The Irish standard., 1907-12-14

Roman congregations approved by this
Pontiff; nor can all those escape tho
note of disobedience or temerlty. and
consequently Of grave sin, who in
cisions, and this besides the scandal
they give and the other reasons for
which they may be responsible before
God for other tcrcrities and errors
which generally go with such contra
dictions.
Moreover, in order to check the daily
increasing audacity Of many modern-
lists who arc cndcavoring by all kinds
Of sophistry and devices to detract
from the force and efficacy not only OF
tho decree "Lamentabi1i sane exitu'
tso-call"d SylIabus) issued by our orr
der by tho Holy Roman and Universal
tnuulsition on July 3 OF the present
Year, but also OF our encyclical letters
"Pasccndi dominici gregts" given on
Sertemher S Of this same year, We do
by our apostolic authority repeat and
conllrm both that decree OF the Su-
"nryrical letters of ours, adding the
penalty Of cxcommunication against
their rontradictors. and this we de.
! clare and decree that should anybody.
whcl, may God forbid, be 80 rash az
To defend any one OF the propositions.
| opinions ~ teachings condemned in
these documents lie falls. ipso facto.
under the censurc contained under the
; chapter "Deccntes'' of the constitution
"apostolicae Sedis." which is the first
among the accommodations latoe sem
tentiac. simply reserved to the Roman
PontiT. This exnommunication is to
be understood as salvis poenis. which
may be incurred by those who have
violated in any way the said documents,
as propagators and defenders of here
sies. when their propositions, opinions
, and teachings are heretical, as has
happened more than onoe in the case
of the adversaries Of both these docu-
merits, especially when they advocate
the errors of the modernists; that in.
the synthesis Of all l1eresies.
Wherefore we again and most earn.
esty exhort the ordinaries Of the dio-
ceses and the heads Of religious con-
gregations to use the utmost vigilance
over teachers. and first of all in the
| selnnaries; and should they find any
Of them imbued with the errors of the
| modernists Or lacking In docility to
the prescriptions Of the apostolic see.
in whatsoever way published. let them
absolutely forbid the teaching office to
such; SO too let them exclude from
sacred orders those young men who
give the very faintest reason for doubt
that they favor condemned doctrines
| and pernicious novelties. We exhort
! them also to take diligent care to put
an end to those books and other writ
ings, now growing exceedingly numer-
cies of the kind condemned in the ell
cyclical letters and decree above men,
toned: let them see to 1t that these
publications are removed from Catho-
lie publishing houses. and especially
from the hands Of students and the
clergy. BY doing this they will at the
same time be promoting real and solid
education, which should always be
subject of the greatest solicitude for
those who exercise sacred authority.
All these things we will and order
to be sanctioned and established by
our apostolic authority, aught to the
contrary notwithstanding. Given at
Rome in Saint Peter's, the 18th No
| vember. 1907. the fifth year of Our
Pontiaoate. Plus, PIP. X.
The "Motu Proprio" was quite unsk-
pected and naturally 1t produced .
great impression, the more so as this
new accommodation. following 20
closely on the two preceding onDs Of