Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-13
PREACHER HOLDS
TO MODERNISM
Pope's Action in Regulating
Z New Thought Condemned
in Summit Address.
Especial to the evening star.I

SUMMIT, April 13.-The action of
Pope Plus X. in condemning modern
istic ideas regarding the divinity of
Jesus Christ was attacked by Rev.
William Sullivan, of All Souls
Church, New York, in an address in
All Souls Church, here. last night.
He prophesied the eventual disinte-
grafton of the Catholic church.
The clergyman had for his theme
s'The Roman Catholic Church and
Modernism" He declared that with
the ascendancy of the present pontiff
the writings of the worlds greatest
students of scripture and dogmas,
such as Losy, Minocchi, Rose,
Schnitzer, Koch and Tyrrell, were
suppressed. These authors, all of the
Catholic creed, Mr.. Sullivan asserted,
had devoted years to the study of the
problem of the reconciliation of the
ancient and modern or democratic
enets of the Catholic church upon the
solution of this problem depending the
life or death of Catholicity. Since
Since the rejection and elimination of
their scriptural works, Mr.. Sullivan
said the authors named left the
Catholic church. He asserted that as
result of the action of these writ
ers many persons reared in Catho-
lcity are abandoning the church.
In every church or creed, III the
opinion of the preacher, the problem
today, the solution of which is in
sistent and even clamorous, is the
problem of modern scholarship, schol-
arship relative to the biblical inter-
probation and Christian teachings.
During the past seventy years there
has been born an entirely new science
and that science said Mr.. Sullivan is
the greater and more intelligent study
of the Bible and the dogmatlc ques-
tions in all religious persausions.
Many followers of various creeds
attempt to shut their eyes to this
growing condition, said the clergy
man, but when ne takes the great
bulk of scriptures, unless he be too
cowardly to think, he will constantly
be confronted with religious teach
ings, contradictions and problems
difficult of satisfying solution. 1t is
the. acceptance of the modern and
Democratic teachings in religion
which bear the unmistakable raiment
of truth that lie the reconciliation of
the ancient and modern creeds, the
preacher believed.
Mr.. Sullivan charged that in 1907
the present head of the Catholic
Church caused to be issued a docu-
ment which will be remembered In
papal history for all time. Acknowl-
edging the growing danger of the
spirit of liberalism within the Catho-
lie clergy, MIR. Sullivan asserted the
Pope had caused an order to be is
sued to the bishop in every diocese
In the world to appoint from each
diocese a committee of Vigilants
composed of priests who would eXer-
else a watch over the liberal doc
frines disseminated by the priests,
and such committees are required to
report under oath every three years
through the bishops to the pontiff.
This system bordering on espionage
american believers in Catholicity
.-Nculd not tolerate and hence the
GRADUAL decline of the creed in MIR.
Sul'ivaffts, view.
Having grown out of one creed
Catholics will accept no other, said
Mr.. Sullivan, but he would have his
church ready to extend a place OF
generous hospitality to those who
would worship God.
During his discourse MIR. Sullivan
did not point out just what consti-
tuted the modern or liberal teachings
which he asserted had been rejected
Insofar as they differ with the an
cient or traditional tenets of Catholi-
nism