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New Name for Traditional Catholicism

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A thought just occurred to me as I watched the attached link sent by a friend ... even though the video is non-SSPX ... I thought perhaps we need to ditch the label 'Traditional Catholicism' in exchange for what it really is: Catholicism.

I'm a Catholic, everyone else that attaches themselves to the errors that swirl within the Catholic Church are hyphenated Catholics - i.e. Modern-Catholics.  Better yet, perhaps they should just identify themselves by the original label given by Leo XIII: Liberal-Catholics

Frankly, I'd rather be Catholic ... as I have been since my baptism!

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  1. Lucas B.March 31, 2019 at 9:04 AM

    Agreed. Though it would make it difficult to converse with said Liberal-Catholics as both groups would be identifying themselves with the same word. It's similar to the problem with "Christians" of whatever denomination. Catholics being members of the One True Church founded by Jesus Christ, and Protestants being heretics who have willfully separated themselves from The Church, how do they, the Protestants, get to use the honorable and ancient title of Christian? But to distinguish between the two, we Catholics have, for the most part, dropped the use of "Christian" and gone to using "Catholic." Now we're forced to distinguish further and use "Traditional Catholic." Our words are being stolen.

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    1. TradicalApril 6, 2019 at 8:09 AM

      You are right ... I was in a grumpy mood. My apologies!

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