“Because true traditional (pre-Vatican II) Catholicism is the only true faith.”
As a Latin Mass goer, I have to remind you that there is no “pre-Vatican II” Catholicism. There is just the Catholic faith. If you’re going to think along the terms of “true traditional (pre-Vatican II) Catholicism is the only true faith” then we’re all doomed - even those who attend the Latin Mass. Why? For the same reason a former SSPX priest said this to me: “Many traditionalists hearken back to a Church which no longer exists (and probably never did).” He was still an incredibly devout Catholic, a missionary really, who only said the Latin Mass, and yet he realized - just as the Church has always taught - that nostalgia is spiritually dangerous.
Either the Church and what it definitively teaches is the truth now or it never had the truth in the first place. There is no “pre-Vatican” Catholicism any more than there is “post-Vatican II” Catholicism. There’s just the Catholic faith. Period. God got it right the first time and it’s just as right now, only people try distort it.
“...there is no “pre-Vatican II” Catholicism. There is just the Catholic faith...”
I think you’re missing the message intended. It is like what were Catholics to do during the historical Arien heresy?
I would suggest they were to follow the faith as taught up to it, not as infected by it, until it was defeated. (Ask Saint Athanasius.)
Before Vatican II, we prayed for the intentions of the pope and the conversion of Russia. Now it’s the other way round.
Thank-you and God Bless.
Well said: