Everybody’s a Modernist Nowadays

Alfred Loisy

Giuseppe Sarto’s battle against modernism, begun while he was Bishop of Mantua, continued in his tenure as Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, and brought to its highest pitch in his occupancy of the papal throne as Pius X, was a battle for the very soul of the Church, concerning as it did the immutability and constancy of divinely revealed truth, without which Christianity, and more