Catholic Modernism reconciled Church doctrine with modern science.

Evidence

Modernism was an intellectual movement which developed among catholics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its proclaimed aims were to bring the Church into harmony with the culture and society of the contemporary world—especially with new developments in scientific and sociological thinking. It was condemned by the Papal decree Lamentabili and the Encyclical Pascendi in 1907. However, via the work notably of Romolo Murri, it was an important ideological ancestor of contemporary Christian Democracy. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1884

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Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines Catholic Modernism as a movement seeking Church harmony with modern culture, condemned in 1907.