Today is the 99th Anniversary of the Publication of Pope St Piux X's SYLLABUS CONDEMNING THE ERRORS OF THE MODERNISTS

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"Fashion Maven" Terry, of the Rome-ing Catholics blog was in research mode today and discovered that today is the 99th anniversary of Pope St Pius X's encyclical "Lamentabili Sane" (Syllabus Condemning the Errors of the Modernists), a landmark document condemning certain modern interpretation of Church dogmas, teachings and interpretation of Holy Scripture that said that not all were divinely inspired. There are 65 items in the list. See More

Short-sightedly, those without a sense or knowledge of history, think that dissent in the Church had a long break between the time of the Protestant Revolution (the 16th century) and the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. Just reading the list in this syllabus shows that that is not correct.

Two months later, on September 8, 1907, the Pope issued another encyclical, "Pascendi Dominici Gregis" (On the Doctrine of the Modernists), that elaborated further on the problems that have faced the Church since that time.

This second encyclical of that year has a more direct connection to the Archdiocese of St Paul-Minneapolis in that its Archbishop at that time, the famous John Ireland, was considered to be one of the leaders in the movement to modernise the American Church to make it easier for immigrant Catholics to succeed in a Protestant country. The Pope frowned on such innovations.