenth of "coming to torms" with an age that is dead and buried in a word, of squatting with the impossible, He should seeia this Encyclical full blossom and expression of a tenderoy which for conturles before the Reformation was straggling with its opposite for mastery over the Church, and which then, under the name of the Counter- Reformation, was pushed to this logical and in- evitable development by the industry of an order tralization. Thaught by history, God's great devoted to the principles of absolut au sol cau- logic-mill, which has worked out both theer sixteenth contury solutions--the solution of liberty-to their impossible resalts, he will see unfettered anthority, the solution of anfetteret the hood of going back to the point of diver

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