[Desdemona]

Maybe the better question for you is WHY?

Why are they trying to bring down the church?

Why are they trying to invent a new religion?

And why do they assume people are so stupid that they won't see it? (I actually know the answer to this one)

[ultima ratio]

Here is my take on why: because the truths of the faith do not tally with liberal assumptions about the way the world works. Virgin births don't happen, therefore the Gospel account is mythical. Ditto the Real Presence, the Resurrection, the Divinity of Christ--doctrines which test the boundaries of faith by asking for our childlike credulity and assent. This is offensive to such sophisticates who buy into historical criticism as a method to explain away such dogmas. Far easier for them to reduce the miracles of faith to mere symbols and myths. In a nutshell: modernists want to justify their own blameworthy deficiency of faith by reducing what Catholics believe to a form of natural humanism. Christ warned about this. He said we had to be childlike in the way we believed, something modernists cannot be.