Catholics are mostly quite conservative as I an ex Catholic.
The priesthood has been infected by progressive Marxists and many homosexuals with an agenda that has nothing to do with traditional Catholic beliefs. They actually wish to destroy The Church of Rome.
Oddly this infection came from the sixties as these progressives became professors in our universities and seminaries.
Today I unfortunately attend a non Catholic church as my church left me. I had no choice. It is a conservative church.
I miss the tradition of the old Mass. That is mostly gone now with the exception in the Spanish community. Went to Mass a while back with my wife, she is from Mexico and I am a gringo that speaks Spanish. It was for Ash Wednesday in San Antonio. The priest was a gringo that spoke decent Spanish but not perfect. It was okay and much enjoyed.
have a good day
“I miss the tradition of the old Mass.”
I would miss it, too. Thankfully, it is around everywhere today. Go find it and get back to the plow.
Uh, look again.
No. Survey after survey has reported in detail that at least half of those whom Rome manifestly considers to be members in life and in death are liberal, and traditionalists make up a small minority. In contrast to those who most strongly esteemed as the accurate and wholly inspired word of God, with its basic literal hermeneutic, who have long testified to being the most conservative and unified large religious body.
Oddly this infection came from the sixties as these progressives became professors in our universities and seminaries.
When leadership is made the supreme authority than than unchanging Scripture (as described above) then when leadership goes South then so do the flock that follows them, while dissident TradCaths essentially become like fundamental evangelicals in that they determine the validity of church teaching based upon their judgment of what past church teaching says and means.
But for us it is Scripture, while besides liberal theology,distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).