You're listening to the SSPX podcast and welcome to episode 14 of the crisis in the church series.

We're joined by Father John McFarland, the prior of Our Lady of Sorrows in Phoenix, Arizona, for this final episode in our study of modernism.

Today we'll look at modernism through the lens of the recent encyclical by Pope Francis Fratelli Tudy,

and how this encyclical promotes the French revolutionary

ideas of liberty, equality, and fraternity.

We'll see how these three ideas, though they sound very nice, are not based in Catholic

doctrine, and in fact were condemned by Pope St. Pius X just over 100 years ago, when French

Catholics formed the Sion, a very popular Catholic social movement.

This movement was flawed and condemned because it tried to marry the principles of the

revolution to the kingship of Christ.

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Now here's Father McFarland.

Welcome back to the SSPX podcast and our next episode on the crisis in the church series,

welcoming Father John McFarland. Hello, Father, how are you?

Hey well, Andrew. How are you? Oh, Doing fairly well today, and we are wrapping up our last episode on modernism.

And today we're talking about the Sion, the apostolic mandate, our apostolic mandate,

and Fratellitian. These are three distinct things that we're discussing today under the broader topic of social

modernism.

So when we talk about social modernism, how is that distinct from modernism itself that

we've been talking about for the last four episodes?

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