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Are all Liberals Modernist & are Most Conservative Catholics Semi-Modernist?

In my opinion, it is obvious that Pope Francis doesn't have even a remnant of Thomism. Nor does he apparently care about being loyal to the infallible Church teachings. He appears to be a Modernist (See:  http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-evidence-that-pope-francis-is.html?m=1 ): -"[T]he [Modernist] Blondelian schema holds that justification for the faith is to be found by turning inwards to the personal experience of the human subject. This turn to the subject is characteristic of modern philosophy, from Descartes right up to the Idealism of Kant and Hegel and beyond, and presented a major challenge to the traditional Catholic apologetics... If it were the case that inner experience justified the faith, if each person was to find the proof of God’s existence within their own life, then what would be the basis for the teaching authority of the Church?" - Neo-Modernist  AnthonyCarroll  [ https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20090724_1.htm ] "Between [M...

Semi-Modernist?: Three Theologians on the Pope’s ‘Paradigm’ Shift in Theology Larry Chapp / Eduardo J. Echeverria / Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/11/07/three-theologians-on-the-popes-paradigm-shift-in-theology/ Three Theologians on the Pope’s ‘Paradigm’ Shift in Theology Larry Chapp   /   Eduardo J. Echeverria   /   Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2023 Note:  Last week, following close on the heels of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis issued a Motu proprio, an Apostolic Letter on his own authority, calling for a “paradigm shift” in how theologians should practice their discipline. And he even specified that this paradigm should animate the Pontifical Academy for Theology in the future. Many have noted both the good in what he proposed – but also observe that those specific goods have long been part of our tradition, in some cases going all the way back to the beginnings of the Church. Which raises the question of what is “new” about the “new way” of doing theology he prescribes.  In particular, he calls for a  more  “synodal” ...