text: I know. I was there back then, sitting through some of those classes. I know I am painting it darker than it was. It is probably just frustration on my part that people come on here and use " modernism" with little idea of how awful the anti-modernist effort became. 
  I have lived with people who have struggled, who are struggling, to overcome the poor catechesis of the past. There is great faith in many of them that is constrained by people who want to go back to those days.