The Modernist Gospel of Lived Experience: Rome Rediscovers the Heresy Condemned by St. Pius X

At Leo XIV’s Vatican, theology is now said to emerge from people’s experiences. St. Pius X exposed this inversion of Catholic faith 119 years ago.

Sometimes the Modernists make their intentions so obvious that one wonders why they bother dressing them up in theological jargon.

During the October 14 Vatican press conference marking the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, Fr. Stanislaus Chu Ilo, a Nigerian theologian at DePaul University, offered this remarkable explanation of the theological revolution currently underway:

“There is a paradigm shift or a methodological shift that we see now of theology listening, and emerging from the experiences of people.”

There it is.

Theology emerging from the experiences of people. A paradigm shift. A methodological shift. And the Vatican presents this spectacle to the Catholic world as though it represents some wonderful development in the Church’s understanding of divine Revelation.

St. Pius X must be turning over in his grave.

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