Am I a Traditionalist? By whose accounting? There are those who would say I'm not, because I attend the Novus Ordo Mass. There are those on the other side who would say I'm a rigid, hardbound Traditionalist because I prefer the Tridentine Latin Mass.
My definition of a Traditionalist? It makes not a whit of difference which Mass you attend or prefer. Whether or not you pray Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary, as I do, or twenty. Let's quit using labels. Let's agree that a Catholic is one who adheres to the Catholic Faith, one who can recite the Four Creeds of the Church, the Apostles, the Nicene, the Athanasian, and the Creed of the Council of Trent, with both interior and exterior assent. One who gives interior and exterior assent to the Syllabus of Errors of Blessed Pope Pius IX, and one who gives interior and exterior assent to St Pius X's Syllabus Against the Modernists and and can swear his Oath Against Modernism without perjury.
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