Mirari Vos: On Liberalism & Religious Indifferentism.
In the early 1800s, the Church in France, infected by the Revolution of 1789, turned to its charismatic philosopher and apologist, Abbe Fr. Felicite-Robert de Lamennais, promoter of a movement to "catholicize liberalism." He expounded an alien philosophy based on a new theory of certitude claiming truth does not belong to individual reason, but to the universal consent of mankind. According to him, certainty of truth was not determined by evidence, but by the authority of mankind. The True Religion, he concluded, is that which can put forth on its behalf the greatest number of witnesses. He originally espoused ultramontanism and aimed to create an organized body of opinion to campaign against Gallicanism, (the control and influence of the state in church matters)as the movement with Dom Gaurange , founder of Solesmes.
Les Progrès de la revolution et de la guerre contre l'église (1828) marked his complete renunciation of Royalist …More