I hope the Catholic Church will be equally willing to place all its teachings in the dock of science and modernity, however, and not just the Bible.
Because it may not be true. I really don't know that much about the theory.
I thought "truth cannot contradict truth?" Maybe the stupid Church Fathers were as ignorant about the Bible as they were about natural science and must step aside to What We Now Know?
What is it that "we now know?"
I hope the Catholic Church will be equally willing to place all its teachings in the dock of science and modernity, however, and not just the Bible.
Modernism is different from empiricism, or "science." Modernism is rife with philosophical errors. And Church doctrines aren't quantifiable and measurable empirically.
The context is that the author of, say Genesis did not know exactly the meaning of the stories he was recording. He just wrote. Rationalists are prone to the notion that the Scriptures are "fictions." But a good pagan might have conceded that what was recorded were visions, something like those that Mohammed claimed to have had. Theologians have the habit of dismissing this notion of revelation, but "dreams" and "visions" continue to this day.