‘Satan uniquely entered the Catholic Church at some point over the last century, or even before. For over a century, the organizers of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, Liberalism, and Modernism infiltrated the Catholic Church in order to change her doctrine, her liturgy, and her mission from something supernatural to something secular.’ (Taylor Marshall, LifeSiteNews, October 4, 2019)
Here below is the reason why millions of souls abandoned the Catholic faith and chose science instead.
‘By confusing the mathematical outlook with the physical it is possible to arrive at all sorts of conclusions. It is not easy for an untrained mind to distinguish what is rightly proved from what is little more than speculation. Some of these conclusions are startling, and appeal to the popular imagination. It requires only a further step to apply them to the most obtrusive and sacred matters of philosophy and religion...’---Fr Henry V. Gill, SJ, M.A (Cantab.), M.Sc. (N.U.I.): Fact and Fiction in Modern Science, Gill and Son, Dublin, 1943, pp.71, 160.
‘In 1741, in the face of optical proof of the fact that the Earth revolves round the sun, Pope Benedict XIV had the Holy Office grant an imprimatur to the first edition of the Complete Works of Galileo.’--- Galileo Papal Commission; Nov. 1992.
‘In 1820, Canon Settele lodged an appeal [to obtain an imprimatur for his new heliocentric book] with Pope Pius VII (1800-1823)… In 1822 a favourable decision was given [by way of two decrees forbidding the censorship of ‘modern’ heliocentric books]. This papal decision was to receive its practical application in 1835 [under Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846)] with the publication of a new and updated index [emptied of all heliocentric books].’- Pope John Paul II’s Galileo Commission, 1992.
‘The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are. We cannot but deplore certain attitudes (not unknown among Christians) deriving from a short-sighted view of the rightful autonomy of science; they have occasioned conflict and controversy and have misled many into opposing faith and science.’--- Gaudium et spes, # 36.
The reference given to this passage was Fr Pio Paschini’s Life and Work of Galileo Galilei, a book on the Galileo case that had been subjected to ‘several hundred modifications’ after Fr Paschini died. Here above they have God supposedly leading the suspected heretical Galilean scientific reformers while all the Fathers, saints, Trent, popes, cardinals and theologians who defended Biblical geocentrism are depicted as little more than ‘fundamentalists.’
We see then, from 1741 popes began to take SCIENCE more seriously than Church teaching. But that ended from 1820-to 1835 when science became more truthful to them than the Bible and Church teaching. But not only that, if you objected to science and went by Church teaching you would be punished;
‘The most excellent [Holy Office of 1822] have decreed that there must be no denial, by the present or by future Masters of the Sacred Apostolic Palace, of permission to print and to publish works which treat of the [supposedly scientifically proven] mobility of the Earth and of the immobility of the sun [the defined heresy in 1616], according to the common opinion of modern astronomers, as long as there are no other contrary indications, on the basis of the decrees of the Sacred Congregation of the Index of 1757 and of this Supreme [Holy Office] of 1820; and that those who would show themselves to be reluctant or would disobey, should be forced under punishments at the choice of [this] Sacred Congregation, with derogation of [their] claimed privileges, where necessary.' Cited by A. Fantoli: Galileo; For Copernicanism and for the Church, p.475
‘All modern cosmology stands or falls with this concept [the Copernican Principle] being correct, even though, to quote a text approved by Einstein: “We cannot feel our motion through space, nor has any experiment proved the Earth in motion.”--Lincoln Barnett: The universe and Dr. Einstein, Dover Publications, 1948, p.73.’.
‘It is a duty for theologians to keep themselves regularly informed of scientific advances in order to examine if such be necessary, whether or not there are reasonsfor taking them into account in their reflection or for introducing changes in their teaching.’--- Pope John Paul II’s response to Papal Commission findings, 1992.