Frank Wright examines two recent stories he presents as connected examples of the growth of religious indifferentism within the Catholic Church. First, Pope Leo XIV's interfaith remarks, which Frank characterizes as treating other religions as privileged paths to peace, contrary to traditional Catholic teaching about Christ and the Church. Second, a reported Indigenous smudging ceremony held at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Durham, North Carolina, illustrates the practical consequences of an increasingly expansive approach to interreligious dialogue.

Wright contrasts these developments with the Church's traditional teaching that genuine peace ultimately comes through Christ and the Catholic faith. Treating different religions principally as expressions of a shared human search for meaning eventually replaces supernatural religion with humanism and religious sentiment. The supernatural is replaced by the sentimental. The unique claims of Christ are replaced by a vague spirituality that offends no one and saves no one.

Pointing viewers toward St. Pius X's critique of modernism, Wright concludes that abandoning traditional Catholic doctrine makes practices once regarded as incompatible with Catholic worship increasingly normal within Catholic institutions. Smudging in a Catholic church.

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