Pardon me the point to laden
But what is new in all things pagan?
I would admit a point of ground,
When case considered in the round
That faced toward the pit of hell
The downward plunge one might misstell
A forward thrust, such as you claim
But, smell you not the stench of bane?

Of course, very often the Progressive thinks he's going forward when in fact he's going back by embracing very old errors and heresies. Cardinal Ratzinger understood this well because he is an expert on the theological errors of Joachim da Fiore