You know very well that the traditional Catholic Church didn't begin 40 years agoYou know full well you are not the full Catholic Church, even you must admit that. You and the excommunicated Bishops you follow are the Society of St. Pius the X. That began 30 years ago. It can’t even trace its lineage to the pre-Vatican II Church it claims to be, it didn’t exist before the Council.
- the new, pale imitation of the Catholic Church that has discarded all the traditions that we still hold to began then and has continued in a downward spiral ever since.Hogwash. Many customs and disciplines have been abandoned, especially by the modernists in the West, but you blur the meaning of the word tradition from meaning something formally defined by the Church to something simply done for a long stretch (can’t say all time because even the venerable Tridentine Rite doesn’t go back to Christ or the Apostles).
St. Paul instructed us to "Domini nostri Iesu Christi; itaque fratres state et tenete traditiones quas didicistis sive per sermonem sive per epistulam nostram; ipse autem Dominus noster ... " And that's what we're doing.You sound like a Protestant, though the rare one who speaks Latin. Who is the arbiter of what those traditions are? You? Bishop Fellay? Bishop Williamson? (I sure hope not.)
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