Letters to His Holiness, Pope Pius X (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Letters to His Holiness, Pope Pius X (Classic Reprint) written by A. Modernist and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters to His Holiness, Pope Pius X But before going to the heart of the matter, a word must be said concerning the magnitude Of this question of Modernism. It is not a squabble intra parietes, one of the petty ecclesiastical quarrels which the student Of large problems can afford to despise. It is fundamentally a great question Of spiritual liberty, attended, as advanc ing liberty nearly always is, with the tragic element of suffering, as men strive to reach forward to the new light Of the intellect while not relinquishing the ancient loyalties Of the heart. It has brought a crisis perhaps of life and death to the mightiest religious organization that has ever existed among men. It aims at a restatement of the creed, a revolutionary change in the external polity, and a regeneration Of the inner spirit Of the mother-church Of Christendom. Upon the issue of it de pends, to an extent which those who know the move ment best are most inclined to magnify, the future place Of Roman Catholicism in the history of civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.