In 1907,, Pope St. Pius X issued an encyclical so urgent it required every Catholic clergyman and teacher to swear an oath against Modernism. He called it "the synthesis of all heresies." Over a century later, his diagnosis of the two roots of Modernism - curiosity and pride masquerading as reform- sound eerily prophetic. In this episode, we examine Pascendi Dominici Gregis through the lens of current events.
When Pope Benedict XV named the four sins tearing society apart in 1914, he was describing 2026.This show exists to make that connection plain — to show that the answers to our most modern problems were written down long ago, and forgotten.
In 1929, Pope Pius XI wrote "Divini Illius Magistri" — an encyclical that predicted the crisis in education we're living through today. Long before debates about school curriculum, COVID closures, and parental rights, the Catholic Church laid out a radically different vision for who should control education.
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