The Catholic Church condemned Modernism in 1907 for engaging modern science and sociology

Evidence

It is also significant that the Pope, in denouncing Islam for lacking reason, failed to bring up the Catholic Church’s hostile opposition to the scientific revolution and to the birth of nonreligious and rational ways of understanding the world. The scientific revolution and, more broadly, the Enlightenment stood in opposition to Christian dogma and were viewed as a threat by the Church. Scientists who employed reason and rationality to explain the physical world were severely punished. Giordano Bruno, who championed the Copernican system of astronomy, was imprisoned for eight years by the Roman and Venetian Inquisitions for refusing to recant his beliefs. He was later burned at the stake. Galileo was similarly brought before the Inquisition and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 189 (#expands, via linked claim)

The Old Testament, the mystery religions, Greek philosophy, and Roman methods of administration were all blended in the Catholic Church, and combined to give it a strength which no earlier social organization had equalled. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1817 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Catholic Church suppressed rational science for centuries. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 189; The Catholic Church blended diverse historical, religious, and administrative traditions for strength — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1817; Catholic Modernism, condemned in 1907, seeded later Christian Democracy

Related

• The Catholic Church suppressed rational science for centuries. (similarity 0.91)
• The Church actively persecuted science while the Pope denounced Islam as reasonless. (similarity 0.86)
• The Catholic Church violently suppressed scientists and Enlightenment reason it now claims to champion (similarity 0.85)
• Catholic Modernism reconciled Church doctrine with modern science. (similarity 0.81)
• Pope Benedict’s attack on Islamic irrationality ignored Christianity’s own persecution of reason (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Catholic Church suppressed rational science for centuries. #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 189
• The Catholic Church blended diverse historical, religious, and administrative traditions for strength #qualifies (0.72) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1817