The Modernist movement has from the first appealed to Newman as its founder, and has sought to protect itself under his authority.
Two words are constantly in the mouth of Modernist controversialists in speaking of their opponents.
Protestants, in fact, had recourse to this method of apologetic before the Modernist movement arose.
Thus the dethronement of tradition by the Pope contributed to make the Modernistmovement possible.
The healthy human intellect will never believe that the same proposition may be true for faith and untrue in fact; but this is the Modernist contention.
Faith is not the born storyteller of Modernist theology.
The Modernist movement, properly so called, belongs to the last twenty years, and most of the literature dates from the present century.
The Modernist priest, it appears, can still say 'Ora pro nobis' to a Mary whose biography he believes to be purely mythical.
The Modernist might argue that he is only extending to the history of the Church the doctrine of education by experience which Newman found to be true in the life-history of the individual.
But the Modernist critics start with very well-defined presuppositions.
Readers unfamiliar with Modernist literature will probably have read the foregoing extracts with utter amazement.
We have given our reasons for rejecting theModernist attempt at reconstruction.
They should be exceedingly careful not to give their imprimatur to books which are Modernistin any way.
The care which bishops as delegates of the Holy See, should take to keep from their priests and the faithful all Modernist writings.
The Pope then points out the principles which the Modernist theologian makes use of.
Having no ears for this essential message of Christianity, the modernist also has no eyes for its history.
The modernist wishes to reconcile the church and the world.
At this point the modernist first chooses the path which must lead him away, steadily and for ever, from the church which he did not think to desert.
This is a doctrine which the modernist philosophers themselves emphasise, as does M.
What was foolishness to the Greeks of St. Paul's day spread mightily among them one or two hundred years later; and what is foolishness to the modernist of to-day may edify future generations.
Last rehearsal for the world premier of a modernist opera!
One winter morning years ago the music critics of Paris sat and laughed themselves green in the face over the incomprehensible banalities of an impossible modernist opera called "Tannhäuser.
Don Alonso got into the habit of visiting the Corralón; he would exchange a few words with Rebolledo, he of the modernist barber-shop who chattered away, and would witness the gymnastic prowess of Aristas.
Prime minister Bethmann-Hollweg declared on March 7: "Catholic students will get their training at the Catholic faculties the same as hitherto, even after the anti-modernist oath is introduced.
This anti-modernist oath at once became the signal for a storm of indignation, than which there has been hardly a greater one since the days of the Vatican Council.
Therefore the anti-modernist oath has not created anything new.
No Modernist would admit that this document represents his views fairly.
Three months later the Pope issued a long Encyclical letter, containing an elaborate study of Modernist opinions, and ordaining various measures for stamping out the evil.
His correspondent wrote to suggest that after all the sermon would be more fitly entrusted to the Modernist Bishop of Dunchester himself.
Here was a woman to whom the whole Modernist Movement was anathema, driven finally into argument for the purpose of compelling the Modernist leader, the contriver and general of Modernist victory, to remain at his post!
The sweetness of Mary's attempt to bring out everything in the Modernist demonstration that might be bearable or even consoling to Catharine, and to leave untold what must pain her, was not lost upon her mother.
Yet through the length and breadth of the country the Modernist petition to Parliament was now kindling such a fire as no resistance could put out.
The effect of the various encyclicals and of the ill-advised attempt to make both clergy and laity sign the Modernist decrees has had a prodigious effect all over France--precisely in the opposite sense to that desired by Pius X.
What change that any Modernistproposes could equal that?
They pondered the crowds which had begun to throng the Modernist churches, the extraordinary growth of the Modernist press, and the figures reported day by day as to the petition to be presented to Parliament in February.
Notice of appeal to the Privy Council was at once given by the Modernist counsel, and a flame of discussion arose throughout England.
He shows you the modernist wandering in the wilderness of speculative theology looking for the Truth which the traditionalist, safe, warm, and secure of eternal life, keeps whole and undefiled in his fortress.
There is another place in which she must look for the truth of Christ, a truth as completely overlooked by the modernist as by the traditionalist: it is in the movements of the soul, in the world of living men.
Whether such a man calls himself traditionalist or modernist does not greatly matter.
And again, writing of Catholic Modernism in France: We have given our reasons for rejecting the Modernist attempt at reconstruction.
He is a conservative modernist because his reason has convinced him of the truth of reasonable modernism, because he has "that intellectual honesty which dreads what Plato calls 'the lie in the soul' even more than the lie on the lips.
The modernist is one whose knowledge of Christ is so personal and direct that it does not depend on miracle or any accident of His earthly life.
He is a modernistbecause he is an intellectual ascetic.
But the Portuguese-speaking republic shows no figure approaching the epochal Rubén Darío, whose life and labours fairly sum up the modernist era in Spanish America.
In this controversy, although not yet a Catholic, he showed the gulf between the Modernist theory of development and the Newman doctrine, with a clarity greater than any Catholic writer of the time.
However, there are a few men to whom the modernist owes much for intelligent assistance.
To many Christians the encyclical "Pascendi" revealed a danger that they themselves had never suspected; and the account of the Modernist doctrines which it so lucidly gave was for them a lesson more eloquent than any censure.
Loisy's condemnation let loose an outburst in the rationalist, anti-clerical and Modernist press.
The Modernist movement had quickened a thousand dim dreams of reunion into enthusiastic hopes," wrote Father Tyrrell, the leader of Modernism in England, "when lo!
Faith and science to the Modernist are separate, the latter being supreme, and religious dogmas are not only inadequate but must be changeable to be adapted to living needs.
The other was Norton Pyford, the modernist composer, who had developed the study of discord to such a point that his very features seemed to lack proportion, and when he smiled his face presented a lop-sided appearance.
Modernist music, acting on unusual souls as classical music on ordinary souls, stimulated the flagging conversational powers of the guests, and he was soon surrounded by a gesticulating group of dissenting or condoning critics.
But with this analysis of what may be called the intellectual presuppositions of Robert Elsmere, my mind began to turn to what I believed to be the other side of the Greenian or Modernist message--i.
The lines which recognize him as in the same category as Shakespeare, only say what even modernist critics admit to-day--that he created a new world and peopled it with creatures of his imagination who are as real as those of real life.
We cannot resist the feeling that Punch was more pleased by the Pope's embarrassment in dealing with this modernist than anxious to see Romanism reformed from within.
