Conservative Catholics often speak of “traditional Catholics” to distinguish them from those Catholics that are lukewarm, heretical, or taken up with the new school of Modernism. But in actuality, the term traditional Catholic is redundant because a true Catholic is automatically traditional in his doctrine and religious practice. For Catholicism defined is adherence to Apostolic Tradition. There is no such thing as non-traditional Catholicism.
Concerned Catholics who identify as traditional are not trying to form their own groupings but are simply determined to be loyal Roman Catholics as they were called to be. These true Catholics have a special calling to let the light of tradition shine before men (Mt. 5:16) to reilluminate the Church and bring souls to Christ.
This witness for tradition is sorely needed today because so many Catholics are holding to detrimental ideologies and practices that are not of the Faith, only because the wide body of today’s Catholic bishops refuse to correct these errors and to nourish their flock with the pure waters of Tradition. Instead, they go out of their way to feed the flock with the errors of humanism, ecumenism, and modernism, which are not Catholic.
These modernistic errors and ideas include:
- The Mass is a memorial by definition
- The Mass is a community meal
- The Mass is an assembly or community gathering
- The Eucharist is blessed bread
- The Catholic faithful are part of a “common priesthood”
- Communion in the hand is blessed by God
- The Holy Spirit guided the changes since Vatican II
- Unity with the world is the work of God
- Mass in the vernacular is the work of God
- God wants to empower women to help lead the Church
- God wills that we include all in the Church
- God accepts us as we are
- God blesses our way of life forever
- God wills diversity of religions
- Christ did not exclusively found the Roman Catholic Church
- Luther was a “witness to the Gospel” who corrected abuses in the Church
- Other religions can provide a means to salvation
- Ecumenism is the work of the Holy Spirit to unite the Church
- The Church should not correct homosexuals but should welcome them.
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