Modernism has a different aspect on abortion, as Catholic Modernists don’t approve of abortion (unless the fetus is doomed anyway on its own – and we fail to see how that is a problem), but we accept that much of the who-haw on this issue is about sexually controlling women, not protecting life. Nor do we respect those who say they respect life but don’t offer a program which will work. We object to being lectured to on how we vote by a movement that has no real plan other than get elected.
Some Modernists are against increasing population. Those don’t understand economics.
On marriage and divorce, we are baffled by those proof-texters who won’t allow divorce because Jesus said so, but won’t go deeper into the same text when Jesus talks about families being unbreakable as one flesh and how this can be easily applied to gay families.
This is not being a do-gooder, this is seeking the truth – especially in how women and gays are treated. This is not a good-dead for the day, it is resisting evil in curial robes. Curial robes which sometimes don’t join us in condemning a more equal wage for families, so the CEO and the Janitor can both feed, clothe, house and educate their kids with equal quality accommodations. Its not good works we seek, its justice. Its not sociology either.
Just because the Church is ancient does not mean that it has a license to live in the past. Not on Episcopal selection, not on women and not on diocesan governance or pastoral attention. That is not social science, it is reform. All of these things can be changed, they are not doctrine. A change in clerical culture is simply not sufficient here and Francis needs to realize it. The change is inevitable.
As for theology, seminary theology and university theology are and should be different. Indeed, the right to search where the Clergy do not want us to is the essence of Modernism. We have an opinion on the Devil and whether he exists or not as well. Of course, the question is not settled, but we will examine it.
We are not being snide, by the way, about the pro-life movement. There is very real fraud going on and it must be rooted out for the movement to have credibility at all. One need only look to the Planned Parenthood video to see how depraved the Movement has become (as miscarriages have the same procedures for extracting tissue for research and diagnoses). Comparing the outrage over this to the righteous outrage over sex abuse is the kind of false equivalency that you usually find on CNN.
We do love Communion, of course and many of us believe everyone should get it all the time. Give the Baptists Catholic Communion and they won’t be Baptists anymore. The reluctance to do so is sociology (group dynamics) and excess pietism. Its time to stop both threads on the Eucharist.
On Carnality, the problem is not that we don’t support teaching to keep people from enslaving themselves to sex, the problem is the pietism of the enterprise, as if God has a purity agenda for people that serves his interests over and above human psycho-sexual health. Again, this is a modernist change, not a liberal one. The fetishism of Catholic sexual teaching in days past is a nightmare that drives many young people out. Its is time to escape it and get those youth back. Health, by the way, is not an ideology. When gay young men suicide because of the messages they are receiving from Church and family, someone is teaching error and it’s not the Modernists. We will wrestle with these questions and with the Church leadership until we no longer have to, but make no mistake, we will age out the Trads.
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