In a time in the Church where some of us seem to be practicing two different religions many of us are looking for the root problem. Now, honestly, the root is modernism, but the tool the Modernist Clergy (who know better) and the Modernist Laity (who often don’t know better) use is an interesting one. This tool is a formula for answering Traditionalist arguments. It goes something like this…

Trad: X is better for the Church than YInnocent Modernist: Well Y is allowed by the Church so it MUST be good, and therefore X and Y are actually equal it all comes down to intention.Herein lies the issue. Some people reading this see the issue with the response and could succinctly, clearly, and Charitably respond. However, many will think that the response is fine and good. To be fair the Innocent Modernist is onto something here. The Church cannot allow anything which is inherently evil.

What needs to be addressed here is what scripture tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:23, “All things are lawf…