The Economist this week carries an article on A traditionalist avant-garde. It’s trendy to be a traditionalist in the Catholic church. I thought it was very good - we are used to silly uninformed articles on the Catholic Church in the mainstream media and it is good to see something that is balanced and informative with an intelligent understanding of the issues.
Any of us might baulk a bit about the idea that being traditionalist is now trendy, but the Economist has picked up on something. We all want it to be much more than just trendy: it is up to us to make sure that it is.
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This is interesting. Speaking of traditionalist. First marriage at Abbey's high altar since royal wedding. Minor Canon, the Reverend Dr James Hawkey and his fiancée, Carol Ripley, tie the knot in September 2012. This guy was one of the Minor Canons who processed up to the altar during the Holy Father's visit to the UK. I recognized his face. It's a real shame that John Hall the Dean of Westminster isn't interested in the Ordinariate. But I guess prestige and money is more important.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20705095
Articles like this one always fail to address the reality of what really happened to the Church in the sixties. God chose to chastise the upper Hierarchy for ignoring His Mother at La Salette and Fatima. "He who restrains (The Holy Ghost) was removed" as Scripture has it, in 2 Thess 2. A remnant stands fast and holds to tradition against all odds. That's where we are today, still.
The article asks whether the Church took a wrong turn 50 years ago.
Yes it did, but thank God, it is now swinging back on course.
That course, as Pope Benedict has said, is forward “in Continuity”.
The liberal/Modernist attempt to compromise with the world in false and Relativised ecumenism has been a disaster.
And it’s about time we dropped the term Traditionalist Catholic. There are those who wish continuity in both liturgy and doctrine, i.e., Catholiocs, and there are Reformers, be they liberal, Secularist, Relativist, or indeed Modernist, who should either accept the established teaching of the Church,or leave.
"Women sport mantillas (lace headscarves). Men wear tweeds"
Hmmm... well, I've certainly never worn tweeds in my visits to the Oratory, and neither were the vast majority of men wearing them any time I've been there since the 1990s. A more ordinary bunch of people you wouldn't see, quite frankly, no different to your average church anywhere. Albeit rather more of them than in your average church (now why would that be, I wonder??? ).
Apart from that, I agree it's a pretty good article.
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