Modernism

Modernism is not just one heresy, but a family of heresies. It can take many different forms. What unites them all is the conviction that the Church is "behind the times" and that it is up to the avant-garde, the more advanced and progressive members of the Church, to modernize the teaching of the Church.

Modernists dogmatize culture and relativize revelation. For the modernists, reason and self-determination are exalted while obedience to God's authority is cast down. The Church's traditional teaching appears as the enemy of the gospel of lust; the world says, "If it feels good, it is good; do what you think is right for you," but the Church says, "Do what is right in God's eyes; use your bodily nature to serve God and neighbor."

The Litany of the Catholic Buts

It is characteristic of the modernists to say, "I am Catholic but I disagree with the teaching of the Church." That's why I call them "Catholic Buts." Another name for them is "Protestants." Unlike classical Protestants, this group of Protestants want to stay in the Catholic Church. The most likely explanation for their becoming traitors-in-place is that they have come to understand from the history of the Protestant schisms that leaving the Church never changes the Church.

I am Catholic, but I disagree with what the Church teaches about:

• Sunday obligation
• masturbation
• sex outside of marriage
• sex inside of marriage (natural family planning)
• bestiality
• group sex
• monogamy
• in vitro fertilization
• same sex activity
• same sex marriage
• divorce and remarriage
• the ordination of women
• mandatory celibacy for priests in the Latin Rite
• the infallibility of the Church
• the infallibility of the Pope
• the divinity of Jesus
• reincarnation
• abortion
• euthanasia
• cloning
• Transubstantiation
• Reconciliation
• the Immaculate Conception of Mary
• the Virginal Conception of Jesus
• the Perpetual Virginity of Mary
• the Assumption of Mary into Heaven
• the Queenship of Mary
• the intercession of the saints
• the existence, presence, and power of the angels
• Heaven
• Hell
• Purgatory

Links

• "Modernism" (Catholic Encyclopedia).
• "144 Theologians Confront Hierarchy."
• We Are Church
  • We Are Church (USA): "A Part of the International Movembent (sic) We Are Church (IMWAC)."
  • International Movement We Are Church (IMWAC).
• Spiritus Christi.
• Community of St. Peter.