Sodalitium Pianum

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The Sodalitium Pianum , German "pianic sodality ", French also known as La Sapinière ("fir forest", because of the onomatopoeic similarity), was an anti-modernist priestly association that existed from 1909 to 1921.

The founder and leader of the group was the Roman priest Msgr. Umberto Benigni , a church historian and senior staff member of the Curia. The network had around 50 members in Italy and France; in Germany there were only two chaplains. Named after Pope Pius V , the sodality set itself the task of observing theologians and priests who were suspected of modernism and, if necessary, reporting them to the authorities of the Roman Curia.

Pope Pius X approved this practice, although he always tried to respect the rights of the bishops. Cardinal Secretary of State Rafael Merry del Val was far more skeptical of the activities than long suspected. The anti-modernist measures, a symptom of the defensive attitude of the Catholic Church before the outbreak of the First World War , was initiated by Pope Benedict XV from 1914 . prevented. The association was also formally dissolved in 1921.

literature

  • Roland Götz: "Charlotte in the Tannenwald". Monsignor Umberto Benigni (1862–1934) and the anti-modernist “Sodalitium Pianum”. In: Manfred Weitlauff , Peter Neuner (Ed.): For you Bishop - with you Christ. Festschrift for Friedrich Cardinal Wetter on his seventieth birthday. EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1998, ISBN 3-88096-292-8 , pp. 389-438.
  • Otto Weiß : Modernism and Anti-Modernism in the Dominican Order. At the same time a contribution to the “Sodalitium Pianum” (= sources and studies on the recent history of theology. Vol. 2). With a foreword by Timothy Radcliffe and a foreword by Ulrich Horst . Pustet, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-7917-1619-0 .
  • Giacomo Martina: La Chiesa nell'età dell'assolutismo, del liberalismo, del totalitarismo. Since Lutero ai nostri giorni. Morcelliana, Brescia 1970.
  • Émile Poulat : Intégrisme et catholicisme intégral. Un réseau secret international anti-modernist: La “Sapinière” (1909–1921). Casterman, Tournai 1969.
  • Émile Poulat: Histoire, dogme et critique dans la crise moderniste. Casterman, Tournai 1962 (Paris, dissertation).

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Émile Poulat: intégrisme et catholicisme intégral. Un réseau secret international anti-modernist: La “Sapinière” (1909–1921). Casterman, Tournai 1969.