Tyler Bishop Joseph Strickland advocates the need for society to reject modernism and get back on the right track.

“Thank you St Pius X,” Strickland said in a recent tweet. “We need to reinstate the Oath Against Modernism… St Pius, pray for us.” 

His tweet came in response to one posted by a Twitter user, Father V, who had tweeted out the Oath Against Modernism, credited to St. Piux X in 1910.

"I entirely reject the heretical misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the one which the Church held previously,” the oath says.

Pope St. Pius X was the 258th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was known for his opposition to modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine. He emphasized traditional devotional practices and orthodox theology. One of his significant contributions came when he published the first Code of Canon Law, according to an article by the St. Pius X Catholic Student Center. “Pius X defended the Catholic faith against popular 19th century views such as indifferentism and relativism which his predecessors had warned against as well,” the article says. 

He promoted Thomas Aquinas and the philosophy called Thomism, associated with Aquinas’ thinking, as Catholic institutions’ principal philosophical teaching method. Pius X opposed the modernist theological school of thought, which claimed that Catholic dogma should be modernized and blended with 19th-century philosophies. He viewed modernism as a threat to the Roman Catholic belief in theology, philosophy and dogma, the St. Pius X Catholic Student Center added in its article.

Pius X demonstrated compassion, benevolence, poverty, stubbornness, and stiffness. He was a pastoral pope and the only pontiff in the 20th century who delivered Sunday sermons weekly. 

Pius X often advocated for the poor, frequently referencing his humble origins, according to the St. Pius X Catholic Student Center. Many considered him a holy person, leading to an early process of beatification due to petitions for his canonization.