Pascendi Dominici Gregis

I wanted to read this encyclical to further understand the problems we face in the Church today and to go right back to the original, to the Holy Father's words themselves, regarding the heresy of Modernism. For the first time in my (adult) life I was humbled by an English text and had to go back and grab the German translation in order to really understand what was said here. It was a difficult task for Pius X to summarise the errors of the Modernists, and he gives the reason for this in the encyclical:

But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

His Holiness managed this difficult job well, because he systematically explains the errors of the Modernists. Reading them, I couldn't help but think of Pope Franis though. Although it was a difficult task which Pius X mastered, I have to say that I believe one's time is better spent reading the Catholic Encyclopedia article on Modernism than reading this encyclical.