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Merrily suggested this American Thinker article, and thank you for it M. This is not just a story of a church gone sour enough to invite Hitler to a Bar Mitzvah, so to speak. In another context it describes the process by which we're losing our wonderful country. To Wit:
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The process started a
century ago, when the Catholic Church was attacked by a group of
internal heresies that Pope Pius X collectively defined as "modernism".
This vague and polymorphous movement, which one might call "Catholicism
Lite", was a rationalistic reduction of the Bible to mythology and of
Catholic doctrine to tentative opinions that could be changed to suit
the mood of the times
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The words "living constitution" resonate in my brain cave, wot? Here's a bit more to tidy up, but do read the entire article.
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The
hopes of these crypto-modernists were revived when Vatican II was
convened. Now at last, the Church would set aside its mythological
doctrines and, at the very least, abandon its archaic prohibitions
against homosexuality, divorce, contraception, and abortion. Or so the
secular media predicted and the liberal theologians hoped. But none of
these changes took place; Vatican II modified Catholic rituals but left
its doctrines and moral code intact
When overt confrontation fails, dissidents usually resort to covert
infiltration. Liberal theologians did whatever they could to thwart
Pope John-Paul II's efforts to disseminate traditional doctrine. For
example, while his monumental and traditional Catechism of the Catholic
Church had already become available in most languages and countries,
American scholars dragged their feet for years before grudgingly
issuing an English translation acceptable to the Vatican.
Simultaneously, liberal seminary officials began discouraging "rigid"
conservative aspirants to the priesthood and favoring more "flexible"
liberally minded candidates. This weeding out process, described in
detail in Michael Rose's Goodbye Good Men produced an overall shortage
of priests and tended to bias the crop of future priests toward
liberalism [3]. Thus, in imitation of the replication mechanism of
viruses, liberal theologians used traditional Catholic institutions to
reproduce their own kind and disseminate them throughout the Church.
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