Pascendi Dominici Gregis

…X in the papal encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis and in the decree Lamentabili Sane Exitu prepared by the Curia’s Holy Office and confirmed by Pius X. In order to ensure enforcement, the priest-scholar Umberto Benigni organized, through personal contacts with theologians, a nonofficial group of censors who would report to…

Pope Pius X’s encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), which condemned Modernism as heresy, was aimed chiefly at Loisy and was the last of a series of papal censures dating from 1893. Although Loisy had reluctantly submitted to the first censure, Leo XIII’s encyclical Providentissimus Deus (on biblical scholarship), he…

…X issued his crucial encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (“Feeding the Lord’s Flock”), in which he condemned Modernism and declared its teachings to be the very essence of heresy. Rather than submit to papal authority, Tyrrell published a letter denouncing the encyclical and was subsequently excommunicated. He settled at Storrington, despondent…