35. The Papacy and Liberalism

Events are showing ever more clearly that this view of our way of life is working its way up into reality. It represents true progress compared to the old ecclesiastical order. It is what will establish a new era; papal circulars will be powerless against it. It is a historical necessity, just as Christianity once was. Pseudo-liberalism is not, and therefore the apparent truth of the sentences of the encyclical. It is fighting against a stillborn child.