text: Part 1
  Like I said Tridentinus, sounds to me like you haven't read the syllabus in a long time. Go back and give it a read, along with commentaries placing the list in historical context. Over and over again, the emerging ideas the syllabus condemned, have become truisms for virtually all modern people, including arch-conservative Catholics. 
  
  As for Ratzinger, we have to distinguish the early (pre-1968) Josef from the later Josef. The early man was as progressive (in our terms) as they come; the later man was definitely interested in turning back the clock, but back to 1960 not 1860. Neither Ratzinger was an anti-Modernist as defined by the magisterium. 
  
  As for scripture, I would suggest that Ratzinger's acceptance of modern scriptural scholarship as a method was complete, and this is perhaps a prime data point for establishing that he was not anti-Modernism.