1. Theology is the science of the study of God. It had always been the "Queen of Sciences" until the Copernican Revolution juxtaposed theology against natural science by introducing a new cosmological model that opposed divine revelation. This cleavage has never been repaired, and the pro-Modernist partisans in the church are constantly seeking to exploit this cleavage against dogma, morality and Tradition.
The Evolutionism condemned in Pascendi gregis by St. Pius X destroys all religion because it denies that God can be the direct object of scientific study. It relegates God to a knowledge attainable only by internal experiences, and these driven by necessity (vital immanentism). Therefore, as St. Pius X teaches in Pascendi, the Modernist keeps the two spheres of theology and natural sciences separated in order to exploit a new metaphysic (the philosophy of Becoming in the place of the Scholastic philosophy of Being).
2. Modernism is the confluence, compendium, and rendezvous of all the heresies because it accomplishes what each of them on their own never could: the dissolution of the God revealed by Jesus Christ from the human mind. Modernism posits science as the judge of the sources of revelation, and as such, purges them of all supernatural content. Modernism assumes that profane science with all its changing and wrongly deduced theories and hypotheses is the canon or standard to use in measuring the truths revealed by God to man.
What then?
True science is judged by revelation, not the other way around. True science in St. Thomas Aquinas begins with God and ends with God. The essences and accidents of nature and nature's laws are subject to their Creator. This is not the case today, and if you imagine St. Thomas would be a scientist today like the great names of astronomy, biology, paleontology, cosmology, physics, etc.. then you would be wrong. St. Thomas would never imagine to separate natural sciences from theological science which is the judge and distiller of all natural truths and facts. The Catholic Church in our time has drifted far, far into the Modernist outlook that places science above theology (see: John Paul II's remarks to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 1992). This is a form of idolatry. We will never arrive at a true understanding of nature, science, metaphysics and sound philosophy by separating the Queen of sciences from her subjects or worse yet, subjecting revealed Truths to mere profane scientific theories.
Destroyer of Heresies
"Meanwhile, Venerable Brethren, fully confident in your zeal and work, we beseech for you with our whole heart and soul the abundance of heavenly light, so that in the midst of this great perturbation of men's minds from the insidious invasions of error from every side, you may see clearly what you ought to do and may perform the task with all your strength and courage. May Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, be with you by His power; and may the Immaculate Virgin, the destroyer of all heresies, be with you by her prayers and aid."
Pope St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis
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