In the nineteenth century some Catholics started arguing that many of the ideas inspiring the French Revolution could be reconciled with Catholic thought as they were eventually Christian in origin. These men, who came to be called ‘Liberal Catholics’ had to endure hearing many rude things said about them by other Catholics (like the Pope, for instance). They did not like this and, after much thought, came up with a rather clever wheeze: they thought of a new word ‘integrist’. Meant of course as a term of abuse with which to denigrate their opponents (i.e. orthodox logical Catholics), and thereby created, with one masterful stroke of the pen, a climate of opinion in which they - the Liberals - would appear to be mainstream Catholics and their opponents a mere extremist sect within the Church.
Integrist doesn't apply to you, anyway, since you attend an Indult. It only applies to the schismatics.
You will notice a tactic of the integrists in the last few posts: Columba (a two-day newbie) comes on a dead thread and tries to stir the pot. This kind of thing has been specifically forbidden by the Religion Moderator.
But, she apparently has to establish her bona fides by fomenting dissension, even on Christmas Eve.
It is typical.
Thanks for the mini-history lesson, that was interesting. I've always seen the word integrist used as an insult here on the Forum, and wasn't familiar with the term at all before, but it always seemed to fall real short of its mark because of the root it shares with integrity, integral, etc.