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Fr. Scott Bailey, C.Ss.R.'s avatar

As I see it the biggest problem with Trad Inc. is that they’re all about externals. They focus on the TLM and not the OTF, the One (and only) True Faith. Without the OTF the TLM is just smells and bells, a performance, a show. That is not to say the TLM is not the Holy Sacrifice by which we are redeemed and justified. But there are many modernist clerics who celebrate it and many modernist Catholics who attend it but lack the OTF apart from which they cannot be saved. The TLM and the OTF are both together necessary for salvation. And both the TLM and the OTF must be LIVED.

Liam's avatar

If only the tsar knew….

I know Chris Jackson and others have pointed it out numerous times, but it is remarkable how Trad Inc. shifted so abruptly on May 8, 2025 and never looked back. It makes me wonder how many of its representatives are predominantly aesthetes, or on the other hand, are ‘controlled opposition’ themselves.

I still appreciate some of the commentators, but it doesn’t make much sense how quickly they’ve lost the plot on this. Are smiles and some traditional vestments, as opposed to Bergoglian scowls, really enough to sidetrack so many from the scandals out of Rome?

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