Oath Against Modernism

The Oath Against Modernism was required of "all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries"[1] of the Catholic Church from 1910 until 1967. It was instituted on 1 September 1910 by Pope Pius X in his motu proprio Sacrorum antistitum and rescinded on 17 July 1967 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with the approval of Paul VI.[2]

The oath marked the culmination of Pius X's campaign against the theological movement of modernism, which he extensively analyzed and denounced as heretical in his 1907 encyclicals Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu. Thomas Pègues, O.P. was also influential in the anti-modernist movement within the Church.[3]

The Oath Against Modernism is still pronounced by some of the clergy who are members of traditionalist Catholic movements, such as the Society of Saint Pius X,[4] the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen,[5] and the Istituto Mater Boni Consilii.[6]

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References
  1. Pope Pius X (1910-09-01). "The Oath Against Modernism". Papal Encyclicals. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  2. "Formula to adopt from now on in cases in which the Profession of Faith is prescribed by law in substitution of the Tridentine formula and the oath against modernism, 17 July 1967". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  3. As is expressed in his 1907 Revue Thomiste article "L'hérésie du renouvellement": Puisque c'est en se separant de la scolastique et de saint Thomas que la pensée moderne s'est perdue, notre unique devoir et notre seul moyen de la sauver est de lui rendre, si elle le veut, cette meme doctrine." Translation: "Since it is in departing from scholasticism and from Saint Thomas that the modernist thinkers have gone astray, our sole duty and our sole means of saving them is to bring them back, if they are willing, to this same doctrine." - Dictionnaire du monde religieux dans la France contemporaine, https://books.google.com/books?id=K4onSytrit0C&pg=PA520 Accessed 6-9-2011.
  4. "The Anti-Modernist Oath". District of the USA. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  5. "On the Oath Against Modernism". Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. 2016-09-22.
  6. "In merito all'elezione di Jorge M. Bergoglio". Sodalitium (in Italian). 2016-02-26. First of all, the members of the Institute intend here to publicly renew their profession of Catholic faith of the Council of Trent and the first Vatican (DH 1862-1870) and the anti-modernist oath (DH 3537-3550)
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