The anti-modernist Oath prescribed by Pope St. Pius X
I N. I firmly accept and believe each and every one of the defined truths, affirmed and declared by the infallible magisterium of the Church, especially those doctrinal principles which directly contradict the errors of the present time.
Primo: I believe God, beginning and end of all things, he can be known with certainty and can also be demonstrated with the lights of natural reason in the works he has accomplished (cf Rm 1,20), that is, in visible creatures, as a cause from its effects.
Second: I admit and recognize the outward evidence of revelation, that is, divine interventions, and above all miracles and prophecies, as very certain signs of the supernatural origin of the Christian religion, and I consider them perfectly suitable for all men of all times, including the one we live in.
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