The modernist world is inherently blind.

Example I: From /r/catholicism, the Catholic forum on reddit, where someone's son disgraced his parents by announcing his idea of being higher than Our Lord.

My son (25) told my wife and that he is a woman and that he is using hormones to get a more feminine appearance. He told us that he wants me to call him by a new name and use female pronouns. And he changed his profile to him crossdressing. Frankly, I'm sort of lost for words right now. Our son has been my son for 25 years, and hormones cannot change that.

What would be the appropriate way to handle my son's new "identity"? Should we use his new name and pronouns? Or should we insist that he is my son, not my daughter. Obviously we don't want to alienate our son, but at the same time I don't want to encourage him to go further into this perversion.

Also, I'm wondering how I should handle his relationships with his siblings. He is the oldest of 7, the other children being aged 23, 21, 19, 16, 12 and 10. Obviously I can't control what the adults do, but I'm wondering if I should limit his interactions with our youngest. Family ties are important and I don't want to cause more pain on top of an already painful situation. But at the same time I don't want him to be a bad example and give them strange ideas. None of the children know he thinks he is a woman yet so we still have some time.

This is a very stressful situation for all of us and I would appreciate your advice and prayers.

 This is indeed a stressful situation. In this case, the son has decided to directly defy God the Father and His infallible idea of gender, an immutable characteristic, by "becoming" a woman. You cannot switch genders. No matter what modern medicine can do - and modern medicine can be a venerable tool - a man is a man and a woman is a woman, simply self-mutilating and perverting the ideas of Our Lord and on a way to deserved Eternal Hell, barring repentance.

This is what I posted in regards to his son getting a "sex-change" operation.

How could it not be sinful? How could it not be sinful?

A "sex change operation" is man - in all his deviancy, fallen nature and sinfulness - thinking he knows more than Almighty God by attempting to augment the immutable gift and characteristic He has given us. It is an act of defiance against Our Lord.

It's sinful because it's directly insinuating God, in all His Almighty Infinity and Divinity, erred. It is openly and perversely denying God, like Judas did in the last days of Our Lord's earthly life.

 A response, however taken out of the reddit formatting to add my own comments. Comments in red.

God, of course, never errs. Unfortunately, due to the stain of original sin, our bodies very frequently do err. [This I will grant you. Basic doctrine.]

How many people do you know with developmental defects, from a cleft lip to Downs Syndrome? And, when they get that cleft lip corrected, do you tell them they are "openly and perversely denying God"? No, of course not. When a man's cells go haywire, he gets cancer, and he starts chemo therapy, do you accuse him of "attempting to augment the immutable gift and characteristic He has given us"? No. We're Catholics, not Christian Scientists. [But that is medically necessary. I don't think you get it. If a man, God and Mary be with him, gets cancer and needs chemotherapy, he needs it to save his life. You don't get it.]

Heck, if somebody proved transsexuality was caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, then came up with a cure for it, would you tell your transsexual friends that taking that drug was an act of defiance against God? No. Very likely you'd consider it not just licit but a moral duty for your friend to take that drug. (And I would agree.) [Wrong. It would be curing said disorder. Transgenderism is a sin. It is the mutilation of the body to pervert Our Lord's creation that is a sin. Reversing that and going back to a normal state is encouraged, along with confessing said sins from that time.]

So the question before us is not, "Is transsexuality the result of original sin?" It is obviously the result of original sin. The question is, "Where is the problem: in the mind, or in the body?" Although many people on both sides are convinced they know the answer because "it's just common sense," actual evidence, to say nothing of proofs, are very hard to come by.

And if the problem does turn out to be in the body, rather than the mind, then it would follow that sex reassignment surgery is morally licit -- and perhaps morally obligatory for those with the means. [For crying out loud. It is not morally licit or obligatory to encourage someone to mortally sin. You're basically telling someone to literally go to Hell. ]

His comment was more well-received than mine and unsurprisingly, as it's primarily Novus Ordo.

Example II: Pope Leo XIII's Apostolicae Curae deals with the idea of Protestant Orders in a short sentence, saying that Anglican (and by extension, all non-Catholic orders) orders are void. No valid priests, bishops, deacons whatever. Despite Anglicans' insistence of their belief in the Real Presence of the Body and Blood, [Protestants believe in God and that might be the only thing they agree on] they do not. They have no valid transubstantiation. Jesus is not in their "Eucharist."

One such invalid Protestant bishop goes by the name Tony Palmer. Tragically, Tony Palmer is deceased. He was killed in a motorcycle accident in England last month. Tony Palmer was not a Catholic. He was Anglican. Not a bishop, nor a Catholic. This makes him ineligible for ecclesiastical burial according to Canon 1240 which bars heretics and schismatics.

Now, answer this question.

• Would Justin Welby, the head of the Anglican sect, be buried in a Catholic Requiem Mass? No.
• Would a shopkeep in Crown Heights that dies a Hasidic Jew be buried in a Requiem Mass? No.
• Would a Catholic-born-but-now-heretic open sodomite be buried in a Requiem Mass? No.

All of those people are denied by Canon Law access to burial. Why would a non-bishop non-Catholic be granted something like this? By this, Bergoglio the Modernist shows that he has contempt for the writings of holy, sainted Popes [bowed at Theodore Herzl's grave in May - The Jews have not recognized our Lord, we cannot recognize the Jews. (Pope St. Pius X)] and the Church itself. We cannot judge the state of another man's soul - the duty of which belongs to the Lord alone, but if Tony Palmer were to stand before Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest and True Judge at the hour of his death, is it likely that such a man who could've easily been a Catholic by way of his family and a conversion through Tradition would see the Eternal Bliss? I don't think so.

What a sad, sad, time we live in where deviancy is accepted and the Pope defies God so brazenly and openly. May God restore the True Catholic Church to its former glory worldwide that it rightfully deserves as the True Church of all men.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

Spotless Virgin Mary, especially in these days nearing the Assumption, pray for us.