![]() “Clericalism is a perversion of the priesthood: it is a perversion. That is why I wonder sometimes where our Holy Father Pope Francis is coming from when he equates such love of Tradition with what he calls the “perversion” found in so-called “rigid priests”. It’s a weaponized use of language to make someone into the “other” so we can write them off.Īnd yet, we cherish Tradition and the traditional liturgy and want to see it grow and flourish. Likewise, when we call people “rad trads”, it usually implies they lack charity and are overly zealous about the things of the past. When we say, for example, that someone is “woke”, we don’t mean he is enlightened, but that he is a virtue signaler. They tend to be overused (and often cringe-worthy) and usually degenerate into pejoratives. Need for clarityįor another thing, I am generally averse to using contemporary nomenclature because its expressions have a short half-life. I don’t need labels, and I don’t find them helpful, so I tend not to latch on to such terms. It operates by way of stereotypes and broad brush strokes and encourages tribalism, which isn’t always of benefit to our mission to “make disciples of all nations” ( Matthew 28:19). It tends to divide and cement the Church into factions (that people already know exist), and as our Lord says, “A house divided against itself cannot stand” ( Mark 3:25). Why?įor one, I simply don’t find a term like this especially useful. ![]() ![]() Although my family and I have attended the Traditional Latin Mass exclusively for the past three years, and have no intention of changing course, I would not consider us “traditionalists” in a strict sense.
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