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Traditionalist Catholic and Traditional Catholic are broad terms used to denote Roman Catholics who reject some or all of the reforms that were instituted after the Second Vatican Council, in particular the revised rite of Mass, which was promulgated in 1969 by Pope Paul VI as part of the process of implementing the Council's decrees. (The revised rite of Mass is widely known as the Novus Ordo Missae or the Novus Ordo, though some non-traditionalists dislike this term; the older form of the Mass is widely known as the Tridentine Mass, though, again, some traditional Catholics prefer to use different terminology.) The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian body in the world. ...
The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ...
His Holiness Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ...
Then-Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) presiding over the 2005 Easter Vigil Mass at St. ...
Many traditional Catholics believe that it is necessary to continue to use the pre-Conciliar Mass, Catechism, and Code of Canon Law (or parts thereof) in order to keep the Catholic Faith.
Conservative and Traditional Catholics
Traditional Catholics differ from mainstream conservative Catholics in important respects, even though both groups are on the "right wing" of Catholicism and are united in their opposition to liberalism in the Church. Conservative Catholics accept (some with unease) the reforms that followed the Second Vatican Council ("Vatican II"), while traditionalists claim that those changes were Modernist, and thus out of step with historic Catholicism. Conservatives accept the revised liturgy of the Mass as valid and consistent with the Catholic faith, but traditionalists reject it as, at the least, "Protestantized," weak in doctrine, and dangerous to the faith of Catholics who attend it; some even regard it as sacramentally invalid. Similarly, while conservative Catholics tend to attribute post-Conciliar problems simply to liberal diocesan bishops who are disobedient to the Pope, traditionalists allege that the Council documents themselves were ambiguous and that the general pastoral orientation assumed by the Church after the Council has led to a "watering down" of Catholic teaching and practice. // Introduction Liberal Christianity, Progressive Christianity or Liberalism is a movement within Christianity that is characterized by the following features: internal diversity of opinion an embracing of higher criticism of the Bible, and a corresponding rejection of biblical literalism an intimate, personal view of God broader views on salvation than those...
Modernism was a term used by Pope Pius X to describe the doctrines of a group of theologians (chiefly Alfred Loisy and George Tyrell), notably the assumption that the Christian Church and its dogma are human institutions that have evolved in time like other institutions, and which are expressed like...
Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI) presiding at the 2005 Easter Vigil Mass. ...
Traditionalists sometimes refer to conservative Catholics as "neo-conservatives" or "neo-Catholics".
Traditional Catholicism and Sedevacantism Traditionalist Catholics can generally be divided into two groups. The larger group accept the authority of and claim to be in communion with the Roman Pontiff, though a considerable number of them refuse to accept some of his and other bishops' teachings and decisions, and are regarded by the Holy See as personally schismatic, even if they have not joined or formed a schismatic Church. Into this category falls the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, an attendee of the Second Vatican Council who was declared by the Vatican to have incurred excommunication for consecrating four bishops on 30 June 1988 in contravention of an express prohibition by the Pope. The Holy See acknowledges that an SSPX Mass is a valid Mass, but has declared that, in normal circumstances, attendance at it is "morally illicit" for Catholics (see Tridentine Mass). The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) is sometimes confused with the SSPX, but is in fact an entirely different organisation, having been established with the blessing of Pope John Paul II on 18 October 1988 by priests who disagreed with Archbishop Lefebvre's action of 30 June of that year. The FSSP celebrates the Tridentine Mass, but in no way dissents from the Church leadership. Whether the FSSP and other Vatican-approved groups are more appropriately classed as conservative or traditionalist is a matter of debate. Society of St. ...
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of Saint Pius X. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (November 29, 1905–March 25, 1991) was a leader of Catholics who oppose the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, especially in matters of ecumenism, collegiality, and the revision of the then existing Roman Missal, with...
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The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. ...
Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI) presiding at the 2005 Easter Vigil Mass. ...
A pre-Vatican II altar with reredosThe altar is preceded by three steps, as was most common for a churchs main altar, though some main altars, such as that in Saint Peters in the Vatican, had (and have) much more than three. ...
Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) at an ordination of FSSP priests in Wigratzbad, Germany in 1990. ...
The Servant of God Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as pope of the Catholic Church for almost 27 years, from 16 October 1978 until his death, making his the third-longest reign in the history of the...
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1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ...
The smaller group, called sedevacantists, believe in the papacy, but reject at least some of the "Vatican II popes", Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, who, they claim, have taught heresy and so lost authority, becoming antipopes . A small subset of sedevacantist groups, often called "conclavist", have elected popes of their own. Sedevacantism is the term commonly used to denote the belief, held by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics, that some or all of the men generally recognized as Popes since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 (Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, Pope John Paul...
The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. ...
The Blessed Pope John XXIII (Latin: ), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from October 28, 1958 until his death in 1963. ...
His Holiness Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ...
The Servant of God Pope John Paul I (in Latin ), born Albino Luciani (October 17, 1912 – September 28, 1978), reigned as pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from August 26, 1978 to September 28, 1978. ...
The Servant of God Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as pope of the Catholic Church for almost 27 years, from 16 October 1978 until his death, making his the third-longest reign in the history of the...
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: ; born April 16, 1927 as Joseph Alois Ratzinger in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany) is the 265th reigning pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City. ...
Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the ‘catholic’ or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. ...
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Other self-proclaimed Catholics who reject the Second Vatican Council and post-conciliar changes Others too, apart from traditionalist Catholics, reject the Second Vatican Council. Most notably, Eastern Orthodox Christians reject not only that Council, but all those that have followed the Great Schism. The Eastern Orthodox Church (encompassing national Orthodox jurisdictions such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc. ...
The term Great Schism refers to either of two splits in the history of Christianity: Most commonly, it refers to the great East-West Schism, the event that separated Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Roman Catholicism in the eleventh century (1054). ...
In the People's Republic of China, the State-sponsored Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) denies the papacy entirely and rejects all pronouncements by the Vatican since the 1949 Communist victory, including the revision of the Mass decreed by the Second Vatican Council, which was held later. Celebrating a non-Tridentine Mass there thus implied recognition of the authority of the Vatican and was seen as an act of political dissent. However, since the 1990s, the CCPA uses a liturgy modeled closely on the revised Roman rite of Mass. The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (中国天主教爱国会; designated variously as CPA, CPCA, or CCPA) is the organizational body of Catholics in China as officially recognized by the government of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
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From the Greek word λειτουÏγια, which can be transliterated as leitourgia, meaning the work of the people, a liturgy comprises a prescribed religious ceremony, according to the traditions of a particular religion; it may refer to, or include, an elaborate formal ritual (such as the Catholic Mass), a daily activity such...
CCPA is used as a way of exercising State control over the Church, and is one of the obstacles to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the Beijing government. There is a large underground Church that remains in full communion with the Pope, and many of the CCPA clergy – by some estimated at as much as 70% - have reconciled with the Vatican. In spite of that, members of the underground Church are often harassed, and some leaders have been jailed on political grounds. Full communion is a kind of relationship between two or more organizations of Christians. ...
The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. ...
Traditional Catholic claims Traditional Catholics see the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ, united by the same faith, the same sacraments and the same discipline that they see as having united Catholics from the time of the Church's origins. While agreeing that particular practices may change, they affirm that change must occur organically, with great prudence, and in a manner consistent with Scripture, Tradition, and Natural Law; it must certainly never harm souls or encourage sin or unbelief. Many traditional Catholics have taken as their motto: - We are what you once were.
- We believe what you once believed.
- We worship as you once worshipped.
- If you were right then, we are right now.
- If we are wrong now, you were wrong then.
Conservative Catholics would reply that traditionalists exaggerate the magnitude of the post-Conciliar changes, and that, in spite of their protestations to the contrary, they fail to distinguish properly between what is integral to the Catholic faith and what can change over time. (Many liberal Catholics would take a different view again, agreeing that important aspects of Catholicism have indeed changed substantially since the Council, but arguing that the changes are in fact desirable, since major elements of the Catholicism of the 1950s were inconsistent with the original practices of the early Church, inconsistent with the insights of modern times, or simply wrong.) Conservatives and traditionlists agree that eternal truth does not change, and that what was definitively taught 2,000 years ago, 1,000 years ago, and 50 years ago is still true today. Conservatives, however, believe that the post-Vatican II reforms merely represent necessary changes in ways of expressing the one unchanging truth made in response to changes in human society and culture, whereas traditionalists believe that they touch, or come dangerously close to touching, the substance of the Catholic Faith itself.
Foremost among the errors which traditional Catholics perceive in post-Vatican II Catholicism are:
- A new ecclesiology that they claim does not equate the Catholic Church with the Church established by Jesus Christ, but rather affirms that that Church "subsists in" the Catholic Church. They say this contradicts Pope Pius XII's Mystici Corporis, [1] among other papal documents.
- A new ecumenism that they claim has as its goal a false pan-Christian unity in which non-Catholics are not required to convert to the Catholic faith. They say this contradicts Sacred Scripture, Pope Pius XI's Mortalium Animos, [2] Pope Pius XII's Humani Generis, [3] and other documents.
- A new collegiality that they claim has weakened the papacy and made bishops' conferences a veritable "second Vicar of Christ". They say this contradicts Pope Leo XIII's Satis Cognitum, [4] the teachings of the First Vatican Council, and other documents. They accuse conservative Catholics of an attitude bordering on "papolatry" when the latter refuse to agree with them that certain post-Conciliar papal pronouncements are misguided or even wrong. Traditionalist Catholics, even sedevacantists, who reject the proclaimed Pope of Rome, firmly support the idea of the papacy, but claim that conservative Catholics have a distorted understanding of papal infallibility as defined by the First Vatican Council and of the nature of true Christian obedience as described by Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica, II-II-104. [5]
- A new perception that ecclesiastical tradition is changeable, which has led to what they see as dangerous modifications in Catholic practices, the liturgy, and the Church's pastoral orientation. They see this as a contradiction of the fourth anathema of the Second Council of Nicaea, the First Vatican Council (especially the document "Pastor Aeternus"), [6] and other papal and conciliar documents.
- A new attitude towards novelty that they claim was unheard of in the Church before the Second Vatican Council. They say this contradicts the saints, doctors and popes of the Church prior to Pope John XXIII, the papal oath, written by Pope St. Agatho (ca. A.D. 681) and taken by all popes from Pope St. Agatho himself to Pope Paul VI, inclusive, [7] Pope St. Pius X's Motu Proprio Sacrorum Antistitum (an oath taken by all priests prior to the Council), [8] Pope Gregory XVI's Mirari Vos, [9] the fourth anathema of the Second Council of Nicaea, and other papal and conciliar documents.
- A new focus on "the dignity of man" which they claim ignores original sin and the need for supernatural grace, and which they claim has led to a kind of utopianism that sees world peace as being possible without recognition of the Kingship of Christ. They see this supposed attitude, and teachings rooted in it, as contradicting Pope Pius XI's Quas Primas, [10] Pope Leo XIII's Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae, [11] Pope St. Pius X's Our Apostolic Mandate (Notre Charge Apostolique), [12] and other papal and conciliar documents.
- A new Paschal theology that they see as de-emphasizing the Sacrifice of the Mass and which they claim leads the faithful to believe that it is Christ's Resurrection, rather than His Sacrifice on the Cross, that saves. They view the revised Mass liturgy as a fruit of this "Paschal theology", allegedly characterized as it is by such things as the replacement of altars with tables, a focus on the community of worshippers rather than on the Eucharistic Sacrifice, and so on. They say this orientation contradicts Scripture and encyclicals such as Pope Pius XII's Mediator Dei. [13]
- A new philosophy that they see as characterized by relativism, a focus on the natural, and a corresponding de-emphasis of the supernatural. They claim this leads to deism, pragmatism, and moral relativism.
Traditional Catholics attend Mass offered in the Tridentine rite in local parishes (in places where where it is celebrated with the permission of the diocesan bishop - they refer to such Masses as indult Masses), in the chapels of priestly societies such as the Society of St. Pius X and the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, or in chapels run by "independent" priests unconnected with any diocese, religious institute or priestly society. The Venerable Pope Pius XII (Latin: ), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as Pope and sovereign of Vatican City from March 2, 1939 to 1958. ...
The word ecumenism (ek-yoo-muh-niz-uhm) is derived from the Greek oikoumene, which means the inhabited world. The term is usually used with regard to movements toward religious unity. ...
His Holiness Pope Pius XI, born Achille Ratti (May 31, 1857 - February 10, 1939), reigned as Pope and sovereign of Vatican City from February 6, 1922 until February 10, 1939. ...
The Venerable Pope Pius XII (Latin: ), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as Pope and sovereign of Vatican City from March 2, 1939 to 1958. ...
Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues. ...
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci (March 2, 1810–July 20, 1903), was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, having succeeded Blessed Pius IX on February 20, 1878 and reigning until his own death. ...
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St Thomas Aquinas Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition. ...
The Summa Theologica (also widely known as the Summa Theologiae) is the most famous work of St. ...
The Blessed Pope John XXIII (Latin: ), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from October 28, 1958 until his death in 1963. ...
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Gregory XVI, né Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari (September 18, 1765 - June 1, 1846), was Pope from 1831 to 1846. ...
Original sin is the doctrine, shared in one form or another by most Christian churches, that the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (called the Fall), changed or damaged human nature, such that all human beings since then are innately predisposed to sin, and are powerless...
His Holiness Pope Pius XI, born Achille Ratti (May 31, 1857 - February 10, 1939), reigned as Pope and sovereign of Vatican City from February 6, 1922 until February 10, 1939. ...
Pope Saint Pius X, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (June 2, 1835 – August 20, 1914), was Pope from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII. He was the first pope since the Counter-Reformation Pope St. ...
Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI) presiding at the 2005 Easter Vigil Mass. ...
The adjective Tridentine means pertaining to the city of Trent, which in Latin is called Tridentum. ...
Indult Catholics are those Catholics who prefer the old rites of the Tridentine Mass and are fully faithful to the Papacy. ...
Traditionalist Catholics encourage many of the same practices that ordinary Catholics are taught to value, including:
- Making sacrifices on Fridays
- Attending Confession on a weekly or bi-weekly basis
- Daily recitation of the Rosary
- Praying novenas
- The wearing of a scapular, especially the Brown Scapular
- Wearing modest clothing, especially in church
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The Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel promises salvation to its wearer. ...
Objections Objections to "Traditional Catholicism" from "mainstream, orthodox Catholics" basically amount to the following: - Catholicism without being in union with Rome is no Catholicism at all.
- Externals (cassocks, veils, Latin) are not essential, but are a matter of Church discipline.
- Development of doctrine and changes in ecclesiastical discipline are part of the constant tradition of the Church.
Attitude towards the Second Vatican Council Most traditional Catholics see the Second Vatican Council as a valid Council, but one whose decrees were not binding in conscience: it was, they say, a pastoral Council which produced no infallible definitions that Catholics must accept as a part of the Catholic Faith. In support of this claim, traditionalists point to Pope John XXIII's Opening Address to the Council, [14] Pope Paul VI's closing address, [15] the lack of formal definitions and anathemas in the Council's sixteen documents, [16] and the (alleged) ambiguity of the documents themselves. Some traditionalists claim that the Council was hijacked by Modernists and liberals, and that its documents were further twisted when interpreted and implemented after the Council. They see the alleged Modernist influence as due to ignoring papal warnings, most explicitly Pope Pius X's encyclical Pascendi. [17] In Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, an ecumenical council is a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. ...
The Blessed Pope John XXIII (Latin: ), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from October 28, 1958 until his death in 1963. ...
Modernism was a term used by Pope Pius X to describe the doctrines of a group of theologians (chiefly Alfred Loisy and George Tyrell), notably the assumption that the Christian Church and its dogma are human institutions that have evolved in time like other institutions, and which are expressed like...
Pope Saint Pius X, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (June 2, 1835 – August 20, 1914), was Pope from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII. He was the first pope since the Counter-Reformation Pope St. ...
Those traditionalists who consider John XXIII and his successors to be heretics and antipopes regard the Council as being totally invalid: a misguided act at best, and a Masonic plot to destroy Catholicism at worst.
Attitude of non-Traditionalists towards Traditional Catholics Traditional Catholics make up a small minority of the worldwide Catholic population: for example, according to an unconfirmed report, the Vatican authorities estimate that the relatively small number of 1.2 million Catholics support the SSPX.[18] Traditionalists, however, affirm that their numbers are growing, their seminaries, though small, are full, and demand for traditional Catholicism is high. Many of them see their situation as comparable to that of orthodox Catholics during the Arian crisis, when most bishops were either heretics or were forced by Emperor Constantius II to condone heresy. Catholics like St. Athanasius and St. Joan of Arc were vilified, yet later canonized. (Traditionalists sometimes claim that both St. Athanasius and St. Joan were excommunicated during their lifetimes; non-traditionalists, however, deny that St. Athanasius was in fact excommunicated by Pope Liberius, and emphasise that St. Joan's excommunication was imposed by a single bishop). Arian may refer to one of the following. ...
Heretic, meaning literally a person guilty or accused of heresy, is also often used as a title. ...
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Liberius, pope from May 17, 352 to September 24, 366, was the earliest pope who did not become a saint. ...
Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, has stated that "those who are attached to the old Rite are involved in expressing a legitimate religious ... sentiment that is ... rooted in the Ancient Tradition..." and that they should be "protected in their right to ... express their faith and piety...." ¹ In this, he was echoing declarations by Pope John Paul II, who, in his letter Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988, stated that "respect must everywhere be shown for the feelings of all those who are attached to the Latin liturgical tradition". Such approval is not extended by the Church leadership to those who reject the decrees of Vatican II and the decisions of the post-Conciliar Popes, and many liberal bishops and priests are actively opposed even to "Vatican-approved traditionalists". A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals, during a consistory. ...
A prefect (from the Latin praefectus, perfect participle of praeferre, to bring in front, i. ...
The Servant of God Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as pope of the Catholic Church for almost 27 years, from 16 October 1978 until his death, making his the third-longest reign in the history of the...
Ecclesia Dei is the papal document (technically speaking, a motu proprio) that Pope John Paul II wrote in reaction to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s unlawful consecration in 1988 of four bishops. ...
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Demographics The number of traditional Catholics is very hard to pin down. However, in common with other strongly religious groups, such as Muslims, Mormons, and Orthodox Jews, they tend to have large families and a high birthrate. Demand for the Tridentine Mass among the general Catholic population should not be underestimated, and many families have difficulty finding one to attend. Conversions from other religions (mainly Protestantism) are not uncommon, but the reverse seems to be quite rare. Traditional Catholicism can be found in the United States and western Europe (especially France and England), and there are also significant numbers of traditional Catholics in Canada, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand. A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ...
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Orthodox Judaism is one of the three major branches of Judaism. ...
A pre-Vatican II altar with reredosThe altar is preceded by three steps, as was most common for a churchs main altar, though some main altars, such as that in Saint Peters in the Vatican, had (and have) much more than three. ...
Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
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Traditionalist Organisations Traditionalist Catholic organisations include: Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) at an ordination of FSSP priests in Wigratzbad, Germany in 1990. ...
The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (Latin: Institutum Christi Regis Summi Sacerdotis) is a society of priests in the Catholic Church that celebrates the Liturgy in its traditional form according to the liturgical books promulgated before the reform of 1965 and 1969, or what is commonly called the...
The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales is a Roman Catholic society based in Britain that is dedicated to making the Tridentine Mass more widely available. ...
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The Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen is a traditional Catholic religious community. ...
Pope Pius XIII of the true Catholic Church (tCC) The true Catholic Church (tCC) is a small Roman Catholic Conclavist (see sedevacantism) group based in Montana, United States. ...
Traditionalist Media The Catholic Apologetics International is an American Traditionalist Catholic publishing house. ...
The Catholic Insight is a magazine published in America with a Traditionalist Catholic viewpoint. ...
The Remnant Newspaper is a magazine published in America with a radically Traditionalist Catholic viewpoint. ...
The Latin Mass Magazine is a quarterly magazine published in America with a Traditionalist Catholic viewpoint. ...
Christian Order is a British based monthly magazine for Traditional Catholics. ...
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See also The Ecclesiastical Latin phrase Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (sometimes briefly Extra Ecclesiam), literally meaning outside the church there is no salvation, is a slogan that summarises the doctrine that one must be a member of the Roman Catholic church in order to be saved. ...
Father Leonard Feeney (1897-1978) was an American Jesuit priest who defended the Catholic doctrine extra ecclesiam nulla salus, or outside the church there is no salvation, arguing that baptism of blood and baptism of desire are unavailing and all non-Catholics therefore go to Hell. ...
Sedevacantism is the term commonly used to denote the belief, held by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics, that some or all of the men generally recognized as Popes since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 (Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, Pope John Paul...
A pre-Vatican II altar with reredosThe altar is preceded by three steps, as was most common for a churchs main altar, though some main altars, such as that in Saint Peters in the Vatican, had (and have) much more than three. ...
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Pro-traditional Catholic publications - Patrick Henry Omlor, Questioning the Validity of the Masses Using the New, All-English Canon
- Michael Treharne Davies, "Cranmer’s Godly Order" ISBN 1912141247, "Pope John's Council," "Pope Paul’s New Mass" ("Liturgical Revolution" trilogy).
- Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, "Open Letter to Confused Catholics"
- Father Paul Kramer M.Div., STL, "A Theological Vindication of Roman Catholic Traditionalism"
- Christopher A. Ferrara and Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., "The Great Facade: Vatican II and the Regime of Novelty in the Roman Catholic Church" ISBN 1890740101
- Romano Amerio, John P., Fr. Parsons, "Iota Unum" ISBN 0963903217
- Atila Sinke Guimarães, Michael J. Matt, John Vennari, Marian T. Horvat, "We Resist You To The Face" ISBN 096721663X
- Monsignor Klaus Gamber, "Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its Problems and Background" ISBN 0912141050
- Griff Ruby, "The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church - A Guide to the Traditional Catholic Movement" ISBN 0595250181 and ISBN 0595771491
- Benns T Stanfill and Bawden Davin, "Will the Catholic Church Survive the Twentieth Century?" http://www.WillCatholicChurchSurviv.Homestead.com/Book.html
Footnotes 1 An Exclusive Interview with Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, The Latin Mass: A Journal of Catholic Culture, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 5–6.
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