All these prescriptions and those of Our Predecessor are to be borne in mind whenever there is question of choosing directors and professors for seminaries and Catholic Universities.
Anybody who in any way is found to be imbued with Modernism is to be excluded without compunction from these offices, and those who already occupy them are to be withdrawn.
The same policy is to be adopted towards those who favour Modernism either by extolling the Modernists or excusing their culpable conduct, by criticising scholasticism, the Holy Father, or by refusing obedience to ecclesiastical authority in any of its depositaries; and towards those who show a love of novelty in history, archaeology, biblical exegesis, and finally towards those who neglect the sacred sciences or appear to prefer to them the profane.
In all this question of studies, Venerable Brethren, you cannot be too watchful or too constant, but most of all in the choice of professors, for as a rule the students are modelled after the pattern of their masters. Strong in the consciousness of your duty, act always prudently but vigorously.
Equal diligence and severity are to be used in examining and selecting candidates for Holy Orders. Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty! God hates the proud and the obstinate. For the future the doctorate of theology and canon law must never be conferred on anybody who has not made the regular course of scholastic philosophy; if conferred it shall be held as null and void.
The rules laid down in 1896 by the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars for the clerics, both secular and regular, of Italy concerning the frequenting of the Universities, We now decree to be extended to all nations. Clerics and priests inscribed in a Catholic Institute or University must not in the future follow in civil Universities those courses for which there are chairs in the Catholic Institutes to which they belong.
If this has been permitted anywhere in the past, We ordain that it be not allowed for the future. Let the Bishops who form the Governing Board of such Catholic Institutes or Universities watch with all care that these Our commands be constantly observed.
I've never heard this before, but it says so right there in the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism
> "Most sedevacantists believe that the Holy See has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. Others believe that there is no certainty of the vacancy until the moment before Pope Paul VI promulgated Lumen Gentium, which sedevacantists regard as heretical. Very few others regard the Holy See to be vacant since the death of Pope John XXIII in 1963, the death of Pope Paul VI in 1978, or even the death of Pope Pius X in 1914. "
I want to know more but there is of course no citation for this claim so I'm at a dead end. Searching for a person/group who believes this is also tricky because it just turns up a bunch of articles on the SSPX.
I would be very curious to hear why people believe this (if they actually exist.) In all my research on sedevecantism I have never seen anyone say the seat was vacant earlier than 1958.
Glorious St. Joseph,
model of all those who are devoted to labour,
obtain for me the grace to work conscientiously,
putting the call of duty above my many sins;
to work with thankfulness and joy,
considering it an honour to employ and develop,
by means of labour,
the gifts received from God;
to work with order,
peace, prudence and patience,
never surrendering to weariness or difficulties;
to work, above all, with purity of intention,
and with detachment from self,
having always death before my eyes
and the account which I must render of time lost,
of talents wasted,
of good omitted,
of vain complacency in success
so fatal to the work of God.
All for Jesus,
all for Mary,
all after thy example,
O Patriarch Joseph.
Such shall be my motto in life and death.
I am planning to teach CCD this coming school year - middle school age. I have an idea of placing a statue or image of the Blessed Mother or other saints on my desk when I walk into class, to create an atmosphere of seriousness - a way of sacralizing the space, in a way. One saint that I was thinking could be a good example is Pope St. Pius X. He had a great devotion to our Eucharistic Lord, a strong Marian devotion, and he was a great defender of Church teaching against corruptions stemming from the spirit of the age - which is relevant today with the pressures that young people face today to compromise their faith with the LGBT ideology and universalism and so forth.
Does anyone know where I can get a desk-sized or icon of him?
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived by the cunning statements of those who persistently claim to wish to be with the Church, to love the Church, to fight so that people do not leave Her...But judge them by their works.
If they despise the shepherds of the Church and even the Pope, if they attempt all means of evading their authority in order to elude their directives and judgments..., then about which Church do these men mean to speak? Certainly not about that established on the foundations of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone (Eph. 2:20).
[Pope St. Pius X: Allocution of May 10, 1909]
The only way to fight the evil in the Church is from within Her. I know that disloyal priests and bishops seem to be prevalent now more than ever. If we would spend as much energy doing prayer, penance, and reparation, as we do squabbling, we would be better off and have a much bigger impact on the state of the Church.
The history of the Catholic Church is a history marked by success and failure, by sanctity and by sin, by splendor and by corruption. This of course is the history of the visible Church, the hierarchical model; through it all, the mystical Marian Church remains pure and loyal. In good times and bad, the sacraments are administered, the Eucharist is celebrated; Christ is with his Church, offering salvation. The invisible work of the Church is always the first priority.
https://preview.redd.it/dvcas3qk7q971.jpg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a627fe24d97370843eb4bfc9d2f79c39d03902a
Newly discovered information housed in the Vatican shows that the Pope knew specifically that extermination camps existed and the Popeβs advisors told him to pass on the information that it was not real. He did just that. He hid the crimes of the Nazis to the US.
I understand the Pope is human, and just like anyone else can make mistakes. Doesnβt though this HUGE oversight to protect innocent people take a huge bite out of the concept that the Pope is a moral authority, and that he can use his Papal Infallibility to declare the word of God?
I donβt really buy the concept personally that the Vaticanβs βneutralityβ was a defense mechanism to defend the church or its people by allowing other people to die instead. One person is not more worthy of life over another morally.
Obviously in times of war there are many things at play. Lying about intelligence though seems a line too far.
Wanted to share with you a quick story about what just happened to me. Just yesterday and today I've been thinking a lot of Pope Pius X as I'm new to learning about his hard stance against modernism. I went as far as today looking on ebay for Pope Pius medals. Only to discover randomly by chance clicking on a website that showed today was his feast day. I'm a little blown away right now, but just wanted to share that story.
Hello.
So you can find the english version of the Catechism in several places, like here , here and there
Well, first of all, only the last one has the very very last chapter "Work of mercy" at the bottom while the first two don't have it for whatever reason...Have they added it themselves from another tongue and the english version don't have it ? PS: From what I can see, the redaction is very different in the english version, which makes me believe that it was added by the website and that this chapter "Work of mercy" is not included in the english version of the Catechism...Moreover, when seeing the table of content of the kindle edition of the english Catechism "Work of mercy" is not in the table.
Anyway, here is the french version, here or there
I'll base my analysis on the first french link.
First of all, you can see that the chronological order of the catechism is different between the English version and the French version, but the structural order is the same.
When you compare the two lists attentively, you can see that the french version has more chapters than the English version.
Under the chapter of The Apostleβs Creed/Le symbole des ApΓ΄tres ou Credo, it doesn't seem that the french version has more chapters than the english version
Under the chapter of Prayer/La prière, the french version has one more chapter than the english version
Under the chapter of On the Commandments of God and of the Church/Les commandements de Dieu et de lβΓglise, the french version has one more chapters (with two points) than the english version
- [Chapter: Les devoirs particuliers de chaque Γ©tat et les conseils Γ©vangΓ©liques./ The particular duties of each state
> How about Pope St Pius X? Heβs the true first Polish Pope.
I encountered that in a Reddit post some days ago. Following up, I found that the idea is present on Trad Catholic websites like the Bellarmine Forum:
> Pope Pius X was born in Italy to parents that had immigrated to Italy after the Prussian occupation. They were granted political asylum. Jan Krawiec, from Wielkopolska, was a tailor, and in order to blend in to Italy, changed his name to Giovanni Battista Sarto. Sarto means tailor in Italy, so Giuseppe chose the name because it represented what he was. Years later, he and his wife gave birth to Giuseppe, who we now know as Pope Pius X.
https://bellarmineforum.org/5-surprising-things-about-st-pius-x/
And the "Daily Catholic:
> His father Giovanni Battista Sarto, a former postman and yet a cobbler by trade, died when Joseph was very young in 1852. Giovanni had been born Jan Krawiec in Wielkopolska, Poland, a tailor by trade. When Poland fell into Prussian hands, Jan and his wife sought political asylum in Italy.
http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2003Sep/spioxbio.htm
And in certain Polish-language sources like this one from the Polish Franciscans:
> Ojciec JΓ³zefa - Jan Sarto (co po wΕosku znaczy βkrawiecβ) - z zawodu listonosz, byΕ Polakiem, ktΓ³ry βza chlebemβ wyemigrowaΕ do WΕoch.
https://www.franciszkanie.pl/artykuly/sw-pius-x-syn-polaka-tercjarz-i-papiez-1835-1914
And this one from the Polish-language website of the Society of Saint Pius X, though they treat it as "hey, maybe!" rather than a certainty:
> Na koniec warto jeszcze wspomnieΔ, ΕΌe wedΕug pewnych niepotwierdzonych ΕΊrΓ³deΕ ojciec Piusa X byΕ z pochodzenia... Polakiem (!), emigrantem z Opolszczyzny, i nazywaΕ siΔ Krawiec (sarto znaczy po wΕosku wΕaΕnie βkrawiecβ).
https://www.piusx.org.pl/sw-pius-x/
This idea was thoroughly debunked on numerous occasions, most recently (and most easily-cited) in a 2016 publication called "Pius X in the cultural memory of Upper Silesia," which, as described in this publication affiliated with the Museum of Polish History, said the following (translated by the OP):
> Ample documents attesting to his Italian descent were found and presented. T
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