''Lamentabili sane exitu'' ("with truly lamentable results") is a 1907

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, prepared by the

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and confirmed by Pope

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, which condemns errors in the exegesis of

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and in the history and interpretation of dogma.''The Scripture documents: an anthology of official Catholic teachings'' by Dean Philip Béchard 2002 page 183 The syllabus itself does not use the term 'modernist', but was regarded as part of the Pope's campaign against

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within the Church. The document (items 46 and 47) specifically affirmed that the

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was instituted by

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himself, as in the

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. Published in July 1907, ''Lamentabili'' was soon to be complemented by the more comprehensive encyclical '' Pascendi Dominici gregis'', which came out in September 1907 and had been prepared in a small circle around the Pope, whereas the 1910 antimodernist oath Sacrorum Antistitum was again compiled by the

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. Most of the condemned statements in ''Lamentabili'' were taken from the writings of

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and his school. Other Modernists like

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were targeted only indirectly.

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Text of ''Lamentabili sane exitu''

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