Wrong Yesterday and Still Wrong Today

I have mentioned before how I have heard Catholics defend and support non-catholic ideas and behavior as though they are in complete accord with what the Church teaches. This is occasionally true of pagan moral ideas (like abortion) as well as theological issues (protestant teachings, and sometimes even Hindu and Buddhist concepts). This touches significantly on yesterday's homily about "the blind leading the blind" and makes us ask ourselves who we choose as our teachers.

This leads me to consider the history of the Church for the last 50 years. Is it really a mere coincidence that at the exact same time that some Catholic clergy and theologians were seeking to protestantize the Mass (and denying that is what they were doing), that they were also saying that protestants do not need to convert and become Catholic because they are already going to heaven? It becomes quite clear that their goal was to water down our faith and make it a "least common denominator" generic Christianity.

For 2000 years the Catholic Church has condemned pagan philosophy as evil. For 500 years the Catholic Church has been at odds with and disagreed with the distinct priciples of protestant teaching. What was always wrong in the past, cannot suddenly become good and right! We are still to love protestants who are not yet ready to convert, they have valid baptisms and are in some way connected to the Church that Jesus created in the first century (though they are schismatic). That does not mean, however, that we are to ignore the differences. It could very well be the difference in where they will spend eternity.

Be careful who you are learning from. There are many things that the devil wants to entice you with and draw you away from our Lord. Commit yourself to the unchanging faith of our forefathers. What was once the truth, is always the truth.