Do You Think Pope St. Pius X Had Nancy Pelosi In Mind When He Wrote His Encyclical on Modernism?

Well, probably not specificly her, but her mindset. What do I mean?

1st read this quote from an interview Nancy Pelosi gave to Newsweek's Eleanor Clift:

"I am a practicing Catholic, although they're probably not too happy about that. But it is my faith. I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with, a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. And that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will."

"I said to [one of the cardinals] that I believe that what we are doing honors the principles we talked about.... They said, 'We believe that it does not. That's what the meeting was about — to make our case. Clearly, the people at that table were not willing to accept what we know to be a fact."(Source: Pelosi: My Pro-Abortion Stance is Consistent with Catholic Faith)

Compare that to this quote from Pope St. Pius X's encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (emphais mine):

"With all this in mind, one understands how it is that the Modernists express astonishment when they are reprimanded or punished. What is imputed to them as a fault they regard as a sacred duty. Being in intimate contact with consciences they know better than anybody else, and certainly better than the ecclesiastical authority, what needs exist - nay, they embody them, so to speak, in themselves. Having a voice and a pen they use both publicly, for this is their duty. Let authority rebuke them as much as it pleases - they have their own conscience on their side and an intimate experience which tells them with certainty that what they deserve is not blame but praise. Then they reflect that, after all there is no progress without a battle and no battle without its victim, and victims they are willing to be like the prophets and Christ Himself. They have no bitterness in their hearts against the authority which uses them roughly, for after all it is only doing its duty as authority. Their sole grief is that it remains deaf to their warnings, because delay multiplies the obstacles which impede the progress of souls, but the hour will most surely come when there will be no further chance for conversation, for if the laws of evolution may be checked for a while, they cannot be ultimately destroyed. And so they go their way, reprimands and condemnations notwithstanding, masking an incredible audacity under a mock semblance of humility. While they make a show of bowing their heads, their hands and minds are more intent than ever on carrying out their purposes. And this policy they follow willingly and wittingly, both because it is part of their system that authority is to be stimulated but not dethroned, and because it is necessary for them to remain within the ranks of the Church in order that they may gradually transform the collective conscience - thus unconsciously avowing that the common conscience is not with them, and that they have no right to claim to be its interpreters."

Almost sounds like Pope St. Pius X was given a vision of this interview over 92 years before it occured doesn't it? While I think it is safe to say that God didn't specificly reveal her future actions to Pope S. Pius, I am also safe in saying that her actions are a directly linked to the very heresies he was warning about in that encyclical. The whole modernist movement lay much of the groundwork for what is the New Age Movement. Although you don't hear much about that term these days, the "culture of death" is a huge part of that movement.

I came across this specific quote the other day in reading a book on the New Age Movement that I had not had the chance to read before now despite many years of dealing with what is wrong with that movement. (I will talk about the book, the New Age Movement as well as how I 1st discovered Pascendi when I 1st began researching that movement in another post.) When I read it I immediately thought of seveveal of Nancy Pelosi's comments over the past year. I also thought of other Democrats like Patrick Kennedy & Joe Biden & their comments claiming to be good Catholics as well. I was going to write this post using some of those past comments when I came across the article put up on LifeSiteNews yesterday that provided me with some fresh comments by Nancy Pelosi that showed her mindset hasn't changed. & if anything is even more hardened in a mindset that is clearly rebelious against the Catholic Church's teachings that she must accept.

She claims that the Church's teachings allow her this flexibility because her conscience says her views are OK (ditto the other Catholic in Name Only pro-aborts). They quote Church teaching that talks about acting on their conscience. (Par 1782) What they ignore is the fact that there is 1 thing in that teaching that totally undermines their stand, the Church calls for a properly formed conscience (Par 1783-1802).

As I said, I am working on a post about the "culture of death" & the New Age Movement. It will be an overview but it is definitely very much a huge part of what we see happenning in DC & elsewhere with abortion, health care, the climate change/environmental movement & many other things as well.