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Against Right-Wing Modernism, by Jackson Gold – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Against Right-Wing Modernism, by Jackson Gold

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By Jackson Gold, OnePeterFive, November 18, 2025

Jackson Gold writes from the United States

 

The Church is in the midst of a serious crisis, the crisis of Modernism. Modernism is a deadly and insidious heresy, but what is not often stated is how it arises. It is a fact that Modernism, like an evolving disease, has many forms. While Modernism has many components, it all boils down to trying to do the impossible, the fusing of the Catholic faith with the demonic ideologies of the so-called Enlightenment. The Enlightenment itself is what spawned classical Liberalism, a truly evil and insidious ideology that was given infallible papal condemnations in Quanta Cura, the Syllabus of ErrorsRerum Novarum, Immortale DeiMirari vos, and Pascendi Dominici gregis. Modernism takes two forms, Left-Modernism and Right-Modernism.

Left-Modernism is much more noticeable, and its proponents usually operate under the guise of “Liberal” or “Progressive” Catholicism. Main proponents of Left-Modernism include the German Synodal Way, National Catholic Reporter, Outreach, New Ways Ministry, “Catholics for Choice,” and the Irish Association of Catholic Priests. These Left-Modernists are blatant about their plans. They are essentially nothing more than godless, amoral relativistic Atheists who seek the annihilation of the faith by forcing it to conform completely to the Enlightenment and accept every sin that cries to heaven for vengeance (such as sodomy, birth control, and abortion). They are social liberals who often take their cues not from Church teaching, but from Karl Marx, Baruch Spinoza, and Immanuel Kant. ….