BOD is not an americanist thing. It is as old as 5th century.
Agreed. The modern heresy is that of implicit faith. No one taught that prior to Saint Pope Pius IX, who, let's face it, allowed the heresy to spread. He should have condemned it, but he did not. The Syllabus of Errors was a good attempt, but it was still weak. He should have defined it, once and for all.
Dont give CM any ideas, elsewise, Pius IX will enter the ever expanding list of anti-popes.....
I think that he was a good Pope. I am not a historian, but I do know that there was a lot going on in Italy at the time, and Pius IX ended-up on his knees (literally). I think that he wanted compromise and unity, so he made some concessions to the liberal theologians of his day and thought that he could erect a "theological wall" around their modernist ideas. However, what the modernists of our day quote is not from the Syllabus but from Quanto Conficiamur. His concession was, IMHO, the "hole in the dike" that allowed the waters of modernism (driven by atheistic materialism -- please reply to my other OP!!!) to flow into Catholicism.