A church cannot serve two masters. It cannot peacefully coexist with truths and falsities. To want to live with both and to seek a compromise will cause the church to be laid to waste. The church will perish, and the goods and truths of the Word will be taken away from it.

4761. These two [types] both make the dragon in one respect. Each wants to break the inner meaning and destroy it: the one utterly and completely, the other also by being unwilling to recognize the existence of any other Word than the literal meaning.