Describes Francis: “'The liberal neoCatholic party is child of the Revolution, & the Revolution is satanic in its essence.'..Cardinal Pie was the champion of orthodoxy against the error of liberalism (the State is free from Church laws) & naturalism (human life is free from divine laws)"
... Pope Pius IX appointed Pie to the episcopate on September 28, 1849. In France, he contributed much to the restoration of religious life which had been eradicated for 40 years by the French Revolution. He created many parishes, established in his seminary a canonical faculty of theology, founded for the missions of the diocese the Oblates of Saint Hilary, and brought the Jesuits to Poitiers and the Benedictines to Solesmes and Ligugé.
His Battles Very early in his priestly career, Father Pie took to anti-liberal principles. No sooner was he out of the St. Sulpice seminary than, as vicar general of Chartres at age 29, he expressed his leitmotiv in no uncertain terms: “The liberal neoCatholic party is child of the Revolution, and the Revolution is satanic in its essence.”
His life and his mind would be in perfect harmony with this fundamental thesis. Cardinal Pie was the champion of orthodoxy against the error of liberalism (the State is free from Church laws) and naturalism (human life is free from divine laws). He became the flag-bearer in the battle against the Revolution. He wrote two Synod instructions “against the errors of the present days and of philosophy.” This explains why Pius IX requested some of his writings which would become the basis for his most famous publications, the Encyclical Quanta Cura and the Syllabus of 80 Modern Errors. Here are some thoughts of Cardinal Pie on this twin scourge:
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