What's Wrong with the World? Modernism! Give your priest this oath and ask if he would take it.

Today is the feast of St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, a protege of St. John the apostle and a martyr. What a model for us as modern heretics try to influence us to give a pinch of incense to Caesar. We need to follow in the footsteps of all the martyrs who refused to water down the faith in order to save their lives.

In fact, it would be good for every serious Catholic to take the oath against modernism and follow in the footsteps of the saints. As members of the Church Militant, we can only be effective if we fully embrace the faith and step out well armed on the battlefield, with love, charity, the Eucharist, and the rosary as our weapons. What does the oath affirm? I summarize it in the bold introduction to each section.

The Triumph of Modernism: An Explanation of the Current Crisis in the Church

Pope St. Pius X

I think what we are seeing in the Church today is the triumph of modernism. Modernism, a declared heresy (in fact the "synthesis of all heresies"), is the "smoke of Satan" that entered the Church after Vatican II. In 1907, Pope St. Pius X who battled modernism throughout his pontificate, required all clergy, religious superiors, professors in Catholic institutions, etc. to take an oath against modernism.
The oath professed belief in revelation, divine acts, miracles and prophecies as the "surest signs of the divine origin of the Christian religion." It professed adherence to the papal encyclical Pascendi which condemned modernism and its tenets very specifically. The oath rejected the "error of those who say that the faith held by the Church can contradict history, and that Catholic dogmas, in the sense in which they are now understood, are irreconcilable with a more realistic view of the origins of the Christian religion."