"We are dealing with a modernism renovated and perfected..."
Oct 30, 2019 14:57:59 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2019 14:57:59 GMT
The final chapter of Bishop Tissier de Mallerais' "Faith Imperiled by Reason: Benedict XVI's Hermeneutics" is a little gold mine. The Bishop shines a light to help us understand the erroneous foundation that the Conciliar clergy frequently invoke when they speak what sounds like heresy. It also highlights why they cannot be accused of formal heresy, i.e. they do not deny dogma, but 'reinterpret' it according to modernist principles cemented in Vatican II.
Fr. Hewko, summarizing Pascendi, says [reprinted here with his permission], "That is why it is not so simple to declare these [Conciliar] Popes as heretics, because wretched Modernism has them thinking they are quite in line with the evolution of dogmas for our age! They don't necessarily think they are going against Catholicism but helping it evolve to the next stage of development!! This is why Abp. Lefebvre called it drenched in subjectivist philosphy!"
Excerpt from Bp. Tissier de Mallerais:
To conclude, I would like to say that today we are dealing with a modernism renovated and perfected. The modernists considered dogmas to be products of religious experience, and as mere symbols serving to renovate this experience unceasingly. A century later, the immanent providence of all the divine mysteries is no longer affirmed. They are simply put between parentheses so as to seek for them only an existentialist or personalist vital significance.
No longer are denied either dogmas or the decisions of the past magesterium, but they are revisited so as to have for them a ‘conscious understanding’ which was lacking to past popes and doctors, an understanding (Verstehen) purificatrice from past, pretended circumstance and assimilatrice of present circumstance. No one becomes an atheist or heretic openly; no, simply, thanks to the tool of modern philosophy, the real Trinity is rethought, the real incarnation is disincarnated, the real redemption is sublimated, Christ the real King is relativized; will the real God be replaced next? [Emphasis - mine]
CHAPTER X - Skeptical Supermodernism
To conclude, I would like to say that today we are dealing with a modernism renovated and perfected. The modernists considered dogmas to be products of religious experience, and as mere symbols serving to renovate this experience unceasingly. A century later, the immanent providence of all the divine mysteries is no longer affirmed. They are simply put between parentheses so as to seek for them only an existentialist or personalist vital significance.
No longer are denied either dogmas or the decisions of the past magesterium, but they are revisited so as to have for them a ‘conscious understanding’ which was lacking to past popes and doctors, an understanding (Verstehen) purificatrice from past, pretended circumstance and assimilatrice of present circumstance. No one becomes an atheist or heretic openly; no, simply, thanks to the tool of modern philosophy, the real Trinity is rethought, the real incarnation is disincarnated, the real redemption is sublimated, Christ the real King is relativized; will the real God be replaced next? [Emphasis - mine]