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The Popes Against Modern Errors: 16 Papal Documents
In 1789, the French Revolution took place and launched a host of religious, political and social errors which the Popes for over 160 years afterwards wrote and legislated against. Yet most of these errors have spread and today have filtered down to the common man... with the result that most people now take for granted many fundamental assumptions that are positively false! But almost from the beginning of these errors, the Popes spoke out as with one voice, inveighing against them. Today, as we see these errors bearing evil fruit, many thoughtful Catholics are returning to those Papal documents which condemned these modern errors, to examine what the Popes have said all along about them. Here, in one handy volume, are the best and most famous of those papal denunciations: • On Liberalism (Mirari Vos). Gregory XVI. 1832. • On Current Errors (Quanta Cura). Pius IX. 1864. • The Syllabus of Errors. Pius IX. 1864. • On Government Authority (Diuturnum Illud). Leo XIII. 1881. • On Freemasonry and Naturalism (Humanum Genus). Leo XIII. 1884. • On the Nature of True Liberty (Libertas Praestantissimum). Leo XIII. 1888. • On the Condition of the Working Classes (Rerum Novarum). Leo XIII. 1891. • On Christian Democracy (Graves de Communi Re). Leo XIII. 1901. • Syllabus Condemning the Errors of the Modernists (Lamentabili Sane). St. Pius X. 1907. • On Modernism (Pascendi Dominici Gregis). St. Pius X. 1907. • Our Apostolic Mandate (On the "Sillon"). St. Pius X. 1910. • The Oath Against Modernism. St. Pius X. 1910. • On the Feast of Christ the King (Quas Primas). Pius XI. 1925. • On Fostering True Religious Unity (Mortalium Animos). Pius XI. 1928. • On Atheistic Communism (Divini Redemptoris). Pius XI. 1937. • On Certain False Opinions (Humani Generis). Pius XII. 1950. After this book, the reader will be forced to conclude: "The Popes were right all along!" Only by heeding the advice and counsel of these enlightened Roman Pontiffs will the world be able to cast off its yoke of error and enjoy once more the true freedom Our Lord spoke of when He said, "If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:31-32).
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First published November 1, 1999
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September 4, 2015
This book ought to be titled, The Popes Predict because everything that is written in this book is a prediction come true, every assumption that Modernity makes has been with us longer than we are told, it has been packaged and sold as novel and un-thought of, but these rather old writings show us that the packaging may look new and appealing but its merely the same old ideas which have thoroughly inundate our times.
The writings are straightforward from the writings of the Popes themselves, I think it is important that as Catholics, we ought to read what Popes have said prior to the Second Vatican Council, so as to re-establish ourselves in what Pope Benedict XVI called, "The Hermeneutic of Continuity" rather than "Rupture," for the Catholic Faith is rooted in Divinely Revealed Tradition, and to break away from it, would be to create a new religion with some trappings of the old.
The Popes speak on a wide variety of topics, from Theology to Morals to Politics, Economics, and Science. The only disappointment is that more Encyclicals weren't added to this book, but this book does give some of the best responses to our age, which has only amplified Modernity to a new degree. This book has a high re-readability, one can refer pretty easily to a given encyclical and a given section within a given encyclical.
The writings are straightforward from the writings of the Popes themselves, I think it is important that as Catholics, we ought to read what Popes have said prior to the Second Vatican Council, so as to re-establish ourselves in what Pope Benedict XVI called, "The Hermeneutic of Continuity" rather than "Rupture," for the Catholic Faith is rooted in Divinely Revealed Tradition, and to break away from it, would be to create a new religion with some trappings of the old.
The Popes speak on a wide variety of topics, from Theology to Morals to Politics, Economics, and Science. The only disappointment is that more Encyclicals weren't added to this book, but this book does give some of the best responses to our age, which has only amplified Modernity to a new degree. This book has a high re-readability, one can refer pretty easily to a given encyclical and a given section within a given encyclical.
August 2, 2011
Great papal writings on the problems with modernism.
January 11, 2012
Very good and important collection of Papal writings dealing with the errors common in modern society.
May 21, 2022
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February 28, 2020
Excellent compilation Church documents
Outstanding compilation of encyclicals answering problems of the Church which are affecting us today as they were in past. Serious Catholics should read.
Outstanding compilation of encyclicals answering problems of the Church which are affecting us today as they were in past. Serious Catholics should read.
February 19, 2025
Essential reading
December 29, 2023
Not unlike contemporary criticisms of leftism, has some reasonable criticism and then goes off the rails with what can’t be proven.
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