On 15 November 2025, I tweeted:
There seems to be two types of trads now alive in 2025:
1) Those who believe the Catholic Church is the unique mode of salvation established by Jesus Christ. These want 8 billion people alive today to come to God with as minimal dogmatic scandals as possible from the hierarchy.
2) Those who do not say explicitly, but imply nonetheless, the following: “The whole world can go to hell with Rome, as long as I get my local Latin Mass.”
I’m sorry, but I can’t see how a fraction of Christian charity exists in the latter group.
All I meant by that tweet is that traditional Catholics should not have to choose between defending traditional doctrine and traditional liturgy. But that tweet surprisingly went viral and brought out untold levels of rage from rad-trads who accidentally placed themselves in the second category. The amazing thing is that my tweet apparently effected exactly what it predicted: That those who defend the Mass but not the Faith truly have no charity in their hearts to others (including priests like me.) It’s amazing that they “out-ted” themselves into category #2—the very category with no charity.
The more feisty side of me wishes I could say, “They stepped into my trap…” but I set no trap with that tweet. I never expected it to have 87,000 views. That’s because I didn’t think it was that controversial. At least, not at first. (And keep in mind as you read this, I have not done the Novus Ordo Mass in about 10 years. Above is me offering the TLM in Brazil last year.)
Chris Jackson ended up writing a whole article about my tweet (and a few other things in the Vatican) right here. Jackson very much understood my initial assertion that we must love Jesus Christ and the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM.) It’s really not that complex that we need not divide those two. One of the comments I put under his article reads: “Yes it all comes down to courage. If the spirit you follow tells you that you must choose between dogma and liturgy, that spirit is one from hell.”
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