When Bishop Conley speaks of being unformed, he means unbrainwashed. When he says faith, he means loyalty. Land O Lakes did not destroy scholastacism, reality testing did. The Church thought it could say natural law with a nod and a wink toward papal authority and an educated Catholic laity would simply agree. You can have reason or authority. You can’t have both in same sentence. Faith is the courage to chase reason where it takes you, not to bracket it with the Magisterium.

Modernists are not to blame for the Church’s lack of creativity and stubbornness in dealing with the Eden myth in a world where evolution shows that there was no golden age of human perfection. The modern university did not doom the old thinking to irrelevance. It may be its salvation if you look at original sin as blame rather than an incident of disobedience and the Passion as a divine vision question to feel our human emptiness rather then an act of retribuation.