"When did the liturgy really start unraveling? After they had canceled the oath against modernism."

Bishop Joseph Strickland points at a date most Catholics have never been given — and it isn't 1962.

The Oath Against Modernism was imposed by Pope St. Pius X in 1910 and required of every priest, pastor, and seminary professor. It was abolished in 1967. As Bishop Strickland notes, the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council had all taken that Oath, and it remained in force the entire time the Council was in session. The collapse he is describing came after it was set aside — not from the Council itself.

"The liturgy that resulted, not really from Vatican II, but from embracing modernism after 1967 — I think that's a key thought to keep in mind."

He also gives a practical recommendation worth taking. Pius X's encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis — where modernism is called "the synthesis of all heresies" — is dense and hard going. The Oath Against Modernism itself is short and far more digestible: five basic points and a summation. Read it and judge for yourself whether it describes what you are seeing.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING

• Pope St. Pius X, Sacrorum Antistitum (1 September 1910) — the Oath Against Modernism
• Pope St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (8 September 1907) — modernism as "the synthesis of all heresies"
• Second Vatican Council — in session 1962–1965, with the Oath in force throughout
• Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 17 July 1967 — new Profession of Faith replaces the Oath
• Paul VI, Missale Romanum (1969) — promulgation of the new Order of Mass

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