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To: bornacatholic

Please inform me as to what a "liberal traditionalist" is? I find that phrase to be contradicting itself.


9 posted on 05/01/2005 6:05:02 AM PDT by Ambrose II (We cannot bend the Truth to our will, we must bend our will to the Truth.)
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To: Ambrose II
Please inform me as to what a "liberal traditionalist" is?

*Certainly. A liberal is, in essence, one who decides for himself. He is his own authority and he will "obey" the Magisterium if what the Magisterium Teaches agrees with his own personal opinion. If the Magsterium teaches or takes decisions he opposes, he refuses to submit to the church. He is, in a word, self-centered and egotistical. He does not love the Church. In a word, he is a protestant of the left.

A Libertrad (a liberal traditionalist) is the "right" or "conservative" counterpoint to a Liberal. He too, in essence, is one who decides for himself. He is his own authority for what Tradition is. When the Magisterium takes decisions about ecclesiastical traditions he does not approve of, he wars against the Magisterium - publicly and relentlessly. When it is pointed out it is the Magisterium which decides what is and isn't Tradition, he will begin citing the personal oponions of this or that theologian, far-right polemicist, schismatic etc and he will attack the very Christian Church Jesus established insinuating, if not outright claiming, the Magisterium is untrustworthy, devious, deceptive, and intentionally destroying Tradition. His will must predominate. He will not submit to the Church. The Libertrad is, in a word, self-centered and egotistical. He does not love the Church. He judges the Church corrupt, schismatic, in error etc. It must be his personal opinion of what constitues Tradition which prevails. In a word, he is a protestant of the right

10 posted on 05/01/2005 7:48:35 AM PDT by bornacatholic (Libertrads. Following the anathematized to perdition.)
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To: Ambrose II
Please inform me as to what a "liberal traditionalist" is? I find that phrase to be contradicting itself.

It's a phrase he made up a couple of months ago, just like the word he made up, "libertrad".

He's reknown for making up stuff.

12 posted on 05/01/2005 11:06:17 AM PDT by Grey Ghost II
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