The Hidden Cancer Modernists Dare Not Name: Indifferentism.

...the very preacher... lives immersed in the sin he claims to denounce. For the root of the “loss of the sense of sin” is none other than indifferentism—the sin of treating God’s Truth as if it were optional, negotiable, or unworthy of defense.

Prologue: A Striking Irony

Picture the scene: a video clip, circulating online and, in it a man, clothed to resemble a Catholic priest, raises his voice with utter gravity:

“The loss of the sense of sin in our society, in our world, is the greatest disease that has plagued humanity. That is why many persons do not even feel the need  for confession again. They don't feel the need to come for Mass again..."

At first, the words seem inspiring. Who could deny their truth? But then comes the irony, sharp and sorrowful: the very preacher of this lament lives immersed in the sin he claims to denounce. For the root of the “loss of the sense of sin” is none other than indifferentism—the sin of treating God’s Truth as if it were optional, negotiable, or unworthy of defense.

He wears the Dominican name, but he is silent where St. Dominic thundered. He bears the title of preacher, but his tongue is chained when Modernist heresy rages, and loosed only against intransigent Catholics those who resist compromise, and to vaguely decry “loss of sense of sin” or some other vague public speech which would pass as motivational and inspiring. 

Thinking of the brood of nominal Dominicans which he belongs we recall those the holy prophet described as: “dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams” (Isaias 56:10).

The Tragedy for Unsuspecting Faithful

Consider that the tragedy does not stop with him. It reaches into the lives of unsuspecting faithful. 

He notes that a result of the loss of the sense of sin is that people no long go to confession. But those who still retain some vestige of the Catholic sense, those who in sincerity of heart still seek forgiveness and grace, are led to the counterfeit. They go to what they believe to be confession—but the man before them is not a priest, only a layman robed to appear so. He has no power to absolve sins, no jurisdiction to reconcile souls to God. 

He laments that people no long attend Mass. But unsuspecting souls still with Catholic Sense go to what they believe to be the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—but what they find is no sacrifice at all. It is the New Order mess, an ecumenical service, a liturgical invention crafted, with the help of Protestants, to please Protestants and men of the world, but not an oblation acceptable to God.

Thus, though medicine is sought in good faith, poison is received in its place. They return with their sins still upon their souls, and worse, they are made to partake in an impious ecumenical worship that insults the majesty of God. What can this be but the bitter fruit of indifferentism—the lie that error can save, that falsity can sanctify, that God accepts all religions and all rites alike?

What Indifferentism Is:

Indifferentism is the belief that it does not matter what religion one professes, because all are equally pleasing to God, or at least that salvation can be found in any of them. It is the error that treats truth and falsehood as if they were of equal weight, and eternal destiny as if it could be gambled with. 

• Pope Gregory XVI, in his encyclical Mirari Vos (1832), defined and condemned it plainly:

“Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to your care.” (§13)

This error, Gregory called a “deadly error”, a poison that must be rooted out of Catholic souls.

Why Indifferentism Is Sin

The frenzy of indifferentism is not a mere mistake of intellect; it is a moral fault, a sin against the First Commandment.

1. Against Faith – It denies the uniqueness of Christ’s Revelation and the Catholic Church as the one ark of salvation. By treating all religions as paths to Heaven, it rejects the authority of Christ who said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man cometh to the Father but by Me” (John 14:6).

2. Against Hope – It presumes that man can save himself by his own efforts or by any religion he chooses, without grace and without the sacraments Christ instituted.

3. Against Charity – It is false love. To tell a man he may be saved in error is not mercy but cruelty, for it leaves him in darkness and deprives him of truth.

Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned this proposition:

“Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.” (Prop. 16, condemned)

Thus, indifferentism is not only a false opinion, it is an offense against God, who has spoken clearly in His Church.

The Popes Speak with One Voice

Throughout the nineteenth century, the Popes repeatedly raised their voices.

• Pius VIII, Traditi Humilitati (1829):

 “That erroneous and absurd opinion which is everywhere gaining ground, that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone, is most pernicious to the Catholic Church and to the salvation of souls.”

• Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (1832):

“From this poisoned source of indifferentism flows that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims liberty of conscience for everyone. This pest, opening the way to that absolute and unbridled freedom of opinions which spreads ruin far and wide, seems to cause some to fear that the reign of Antichrist is not far distant.”

• Pius IX, Quanta Cura (1864):

 “This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous opinion—or rather madness—that liberty of conscience must be claimed and guaranteed for everyone.”

Notice how strong the language is: “deadly error,” “pest,” “madness,” “ruin,” “the reign of Antichrist.” The Popes saw indifferentism not as an innocent mistake but as the engine of apostasy.

Indifferentism and the Death of Reason

Indifferentism tramples the very laws of thought:

• The law of identity says: a thing is what it is. The Catholic Faith cannot be “the same” as Islam, Buddhism, or Protestantism. To deny this is to call day “night” and truth “falsehood.”
• The law of non-contradiction says: two opposites cannot both be true. Either the Holy Mass is the true Sacrifice of Calvary made present, or it is not. Yet the so-called Novus Ordo “Mass” was deliberately fashioned to be acceptable to Protestants precisely because it is not the Sacrifice as the Church has always defined it. And yet, Modernists still call it “Mass” — a cruel deceit that lulls unsuspecting Catholics into thinking they assist at Calvary, while in truth they are dragged into an impious ecumenical service, pleasing to heretics but offensive to God.

You see? Indifferentism suspends reason, insults God, and dissolves truth into fog.

Catholic truth is clear as the sun: it shines, it burns, it gives life. Indifferentism is a shadow that darkens minds and rots souls.

The Necessity of Hating Error

Fr. Frederick Faber expressed it in unforgettable words:

…the crowning disloyalty to God is heresy. It is the sin of sins, the very loathsomest of things which God looks down upon in this malignant world. Yet how little do we understand of its excessive hatefulness! It is the polluting of God’s truth, which is the worst of all impurities… where there is no hatred of heresy, there is no holiness…

This is not cruelty but charity. To love truth is to hate falsehood. To love Christ is to despise what denies Him. To tolerate heresy is to betray Christ’s Bride, the Church, and to place souls in peril of eternal damnation.

Why Modernists Dare Not Name It

Here is the crux: why do Modernists, who cry out about the “loss of the sense of sin,” never mention indifferentism?

The reason is simple: to mention it would be to condemn themselves. Yes. Their entire system rests upon it. The so-called “ecumenical movement,” the “dialogue with all religions,” the New order ecumenical service crafted to be acceptable to heretics—all of it is built on the poison of indifferentism.

If they acknowledged indifferentism as sin, they would have to acknowledge that 

• their sacraments are false, 
• their worship impious, 
• and their project of a “united humanity” a work not of Christ but of Antichrist.

Thus, like men with cancer, they dare not speak its name. They prefer to lament vague ailments—“loss of sense of sin”—while refusing to identify the tumor that devours them from within.

Summing Up

The remnant faithful must awaken. 

• They must learn to distinguish the true from the false, the Catholic from the counterfeit. 
• They must hate error with a holy hatred, because it robs souls of grace and God of His glory. 
• And above all, they must cling to the one true Faith, the one true Priesthood, the one true Sacrifice—outside of which there is no salvation, and apart from which no man may be holy.

To weep over sin while tolerating indifferentism is sheer and vexing hypocrisy. To love God truly is to love His truth and to reject all that opposes it. The words of Fr. Faber stand as a trumpet-blast across the ages:

“There is no holiness where there is not hatred of heresy.”

Let us, then, be holy by being faithful. Let us be faithful by clinging to Truth. And let us cling to Truth by rejecting indifferentism, that hidden cancer Modernists dare not name.