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Once, it was just grumpy alt-right conservatives complaining about the liturgy.\u00a0 Then, it became radical rightists adding lists of perceived sins against orthodoxy by the official Church.\u00a0 Finally, it has become a full blown heresy separating itself from the Roman Catholic Church which has handed down the faith unbroken for 2000 years.\u00a0 Its name:\u00a0 The Rad Trad Heresy, short for the Radical Traditionalist Heresy.\u00a0 I may be the only one to have labeled it thus far, but I think my position is tenable.\u00a0 Some have called this pattern of thought schismatic, but the time has come for it to be condemned for what it is; namely, a perversion of truth masquerading as a return to the one true faith of Jesus Christ. One caveat: this particular heresy does not include conservative Catholics or even those who identify as traditional Catholics.\u00a0 This heresy is is far to the right of them and no longer deserves to be included in mainstream Catholicism.<\/p>\n
Heresies are comfortable things.\u00a0 They are always the easy way out of difficulties the Church might be facing in any historical age.\u00a0 Heresies offer simplistic answers to complicated problems.\u00a0 They almost always sound correct and proper and, just as often, the official Church is tongue tied at the beginning of a heresy when trying to battle heresies\u2019 pernicious lies. The Church is almost always caught unaware and takes some time to catch up while the heresy already has had quite some time to formulate its beliefs.<\/p>\n
What does this Rad Trad heresy seek to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n It seeks to stop the confusion in Catholic teaching among the faithful particularly in the areas of liturgy and morality.<\/p>\n Who are the spokespersons of this Rad Trad heresy?<\/strong><\/p>\n There are several individuals who propound several of the heresy\u2019s propositions.\u00a0 I am uncomfortable saying that they are the founders of the heresy.\u00a0 Yet there are two public teachers of the faith who should be called out as cheerleaders for many of this heresy\u2019s viewpoints.\u00a0 I refer to Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider who have taken upon themselves the mantel of papal correctors and inquisitors of all things they label evil in the Catholic Church.\u00a0 Both of these ecclesiastics seem too bright and learned to be labeled heretics but lately they have been skating very close to schism in their public utterances.<\/p>\n What do followers of this heresy actually believe?<\/strong><\/p>\n Under the banner of The Rad Trad Heresy are the following beliefs:<\/p>\n The crucial teaching condemning the traditional Catholic anthropological view of human nature as basically good is the lynch pin of The Rad Trad Heresy.\u00a0 The heretical teaching cannot get away from its negative view of humanity.\u00a0 To say that Christ came to save humanity because he found it worth saving would be like chewing ashes for a Rad Trad.\u00a0 This heresy subscribes to the Protestant vision that Christ came to save us even though we all deserved to be damned.\u00a0 Catholic orthodoxy accepts our sinfulness but says Christ came to save us because he found us worth saving.\u00a0 The Rad Trad Heresy comes close to a Calvinistic predestination vision for people who it sees as truly radical sinners, most visibly the homosexuals and, now, those in non-sacramental marriages.\u00a0 Their list is open to new members.\u00a0 No matter what these sinners do, short of a complete rejection of their life-style, a sure and final damnation awaits them.<\/p>\n That anthropology sets the stage for a radical revision of the person and purpose of Jesus.\u00a0 Jesus becomes an object to be adored in the Blessed Sacrament, not the dynamic Savior intimately involved in people\u2019s lives.\u00a0 Christology, down through the ages, has always swung between a belief in a too human Jesus and a too divine Christ.\u00a0 That\u2019s a poor word choice, granted, but it serves to show how difficult it is to keep the Chalcedonian definition of Jesus as totally God and totally human, 100% divine\/100% human.\u00a0 Rad Trads eschew Christ\u2019s humanity and in doing so, reject Christological orthodoxy.\u00a0 Scripture takes second place to its new replacement\u2013Mariolatry.<\/p>\n When the Rad Trads separated the Blessed Virgin from her scriptural basis as the one who brings Christ to the nations, they invented her as an apocalyptic prophetess of the final days. Apocalypticism, when it is scriptural, has a valued place in Catholic orthodoxy, but Mary as a figure of the apocalyptic end times is not scriptural.\u00a0 Her appearance in the Book of Revelation is that of the Mother of the Church, not the begetter of the end times. Mary is raised to an almost divine status, eclipsing her Son and becoming the focus of people\u2019s honor and devotion to the detriment of her Son. Many active Catholic lay people, however, are attracted to its \u201cdamn the world, bring on the apocalypse\u201d mentality.\u00a0 Although simply an observation, many dioceses have more public talks on Fatima and Mary then they do about Jesus and Scripture.\u00a0 People are attracted to apocalypticism and, as always in the past, Church leaders have to carefully educate the faithful on an orthodox way to hold the end times.<\/p>\n The Rad Trad Heresy denies the goodness of humanity, the human nature of Christ, and the authority of the pope.<\/strong> It is a poison to the hearts of all faithful Catholics. There is more, but these are the salient points of The Rad Trad Heresy.\u00a0 No doubt as time goes on, these points will get further clarified.\u00a0 A question remains about how many people actually subscribe to such a heresy.\u00a0 Its predominant presence rests in social media and fringe alt-right Catholic publications and lay conferences throughout the United States. Many of these people now hold leadership positions in the Church and in society.\u00a0 This gives them a voice out of proportion to the rest of the laity, but their influence should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n My purpose in this opinion piece is to raise issues for discussion.\u00a0 As time goes on, I will have to further refine what I believe The Rad Trad Heresy to be.\u00a0 But I would find it helpful if others would join in the discussion.\u00a0 What has moved me to write is the tremendous disrespect for the Holy Father now coming from the voices of this heresy.\u00a0 For the life of me, I have studied Pope Francis\u2019 speeches and teaching and I cannot find a single heretical view among them.\u00a0 It amazes me that some proponents of this new heresy even think he is not the official pope.\u00a0 I love my faith and union with the Bishop of Rome is essential to fidelity.\u00a0 So I write and learn.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Heresy For Our Times Once, it was just grumpy alt-right conservatives complaining about the liturgy.\u00a0 Then, it became radical rightists adding lists of perceived sins against orthodoxy by the official Church.\u00a0 Finally, it has become a full blown heresy separating itself from the Roman Catholic Church which has handed down the faith unbroken for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510,495,507,501,498,504,513,516,1],"tags":[522,534,70,531,528,381,525,519,61],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bishop-schneider","category-blessed-virgin-mary","category-cardinal-burke","category-catholic-anthropology","category-christology","category-heresy","category-latin-liturgy","category-radical-traditionalist","category-uncategorized","tag-bishop-schneider","tag-blessed-virgin-mary","tag-cardinal-burke","tag-catholic-anthropology","tag-christology","tag-heresy","tag-latin-liturgy","tag-radical-traditionalist","tag-ripped-from-the-headlines"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
Most Serious Error Is View Of Human Nature<\/h2>\n
Rad Trads Change The Nature of Jesus<\/h2>\n
Dispose Of Mary\u2019s Traditional Role; Invent Her As Apocalyptic Prophetess<\/h2>\n
Popularity Of\u00a0 Rad Trad Heresy Growing<\/h2>\n