Catholicism traditionalist

The Catholicism traditionalist (or traditionalism ) is opposed, since the Vatican II, to the reforming Catholicism often improperly named “progressionism” . It constitutes a running organized composed of roman catholics who wish to see maintained the uses of the worship and of the habits of the general body of Catholicism such as they were practiced before the reforms which followed the Concile Vatican II, which took place of 1962 with 1965.

The common point of these catholics is the attachment with the Rite tridentin, Roman rite codified by the holy pope Pie V in 1570, following the Concile of Thirty.

After a long crisis since 1970, marked in particular by the Excommunication of M {{gr.}} Lefebvre in 1988, the Église reinstated priests isolated traditionalists or groups - from which the Abbé Laguérie in September 2006 -, and comes, by the Motu landlord Summorum Pontificum , accompanied by a pastoral Lettre, published the July 7th 2007 by the pope Benoît XVI, to confirm that the Messe of saint Pie V (the Latin mass former to the council the Vatican II celebrated according to the missal published in 1962 by the happy pope Jean XXIII) repealed forever and to facilitate the use of the whole of the traditional ritual (in particular, the Mass, sacraments of the Baptism, the Marriage, Penitence, the Oiling of the Patients, the Confirmation, the reading of the Breviary).

Main features

A gasoline Catholicism “counter-revolutionary”

Many theses Counter-revolution naires and anti-liberal of XIXe (Syllabus of Black and white IX, theses certificated or refractory.) and which was opposed to the fringe liberal Catholicisme (also called Modernisme or Progressisme) are reprisent by the means of the traditionalism which thus makes to it the principal heir to the Catholicisme antilibéral. Many traditionalists thus refer to the judgment of the liberalism of Pie IX and to that of the modernism of Saint Pie X.

Attachment with the “rite tridentin” and the “Tradition” of the Church

The traditional Mass known also under the name of “Latin” or “Gregorian” known as of “Black and white saint V”, in opposition to the Novus Ordo Missae (or liturgical Reform) and the attachment with the “Tradition of the Church” is the two principal demands of this form of Catholicisme.

Principal mobilities of traditionalism

Among the figures of this mobility at the same time to the center and in margin of the Catholic church one counts Mgr Lefebvre founder of the sacerdotal Fraternité Saint-Magpie X and which was excommunicated in 1988, the abbot Philippe Laguérie higher of the Institute of Good Pasteur, and other members of the institutes or traditional communities Ecclesia Dei which is now attached directly to the Saint Seat.

Mobility “Saint-Magpie X” in margin of the Church

The critic of the last council the Vatican II considered to be “pastoral simply” and of its judged effects “devastators” belongs to the claims of the “hard fringe” taken along by the sacerdotal Fraternité Saint-Magpie X and by its founder Mgr Lefebvre. They advance that, since the council the Vatican II, the presentation and the comprehension of the teaching of the Church changed with an unacceptable degree in particular on oecumenism and the religious liberty. Their number is estimated at approximately 150.000 including 50.000 in France.

If sacerdotal Fraternity Saint-Magpie X and the related orders (Carmelite nuns, Frères of Fraternity and Soeurs of Fraternity) remains most known and numerically most important, this mobility gathers other religious communities, the principal ones being:

- For the men: Benedictines (Brazil, France, the United States), Dominican (France), Capuchins (France), Rédemptoristes (Scotland), Fraternity of Transfiguration (France), Fraternity St Josaphat (Ukraine) - For the women: Dominican teaching (France, the United States), Dominican contemplative (France), Franciscaines (France, the United States), Clarisses (France), Little sisters of Saint-Jean-Baptist (France)

Mobility “Ecclesia Dei” within the Church

The other part of faithful of this current, profiting from the indult Ecclesia Dei allowing the use of the rite according to the liturgical books of 1962, claims the reading “in the light of the tradition” of the texts of the council the Vatican II and wants of “to carry out a serious and constructive criticism” while referring in particular to the speech of the pope Benoit XVI of December 22nd, 2005. Their number is estimated at 150.000 including 40.000 in France.

Mobility “sedevacantist”

Come then catholic “sedevacantists” asserting the “ semper idem ”: those reject the validity of the clergy ordered after the reforms of 1969, as well as the authority of the popes since 1958, of Jean XXIII with Benoît XVI with which they are not in union. These popes would be, according to them, popes of a new Church, the conciliar Church, the Catholic church “being then eclipsed”.

They are based on prophecies of Notre-Dame of Salette, “the Church will be eclipsed”, and on the doctrinal changes which would have taken place during last pontificates. They are very minority.

Other forms of “traditionalism”

Lastly, to be exhaustive, it is necessary to quote two groups whose manpower are very weak, which recognize the Pope, but do not have any bond with the Vatican:

the “Against-Reform-Catholic” (CRC), founded in 1958 in France by the Abbot Georges of Nantes, suspense has divinis since 1966;
“Tradition Family Property” (TFP), association laic the, founded one in 1960 in Brazil by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. Initially near to Mgr Antonio of Castro-Mayer, this one deviates from this association in 1984, when the sectarian behavior of the founder continues.

Political positioning of the laic ones

Many faithful the “catholic Tradition” is committed politically trying to restore the political principles which worked the “Chrétienté” (Religion of State, doctrines of the Christ King, Syllabus.) and which is opposed to those of the French revolution. They claim for the majority of the French Nationalisme and the Contre-révolution.

Geographical presences

Catholicism traditionalist is well established in France where one counts nearly 400 places of worships, all confused tendencies. Then the United States and the rest of Europe come.

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