[From “Revolt of the Intellect against God”]

LIBERALISM in religion asserts that everyone is entitled to his own opinion — and to absolute respect for his opinions. It thus has the great advantage of giving the appearance of flexibility, open-mindedness, kindness and generosity

Yet beneath the surface lurks that horror of all horrors — dogma, the very thing Liberalism claims to reject

Beneath the appearance of complete tolerance, one finds stern, unyielding disapproval. Those who do not accept the primacy of personal opinion and hold that religious truth is based on the authority of God’s revelation, on the testimony of His word, (opinion be damned), are in for a rough time

Liberalism, as Fr. Felix Sarda Y Salvany wrote in 1899, “repudiates dogma altogether and substitutes opinion, whether that opinion be doctrinal or the negation of doctrine. Consequently, it denies every doctrine in particular. If we were to examine in detail all the doctrines or dogmas which, within the range of Liberalism, have been denied, we would find every Christian dogma in one way or another rejected—from the dogma of the Incarnation to that of Infallibility[…]
Liberalism — what is today often known as Modernism — was at the time Salvany wrote in the nineteenth century, the “dominating idea.”

Since then it has decimated the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and we live in the wilderness that Jesus himself predicted would come upon the earth before his glorious return

Tolerance and openness have created a wasteland, where true charity is as rare as water in the Sahara, where tolerance is vicious and the dogma-less are the most dogmatic of all. Man is prouder than ever of himself. He has “revealed himself to himself,” as the saying goes

He has successfully committed the final revolt, his mind and will against God, his own opinion first — and God seems not to have noticed