Link to the actual Oath.
OATH AGAINST MODERNISM. A solemn declaration against Modernism issued
by Pope St. Pius X (September 10, 1910) and required to be taken on oath by
all clergy to be advanced to major orders, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious
superiors, and by professors of philosophy and theology in seminaries. The first
part of the oath is a strong affirmation of the principal Catholic truths opposed
to Modernism: the demonstrability of God’s existence by human reason, the value
of miracles and prophecies as criteria of revelation, the historical institution
of the Church founded by Christ, the invariable constancy of the essentials
of Catholic tradition, and the reasonableness and supernaturality of the Christian
faith. The second part of the oath is an expression of interior assent to the
decree Lamentabili and the encyclical Pascendi. Particular modernist errors are singled
out for censure and rejection. In 1967 the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith issued a new Profession of the Faith to replace the longer Oath
against Modernism.
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