+Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton+ |
Integralism, on the other
hand, is essentially the teaching or the attitude of those who worked for the
presentation of an integral Catholicism, of Catholic dogma set forth accurately
and in its entirety. Most frequently the
name of integralism was applied to the doctrine and the viewpoint of those
Catholic writers who entered into controversy against the modernists during the
first decade of the present century. Understood in this fashion, integralism
was nothing else than the contradiction of heretical modernism, It was thus
basically only the exposition of Catholic truth.
We must not forget that fact that modernism, as such, is a definite heresy or collection of heretical teachings,
while integralism, as such is nothing of the sort. The true Catholic teaching
is not to be found at any half-way point between the teachings of such as
Tyrrell and Loisy and the doctrines of the Catholic authors who opposed them.
In opposing the dicta condemned in Lamentabili,
the Pascendi, and the Sacrorum
antistitum, the great Catholic authors of a generation ago were perfectly
justified. If, as is usual in our own
country, the name of integralism is applied to this specifically
anti-modernistic teaching then integralism is nothing more than a statement of
Catholic truth, implied in a denial of errors which are incompatible with the
divine message of the Catholic Church.”
- Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton, “Two currents in
Contemporary Catholic Thought” (1948)
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