What does it mean to be a “traditional Catholic?” If you listen to some of our critics, it means we must slavishly fit their stereotype of a 1950s white suburban middle class American Catholic. And if we are honest with ourselves, perhaps sometimes we also have that expectation.
To be a traditional Catholic in this view means that we must be blindly obedient to the pope, we must desire complete Vatican centralization of the Church, and we must reject every jot and tittle of Vatican II….