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CARDINAL PIE: A VOICE FOR OUR APOSTATE TIMES
Here are some fantastic thoughts from Cardinal Pie,
Bishop of Poitiers, who lived from 1815-1880. His
writings were among the favorites of the great Saint
Pius X. I read this with amazement over at
De Fide Catholica
and thought this should be spread far and wide. For
more on the man and his life visit
De Fide.
ON THE “SO-CALLED” CATHOLICS WHO PLAY VAIN
NOVELTIES: "Hear this
maxim, O you, Catholics full of temerity, who so
quickly adopt the ideas and the language of your
time, you who speak of reconciling the faith and of
reconciling the Church with the modern spirit and
with the new law. And you who accept with so much
confidence the most dangerous pursuits of what our
age so pridefully labels "Science," see to what
extent you are straying from the program set out by
the great Apostle, "O Timothy, keep that which is
committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane
novelties of words, and oppositions of knowledge
falsely so-called" (I Tim. 6:20). But take heed. With
such temerities, one is soon led farther than he
first had thought. And in placing themselves on the
slope of profane novelties—in obeying the currents of
so-called science—many have lost the Faith.
“Have you not often been saddened, and taken fright,
my venerable brothers, on hearing the language of
certain men, who believe themselves still to be sons
of the Church, men who still practice occasionally as
Catholics and who often approach the Lord's Table? Do
you still believe them to be sons, do you still
believe them to be members of the Church, those who,
wrapping themselves in such vague phrases as modern
aspirations and the force of progress and
civilization, proclaim the existence of a
"consciousness of the laity," of a secular and
political conscience opposed to the "conscience of
the Church," against which they assume the right to
react, for its correction and renewal? Ah! So many
passengers, and even pilots, who, believing
themselves to be yet in the barque, and playing with
profane novelties and the lying science of their
time, have already sunk
