Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, kindly granted LifeSite an interview about his new book, Flee from Heresy: A Catholic Guide to Ancient and Modern Errors (Sophia Institute Press), whose publication date is today.
In this new interview (please see full text below), the prelate discusses the atmosphere of heresy and relativism in our Church today. “There reigns a ruthless relativism,” he says, further explaining that “philosophical and theological modernism,” as condemned by Pope Pius X at the beginning of the 20th century, “has been realized in all its devastating consequences in the life of the Church of our day.” Bishop Schneider goes on to say: “What’s more, even high-ranking ecclesiastical authorities in our day are promoting this modernism by various statements and official acts.” As a “prime example” of this modernism, he mentions the 2023 Vatican document Fiducia supplicans, “which authorizes the blessing of adulterous and sodomitic couples who cohabitate in a public and objectively sinful union.”
Asked about what lies at the root of today’s heresies, Schneider answers: “The root heresy of our time is relativism in its Hegelian characteristics. That means that [it claims] there cannot be a truth which is objectively always and everywhere in itself true. Truth is ultimately made by man and through historical development.”
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