Thread by @RichardBSpencer

“Traditionalist Catholics” are horrified by the notion that they might have to receive the religion they’ve devoted their lives to in a language they actually understand.

“Trads” want “True Catholicism” to remain a vague, obscure, never-to-be-actualized, never to-be-questioned *thing* that they wave around as a counter-revolutionary force, a grand perversion, which stands for their (understandable) hatred of everything as it is.

I wouldn’t say that “True Catholicism” is an “idea” or “ideal” because it *is* the Roman Church, a real, existing institution, one that, in fact, operates quite swimmingly in the modern world these “trads” love to hate.

The Catholic Church either poses no threat at all—despite its trillions in assets—to modern life or else it has played a role in bringing this state of affairs about. It’s either/or.

So when I see these “trads”—to a man: short, overweight, and unmanly—rage against the end of the Latin Mass, I can only engage in psychology—of them, not Francis, who’s merely contemptuously flexing on the Right, like the top dog that he is.

Putting aside the aesthetic, high-brow quality of the Latin Mass—which I rather like—what’s so wrong about thinking clearly, in your mother tongue, about scripture, the message of the head of your church and his alter-ego, what you’re actually doing at the Eucharist, etc?

No scripture is written in Latin, instead Hebrew, Aramaic, and an Ebonics version of Greek. The “Latin” nature of the Catholic Church, and weekend LARP of the Mass, is only vampirically leaching off the Ancient world, whose religious system Jews and Christians overturned.

If @MattWalshBlog really believes the Latin Mass is bringin’ in the young people, then he should demand that, instead of a language none of these young people understand, the Mass be incanted in Spanish, or perhaps Yoruba. Francis might go for that one!

Or perhaps the trads would prefer that the Mass become a sonic tone poem. Wouldn’t it become even more “profound” and “mysterious” if Catholicism were articulated in no language at all?

Again, the real threat to Christianity is not lukewarm, progressive, or “cafeteria” Christians—but piercing light shined onto the Holy texts and doctrines. A real down-to-earth (in more ways than one) understanding of what this religion actually is and says.

It is true that most Christians don’t actually understand their faith, the “trads” are remarkable in being aware of this reality—and damn proud of it!