Pascendi and the Pope Who Didn't 'Trust the Science'
He saw the infection long before the fever hit. Modernism, he said in Pascendi (1907), splits faith and science like warring kingdoms–but only so that one may quietly enslave the other.
Science, they say, concerns the “reality of phenomena,” and faith must confine itself to the unknowable and invisible. This sounds peaceful enough–like a boundary treaty between two reasonable nations–but it’s actually a bloodless revolution.
Before we dismiss Pius X as another pre-Vatican II curmudgeon, it’s worth reading his words in full. He diagnosed, over a century ago, what we now call “settled science.”
Modernism splits faith and science like warring kingdoms–but only so that one may quietly enslave the other.
A particular section of Pascendi speaks specifically to faith and science. It is dense, but worth reading and re-reading if necessary.
Author's summary: Pope Pius X predicted the conflict between faith and science.
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