Bishop Schneider calls on Catholics to be “100% Catholic” to proclaim the faith without vagueness or ambiguity. Bishop Joseph Strickland points back to traditional catechesis, the Oath Against Modernism, and the Syllabus of Errors as guides for navigating the crisis.
Frank Wright highlights the stark contrast between the clarity of these bishops and the confusion that has become the norm. Modernism has replaced clear Catholic teaching with ambiguity, and elevated contemporary political causes to the level of religious belief. Pope St. Pius X condemned this decades ago. The warning has been ignored.
The remedy is not innovation. It is catechesis. Sound Catholic education, rooted in the Church’s traditional teaching, is the only antidote. Schneider and Strickland are not proposing a new path, they are pointing back to the one that was always there. The crisis is real. The solution is clear. The question is whether Catholics will follow the shepherds who are actually leading.
