"Progressive religion" is a contraDictio in se.
Sure, for the presentDay vegetating tramps "progress" means not more than more drugs&copulation. But whoever is still able to think freely knows, that "progress" was&is the ideoLogy of the bourgeoisie in order to create a heaven on earth, a regnum hominis - what contradicts all religiosity.
I don’t think you can say this. Regulating society is one of the things that all religions do. When the Mosaic laws were instituted they were an attempt “to create heaven on earth”.
No, they weren't because the Jews weren't so stupid to expect perfectness and salvation from them, but were still waiting and hoping for the MESSIAH! Let alone, that the latter promised one - how could HE, when HIS public appearance ended in crucification? When HE predicted the rise of the AntiChrist?
ELIOT's "catholic realism" means, that catholicism (and all religion) is "a laughter" (Ps.2) to any imManentism promised by certain cryptoCommunistic sects along with laborRats (COMTE's "positivistical priests"...), left agitators and other bourgeois creatures.