I understand where you are coming from. It is frustrating when folks call any change modernism. Ven. Fulton Sheen said the Church is like a river. The riverbed is solid and the water dynamic. He says one errs by clinging only to one part rather than both. He calls one group neurotic and the other psychotic (I forget which is which). Many so-called "traditionalists" reject the water while the Modernists reject the solid foundation.
No, we shouldn't kill the organism, but its growth must be carefully monitored and tended by the gardners, that is the Pope and Bishops. They must prune away any destructive growths while nurturing those that are fruitful. That is their duty while our duty is to humbly accept their decisions on these matters.
Our teaching can't be our own, but rather of those who sent us. Christ was sent by the Father, the Apostles by Christ, their successors by the Apostles, and so forth. We are sent by our bishops.
I like St. Alphonsus Liguori--a great Doctor of the Church--because his teaching is never his own--his writings are practically all compilations of the writings of the saintsand Fathers, and Holy Scripture. Likewise, St. Teresa of Avila always preferred young priests as confessors--not because they were innovative, but because they had less self-confidence and therefore were more likely not to try and come up things on their own.
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