Professor Marcin: The Covert Nullification of the Heresy of Modernism

by Professor Raymond B. Marcin Professor of Law Emeritus, The Catholic University of America. [Thesis Statement: Our Catholic Church has been backing away from its definitive 1907 condemnation of Modernism as a Heresy ever since its dalliance with the Heresy of Modernism in the Second Vatican Council. This leaves our Catholic Church in an untenable position. The common if not universal belief among Catholics is that reconciling our Church with the Modern World became the purpose of the Second Vatican Council shortly after it was convened. One problem with this well-founded belief is that reconciling our Church with the Modern World implicates the very essence of the Heresy of Modernism. Another compounding problem is that every Vatican-II-Council-member who cast his final vote of approval for all the teachings of the Second Vatican Council had taken an Oath Against the Heresy of Modernism. Yet, the course that our Church has currently chosen for us to follow is that very course that …