5 OCTOBER 1907, Page 19

Father George Tyrrell contributes two striking papers on "The Pope

and Modernism " to the Times of Monday and Tuesday. Passing over the first, which deals with the controversial part of the Encyclical,. we must content our- selves with briefly summarising the more important passages in the second. If the repressive measures of the Encyclical are carried out, Father Tyrrell predicts that modernism will be driven .underground, there to grow and strengthen and organise itself for a more dangerous explosion. In seeking to enlist the sympathies of other religious bodies against modernism, , the Encyclical " identifies Catholicism far too closely with scholasticism, and makes it too plain that it recognises no logical alternative between extreme Ultra- montanism and rank atheism,"—thus repelling Protestantism.