Rome Has Spoken
Rome Has Spoken: When the Pope Declared War on Secret Societies | Humanum Genus – Avoiding Babylon
For 146 years, pope after pope had warned Catholics about a secretsociety. And by 1884, almost nobody was listening. The lodges were full. The lodges were respectable. They countedkings, prime ministers, and generals among their members. The ideathat a charitable gentlemen’s fraternity was actually a spiritual waragainst the Catholic Church sounded like paranoia. So Pope […]
Rome Has Spoken: Gregory XVI’s Prophetic Warning Against Liberalism | Mirari Vos – Avoiding Babylon
The errors the modern world calls “progress,” Pope Gregory XVI called what they were: poison. He said so in writing, in 1832. Almost nobody talks about it. In 1832, Pope Gregory XVI issued Mirari Vos — “On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism” — the first social encyclical in Church history. Written in the violent aftermath of […]
Rome Has Spoken: The Once Liberal Pope Who Tried to Warn Us | Quanta Cura & Syllabus of Errors – Avoiding Babylon
In 1846, the Catholic Church elected the man the world called “the liberal pope.” Eighteen years later, that same man would issue the most uncompromising condemnation of the modern world ever written by a pope. How does that happen? In December of 1864 — on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception — Pope Pius IX […]
Rome Has Spoken: The Encyclical That Brought Aquinas Back | Aeterni Patris – Avoiding Babylon
By 1878, every university in Europe had declared the Catholic faith philosophically obsolete. Kant said you can’t reason your way to God.Hegel said truth evolves with history.Comte said theology was a primitive stage of human thought.Materialism said there was no soul at all. And inside the Catholic seminary, the great Scholastic tradition — the tradition […]