Early in his 1907 encyclical condemning Modernism, Pascendi, Saint Pius X “noted that every Modernist sustains and

comprises within himself many personalities,” and each different personality has a different standard of “truth.”

For example, when he preaches, the Modernist priest might speak devoutly of the Virgin Birth of Christ, but when he

teaches theology or history, he can dismiss it as a pious myth. The Modernist sees no problem with this contradiction. The

Modernist regards his multiple-personalities not as a disorder but as a great achievement of superior wisdom inspiring and

enabling him to reform the Catholic Church.

What Saint Pius X says of the Modernist also applies to the “god” of Modernism, for the Modernists insist that all

“revelation” and “faith” arise in each person’s subconscious “religious sentiment.” Through that “religious sense” every-

one feels the need or impulse of the Unknowable Divine, and then experiences that as “God” within himself. All religions

– Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Santeria-Vodoo, Animism, etc. etc. -- all flow from

those individual and deeply personal experiences of “the Divine,” and all are true and real experiences of the same Un-

knowable Divine “god” which, being too large to reveal Itself in just one true faith and one true religion, reveals Itself in

all the many different religions of the world. Thus the “god” of Modernism, like the Modernist himself, is many-faced and

“comprises within Itself many different, even contradictory, personalities.” This is the basis for the Modernist program of

ecumenism, a process of dialogue through which all the religions share their unique experience of “the Divine” and each

religion learns from the “truth” of all the others. The immediate goal is to convince the followers of the various religions

to learn and respect the “truth and goodness” of all other religions. The ultimate goal is to eliminate divisive dogmas and

make everyone share the same religious experience. With the same world “faith” they will thus coalesce into a single

World Religion.