The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-06-25
POPE Plus X
SCORES MODERNISM
His Holiness Says Divine Protection
is Experienced Through
Prosecutions.
He Commends the Work of the
Church in the Time of Charles
BorrOmeo.
Tendency of Modernism is to Destroy
All Civil and Religious
Liberty.

To restore all things in Christ is the
motive and the guide to every act
of the Sovereign Pontiff, Plus X. And
this is put in the forefront of the great
encyclical that was published in the
| "Osservatore Romano" and which is
addressed to the Patriarchs, Primates
Archbishops, Bishops and other ordi-
naries having peace and communion
with the Apostolic See, says writer
in the Tablet of Brooklyn, N. Y.
1t is dated from Rome, near ST.
Peter's, the 26th day of May, 1910,
seventh Of Our Pontifcate.'
The Pope recalls to the minds Of
those he addresses that in the carry
ing out of the proposal he had made
to himself at the beginning of his
Pontificate to propose to the faithful
in various Encyclical Letters admir-
able examples of sanctity; above all
the Blessed Virgin Mary, then other
great saints, such as st. Gregory, the
Great, st. John Chrysotom and St.
Anselm of Aosta. For this, also, it is
most opportune to recall to mind ST.
Charles Borromeo at this time, in the
third centenary of the gloritfcatipn
attributed to him by the Church.
The Pontiff then quotes from tho
Bull Of Canonization of ST. Charles,
which was issued by Pope Paul ",
and continues. dwelling on the admir-
able dispositions of Divine Providence
through which the sadness of the
times, the impetus of persecution and
the snares of error are nothing else
than so many occasions through
which the Church may more ef1ica-
ciously experience the Divine protec-
ton. And, indeed, it is by a miracle
of the power of God, that the Church,
inasmuch as it is the mystical body
of Christ, is maintained indefectiblc
in it's Divine mission, Notwithstanding
the invasion of corruption and the
frequent deficiencies Of it's members
and that in so much the more admir-
able, as it conquers evil with good and
strives and strains to work out the
Christian renewal Of society and of
individuals.
/ Tho Time Of St. Charles.
Such infeunce of Providence in the
restorative work promoted by the
Church splendidly shines forth in the
time of st. Charles Borromeo. Then
while the passions acquired the mas
terry and the knowledge of the truth
was obscured, there rose up men who
called themselves reformers, but in
the result they were nothing but cor
rupters who overthrew the doctrine,
the constitution, the discipline of the
Church, and spread throughout the
world the terrible scourge of heresy.
Among the true reformers, whom the
Lord opposed to them, Charles Bor-
romeo singularly shone. He had all
the gifts of real reformer-virtuc
good sense, learning, authority, power,
alacrity. He had not yet completed
his twenty third year when he was
raised to supreme honors and was in
terested in the most serious and diff
cult questions and progressed every
day in virtue and in zeal; and his su-
preme care was the great work Of the
restoration of the faith and of the
universal Church which agitated the
Council of Trent. OF this admirable
work he, before being its most faith
full executor, was its most valid sup
porter. But this extreme assiduity
in the case 3of Charles Borromeo was
crowned and sustained with the con-
slant practice of piety and Of every
virtue-an interior preparation ther
despised by the so-caled reformers
but a necessity and an aliment Of the
whole Christian life.
The New Reformers.
Likewise the new reformers Of oui
times do not think, as the more
ancient ones, on such truths, and pre-.
, sumo to reform, at their caprice, faitf
: and discipline. The supreme author
lity Of the Church has denounced ant
- condemned their errors. SO much th'
, J - So sf- 4syq9s ,5f