Wonderful preface X, unfortunately the rest of it says this:
The study of Holy Scripture is proposed in that remarkable encyclical, “Providentissimus Deus,” as the chief remedy against the evil doctrinal tendencies of our time. This study cannot be pursued without a competent knowledge of the questions which an Introduction to Holy Scripture treats. The very key to the present situation is a right idea of the Inspiration of Holy Scripture. Hence in this Second Edition of my work, I have devoted about one third of the volume to this great theme. I have endeavored in all things to be conservative. I have endeavored to present a fair examination of the different theories, and in judging of them, the authority of the Church has been the norm. My treatise on the Canon of the Old Testament may be judged excessively long, but I have contemplated this as a work of reference, in which completeness of treatment is required. My hope is that I may have, in some small degree, helped the Cause of Christ.
As I showed in an earlier post, it was Providentissimus Deus that really opened up the Scriptures to the dictates of science when it said:
‘15: But [the interpreter] must not on that account consider that it is forbidden, when just cause exists, to push enquiry and exposition beyond what the Fathers have done; provided he carefully observes the rule so wisely laid down by St Augustine – not to depart from the literal and obvious sense, except only where reason makes it untenable or necessity requires, a rule to which it is more necessary to adhere strictly in these times, when the thirst for novelty and unrestrained freedom of thought make the danger of error most real and proximate.’ Neither should those passages be neglected which the Fathers have understood in an allegorical or figurative sense.’--- Providentissimus Deus.
And this passage, I have demonstrated became the ROCK upon which atheistic philosophy determined a MODERNIST interpretation of scripture.
In 1632, Galileo’s long awaited book Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems was published. Upon reading it, the Pope saw it depicted the heliocentric system as more than a mathematical ‘hypothesis;’ more than a physical theory, indeed as the logical and preferential order of the universe. The Pope immediately ordered all copies of the book found to be seized; heterodoxy he said, that ‘puts the Catholic faith in danger.’ The Pontiff knew of course that if the Church’s authority, hermeneutics and exegesis were ignored or tampered with in this particular case, then what other biblical revelation was safe thereafter. Moreover, Urban VIII, with Bruno’s trial in mind, feared another outbreak of Pythagorean ideas, heresies - [other worlds and aliens] and blasphemies associated with the pagan heliocentrism if it was allowed to be presented as a certain truth.
The heliocentric heresy, Pope Urban VIII said, if adopted would 'put the Catholic faith in danger.'
The above paragraph of Providentissimus Deus was quoted EVERYWHERE as confirming that Galileo was correct and all the Fathers wrong. And as history shows, heliocentrism gave birth to the first evolution theory, the evolution of their solar system, then Long ages, then Darwin, then the Big Bang, so they too must be allowed.
Now recall God called Satan the Father of Lies. Catholic teaching tells us man cannot comprehend the ability of Satan to inflict his lies on mankind, 'even on the elect, as the Bible says. Only in the last 20 years has the hidden history of Satan's victory over the literal reading of Genesis come out in here and there in dribs and drabs. Now this history, that I managed for over 30 years to put together, has shocked me, but it cannot be denied anymore, the Cat is out of the bag, all the evidence in the public forum.
It all began in 1741 when the first pope was told by his top man in the Holy Office that heliocentrism was proven and all philosophers 'of importance' had no doubt any more. Here was the first test of FAITH, and the pope failed it giving concessions to books describing heliocentrism. Then in 1820-35 two more popes were assured heliocentrism was proven and in spite of my hero Fr Fillipo Anfossi (1748-1825) telling them it had not been proven and that the 1616 decree was infallible, the popes allowed or rather allowed by inference that the literal geocentrism of Scripture really meant the opposite, heliocentrism. Then every other literal revelation of Genesis was reinterpreted to comply with evolution and not one evolutionary reinterpretation was condemned as formal heresy because popes feared they could be 'wrong' once more.
Modernism began when popes ignored the dogma of a geocentric Genesis. Never before did a pope reverse the official teaching of a previous pope. The excuses conjured up to avoid this charge fill books. This placed popes like Pius IX, Leo XIII in an impossible position trying to stop modernism. Why even Fr Breen, with his brilliant preface did not know the licence Providentissimus Deus gave the Galileo U-turn and atheistic phiolosophy in 'reducing Christianity to a movement away from the spiritual world'.
And there is Fr Paul Robinson, SSPX, backed up by their websites continuing the Devil's work.
Thank God for CIF who are not afraid of the truth and do not shoot the messengers as they do on other 'Catholic' forums.