This piece does a very good job of summing the Modern-Day Catholic illness.
For a long time, progressive Christians have tended to equate the faith with humanitarian illusions—with utopian sentimentality rather than a morally demanding politics of prudence rooted in right reason and natural law. Divine caritas has been displaced by a selective, highly politicized compassion, and the Christian affirmation of moral equality has transformed into a doctrinaire egalitarianism, at once naive and aggressive. Inequality per se is now treated as a grave moral fault, as if the comprehensive leveling of the social order were either possible or desirable.
An older Catholic Church’s recognition of the grave evils associated with totalitarian regimes and ideologies has largely been forgotten. Islam is described as a “religion of peace” by popes, theologians, and bishops alike, and any suggestion to the contrary is dismissed as rooted in fear or ignorance. In recent papal pronouncements, self-governing nations are treated with suspicion, while international organizations—however prone to denounce decent Western political orders and imbued with hostility to a Christian view of the human person—are assumed to be the primary vehicles of a global common good. Borders must remain open, whatever the consequences for the stability of political communities facing large-scale immigration; “migrants” are cast as the contemporary image of the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt ahead of King Herod’s henchmen. The survival of Europe’s age-old “Christian mark,” as the French Catholic political philosopher Pierre Manent has put it, no longer appears to be a vital concern of the Vatican....
FWIW, that summary defines the Progressive Heresy and, incidentally, the Masonic Heresy.
And it is operative in most US Diocesan offices, the USCC "Catholic Charities" office, and the USCC itself.
Other than that, things are just fine.
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