Thursday, May 12, 2022

Theology for Trads II: "Traditional" traddy bullsh*t

This is actually a pretty good example of traddy bullsh*t. Of course, it's Feeneyite (i.e. pre-Vatican II) bullsh*t rather than Lefebvrite or "sedevacantist". But the huge effort they've put into denying a perfectly orthodox theological opinion (i.e. baptism by blood) is directly comparable to sedevacantist attacks on the doctrine of the Church's indefectability, or indeed the more improbable complaints of Peter Kwasniewski about the liturgical "reforms" of the 1960s. (Bugnini is to blame for the decline in Christian marriage, supposedly.)

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

A Problem with Authority

What can one say of the tragedy of the Society of St Pius X that has not been said already, and better, by other people? Most tragically of ...