
2. Modernism is the confluence, compendium, and rendezvous of all the heresies because it accomplishes what each of them on their own never could: the dissolution of the God revealed by Jesus Christ from the human mind. Modernism posits science as the judge of the sources of revelation, and as such, purges them of all supernatural content. Modernism assumes that profane science with all its changing and wrongly deduced theories and hypotheses is the canon or standard to use in measuring the truths revealed by God to man.
What then?
True science is judged by revelation, not the other way around. True science in St. Thomas Aquinas begins with God and ends with God. The essences and accidents of nature and nature's laws are subject to their Creator. This is not the case today, and if you imagine St. Thomas would be a scientist today like the great names of astronomy, biology, paleontology, cosmology, physics, etc.. then you would be wrong. St. Thomas would never imagine to separate natural sciences from theological science which is the judge and distiller of all natural truths and facts. The Catholic Church in our time has drifted far, far into the Modernist outlook that places science above theology (see: John Paul II's remarks to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 1992). This is a form of idolatry. We will never arrive at a true understanding of nature, science, metaphysics and sound philosophy by separating the Queen of sciences from her subjects or worse yet, subjecting revealed Truths to mere profane scientific theories.
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