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Father Jean Baptiste Lemius, Catechism on Modernism. According to the Encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis of His Holiness Pius, Lift up your hearts 2018, pages. 156, euro 10,00
Modernism is «synthesis of all heresies». It is a "system of delusions" that "opens the way to atheism". The first and immediate cause of Modernism lies «in the aberration of the intellect». As its remote or moral causes we recognize "curiosity not wisely curbed and pride". The modernists, Furthermore, «they owe their deceptions and trappings to total ignorance of scholastic philosophy». To "mislead people" they use a "double tactic". They laugh, they despise and marginalize the wise; finally they dedicate themselves with zeal, openly or behind sophistries, to the "fierce fight against the Religion of Jesus Christ". Nonetheless, modernists also know how to be flatterers and attentive to human respect. They agitate their "counsels of destruction within the Church", the danger lurks "almost in her very veins and bowels". The "most obvious" clue to recognizing a modernist is the "craze for novelty". The modernist «goes against the Magisterium, against Tradition, against history". True Catholics "are marked by the modernists with the utmost malice and envy". In this volume Father Jean Baptiste Lemius (1851 – 1938), using the Pascendi dominici gregis di Papa San Pio X, illustrates Modernism to the simple, highlights the dangers and indicates the remedies. A Catechism on Modernism composed of 510 articles in the form of question and answer, introduced by Card. Merry del Val, blessed by the Pontiff and the Holy Church. It is a necessary antidote to survive the many "chairs of plague that inculcate their destructive doctrines in churches, in congresses, in books, in society". Irresponsible use of the internet has made the situation much worse. In the 20th century most of the protagonists of Modernism, many already condemned by the Church, they were surprisingly elevated to "fathers" and "doctors" within the Second Vatican revolution. The book «Catechism on Modernism», by Upward Hearts, it was edited by the Lucanian journalist and essayist Carlo Di Pietro. Sursum Corda is non-profit and uses its entire income for association activities and for spiritual and corporal works of mercy.
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