1. One who is part of a hardline protestant splinter group of Catholicism that overvalues the parts of the
religion that most Catholics try to downplay. The Traditionalist breed value arrogance and exclusion and are schismatic and heretical. Their break with the Church is over Vatican II, an infallible ecumenical council. Through convoluted arguments, Traditionalists convince themselves that they can deny Vatican II's validity and still maintain communion with the broader church. They utilize many technicalities in their arguments to hide their abject rejection of the council.
They attend valid masses (usually Tridentine) and
even participate in Holy Communion, unknowingly disrespecting God and the true Church all the while.
Traditionalist "Catholics" tend to have delusions of grandeur and overly
high opinions of themselves. They are also the
type of
people who don't function
well without a strong authority figure in their lives. Their protestant
religion gives them the greatest authority figure of all: a vengeful God for whom mercy is a luxury gift reserved for the Traditionalist faithful
alone.
Real Catholics feel kind of
bad for Traditionalists, because Traditionalists act as if they are the true believers, and live life oblivious to the inherent heresy at the core of their beliefs.
2. Assholism
1. Mark is a Traditionalist
Catholic-Therefore-
Mark believes that the Catechism from the early 1900s is better than
today's Catechism. Mark is also not very smart.
2. Mark is a Traditionalist Catholic
-Therefore-
Mark is an
asshole
