When I tried to fit myself into a few of the caricatures of the Catholic Tribes in American put together by Michael Warren Davis and Damian Thompson
I somehow fell flat in the middle of nowhere. However, I know that
there are American Catholics that think like I do since I know many of
them personally, and perhaps, if I put this out there, I will find more
of them.
A few years ago I wrote about a group of people that I called “Hipster Traditionalists”—people
who love the Traditional Latin Mass, also known as the Extraordinary
Form of the Roman Rite, but don’t quite fit in with other
traditionalists. These days I think that the title Modern Traditionalist
is a better fit.
A Modern Traditionalist is a lover of all things traditional, not out
of a nostalgia for things pre-1965, but out of a real love of the
beauty preserved in it. For them it is not just a preference, but the
realization that the older liturgy is more beautiful and profound...
Read the rest at the National Catholic Register...
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