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.
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." But this group of Protestants want to stay in the Catholic Church for reasons I cannot fathom.
The Litany of the Catholic Buts
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