Pius X's 1907 'Pascendi' slammed 'modernists' in the Catholic Church
(Newser) -
Pope Pius X's encyclical "Pascendi Dominici Gregis" turns 100 years old next week. The document decried so-called "modernists" in the Church who looked to new discoveries and theories about human experience and desire to explain religious belief. The ensuing purge of Catholic thinkers did not relent until Paul...