Conciliar Distortions of St. Albert’s Legacy: Naturalism Masked as Piety
The National Catholic Register portal (November 15, 2025) attempts to rehabilitate the conciliar sect’s false “faith-science dialogue” by co-opting St. Albert the Great. While praising his scientific pursuits, the article omits crucial distinctions between authentic Catholic epistemology and the neo-modernist synthesis infecting the post-conciliar structures. The portal claims:
Albert showed that the principles articulated in Aristotle’s natural philosophy could be harmoniously placed within the cosmos described by Scripture
This deceptive framing ignores the sine qua non condition of Albert’s work: philosophy as ancilla theologiae (handmaiden to theology). The Angelic Doctor himself warns in Summa Contra Gentiles (I.7) that human reason must submit to divine revelation, not seek “harmony” as equal partners.
Subversion of Scholastic Methodology
The article’s emphasis on “experiments” and “natural causes” dangerously echoes the condemned proposition of Pius X’s Lamentabili (1907): “The interpretation of Holy Scripture… is subject to more exact judgments and corrections by exegetes” (Prop. 2). St. Albert’s empirical observations served ad maiorem Dei gloriam, not as autonomous scientific inquiry.
Modernist sleight-of-hand appears in the claim that Albert’s work provides foundations for discussing “evolution” and “age of the earth.” This directly contradicts Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950), which forbids treating evolution as “certain fact” and reaffirms the literal creation of Adam. The portal’s silence on these boundaries constitutes tacit approval of heresy.
Falsified Historical Context
Nowhere does the article mention that Aristotle’s works were condemned by ecclesiastical authority in 1210, 1215, and 1231 Paris Synods due to Averroist distortions. St. Albert’s genius lay precisely in purifying Aristotelian thought through Thomistic metaphysics, not in uncritical adoption.
The conciliar sect’s obsession with “dialogue” perverts this truth, as evidenced by the blasphemous assertion:
The Church and science are not at war with one another
This ignores Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemns the notion that “human reason… is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Prop. 3). True science bows before the regnum Christi (kingdom of Christ), as Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925): “Rulers of states… must fulfill their duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.”
Omission of Supernatural Finality
Most grievously, the portal reduces St. Albert’s intellectual labors to naturalistic ends. His De Adhaerendo Deo explicitly subordinates all knowledge to union with God: “A pure heart penetrating the heavens is better than an astronomer gazing at stars.” This mystical dimension is conspicuously absent, exposing the article’s anthropocentric bias.
The conciliar sect’s inversion reaches its apex in citing “Pope Leo XIII” and “Pope Sixtus V” praises of Scholasticism while gutting its substance. Leo XIII’s Aeterni Patris (1879) established Thomism as the anti-Modernist bastion, yet the neo-church promotes Teilhardian evolutionism – the very heresy Albert and Thomas would have demolished.
Conclusion: Science as New Gnosis
By divorcing St. Albert’s methodology from its telos (ultimate end) – the Beatific Vision – the article embodies the Modernist error condemned in Pascendi (1907): “Religious sentiment is the soul of religion.” When “dialogue” replaces docere veritatem (teaching truth), science becomes idolatry.
True Catholics reject this conciliar alchemy that transmutes gold into dross. As St. Albert himself warned: “The theologian deceived by astronomy becomes an astrologer, the one deceived by animals becomes a veterinarian.” Let us instead heed Pius X’s admonition in Sacrorum Antistitum: “The Modernists’ entire system… comes to this: that in the Catholic religion, doctrine and history are subject to evolution.”
Source:
St. Albert the Great: The Church and science are in harmony (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.11.2025