“Enamoured of our present epoch, blind to all its characteristic dangers, intoxicated with everything modern, there are many Catholics who no longer ask whether something is true, or whether it is good and beautiful, or whether it has an intrinsic value: they ask only whether it is up-to-date, suitable to ‘modern man’ and the technological age, whether it is challenging, dynamic, audacious, progressive.”
Dietrich von Hildebrand wrote: “It is sad enough when people lose their faith and leave the Church; but it is much worse when those who in reality have lost their faith remain within the Church and are giving to Christian revelation the interpretation that suits ‘modern man.’” pic.twitter.com/iSYc0BiuWM
— Kattoliko Pensiero (@kattolikamente) April 2, 2019
That second quote is from p. 223 of the first edition of 1967 (https://liberlocorumcommunium.blogspot.com/2020/02/sad-enough.html), though its reproduction here is a bit inaccurate.