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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Traditionalist_Catholicism
Traditionalist Catholicism is essentially a Catholic analog of Protestant fundamentalism, generally based on the idea that the Catholic Church lost its way with the results of the Second Vatican Council ("Vatican II"), and looking for a return to those earlier halcyon days. Some remain as a dissident faction within the Church; others have formed their own splinter groups on the assumption that the current papacy is illegitimate (e.g. Sedevacantism). Some groups have even appointed their own popes.
Many traditionalists are merely sentimental conservatives who long for a return to the Latin Mass and the Douay-Rheims or Confraternity translations of the Bible because that is the Catholicism they remember from their childhood. Many others, however, are complete crank magnets who also promote…
antisemitism
Holocaust denial
Islamophobia
Paleoconservatism
conspiracy theories about the Illuminati, Masons, and New World Order
a "Douay-Rheims only" movement (similar to the fundamentalist Protestant King James only movement)
the equation of Christendom with Europe ("Europe is the Faith and the Faith is Europe": a defense of colonialism at best and a Catholic parallel to Christian Identity at worst)
white supremacy (see above)
the preachings of Father Coughlin
the restoration of feudalism and monarchism
apologetics for the fascist dictatorships of Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Jozef Tiso, António de Oliveira Salazar, Ante Pavelić, and Philippe Pétain.
Young Earth Creationism
Flat Earth theory
Geocentrism
Some of them seem to want to undo not just Vatican II, but also the entire Age of Enlightenment. As you might expect, they also tend to be rabidly anti-Protestant, and stake out an opposition to abortion so extreme it makes other anti-abortion advocates look liberal by comparison.
Traditionalist Catholicism is essentially a Catholic analog of Protestant fundamentalism, generally based on the idea that the Catholic Church lost its way with the results of the Second Vatican Council ("Vatican II"), and looking for a return to those earlier halcyon days. Some remain as a dissident faction within the Church; others have formed their own splinter groups on the assumption that the current papacy is illegitimate (e.g. Sedevacantism). Some groups have even appointed their own popes.
Many traditionalists are merely sentimental conservatives who long for a return to the Latin Mass and the Douay-Rheims or Confraternity translations of the Bible because that is the Catholicism they remember from their childhood. Many others, however, are complete crank magnets who also promote…
antisemitism
Holocaust denial
Islamophobia
Paleoconservatism
conspiracy theories about the Illuminati, Masons, and New World Order
a "Douay-Rheims only" movement (similar to the fundamentalist Protestant King James only movement)
the equation of Christendom with Europe ("Europe is the Faith and the Faith is Europe": a defense of colonialism at best and a Catholic parallel to Christian Identity at worst)
white supremacy (see above)
the preachings of Father Coughlin
the restoration of feudalism and monarchism
apologetics for the fascist dictatorships of Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Jozef Tiso, António de Oliveira Salazar, Ante Pavelić, and Philippe Pétain.
Young Earth Creationism
Flat Earth theory
Geocentrism
Some of them seem to want to undo not just Vatican II, but also the entire Age of Enlightenment. As you might expect, they also tend to be rabidly anti-Protestant, and stake out an opposition to abortion so extreme it makes other anti-abortion advocates look liberal by comparison.
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