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To: Pyro7480
Definition of "Integrist"
102 posted on 05/19/2003 10:39:07 AM PDT by conservonator
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To: conservonator; Polycarp; sinkspur; Salvation
Thanks for the links. They were the same link, so I guess you were thinking along the same wavelengths. :-)

I went to the homepage of the organization that posted that article, and then found their purpose statement. These statements stuck out after I browsed the statement quickly.

TCR joins other Catholics loyal to the Holy Father and Church in opposing the neo-modernist revolution and its bitter manifestations, just as it opposes the others errors that affect and infect the modern world-- atheism, Communism, Socialism (old forms or new) the abortion epidemic, euthanasia, secular sex education, sodomy, radical feminism, syncretism, liturgical trendiness and kitsch, Integrist errors and all schismatic theology, etc.

We seek true liturgical renewal in the form of improvements to the Pauline, Novus Ordo liturgy, especially a restoring of the dignity and sense of the Sacred essential to Mass, restoring the contemplative and adorational dimensions to liturgy, including some of the Church's time honored Latin (See Cardinal Ratzinger's book, Spirit of the Liturgy, Ignatius Press).

We also seek a wide and generous application of the 1984 Indult for those orthodox priests and laypersons who are in full communion with the living magisterium and who desire it, seeking relief from neo-modernist abuses and anti-conciliar "personalized" liturgies which contradict the Roman Missal and Vatican II. We join Pope John Paul II in affirming, per the motu proprio Ecclesia Dei adflicta that:
"...it is necessary that all the Pastors and the other faithful have a new awareness, not only of the lawfulness but also of the richness for the Church of a diversity of charisms, traditions of spirituality and apostolate, which also constitutes the beauty of unity in variety: of that blended "harmony" which the earthly Church raises up to Heaven under the impulse of the Holy Spirit."

I couldn't have said it better myself. This is where I stand concerning the liturgical debate. This makes me a "traditionalist," by definition. Since I am faithful to the Pope's leadership of the Catholic Church, I am not a schismatic.

One last thing that I saw on the purpose statement was this quote, which I think is really good (it's by Chesterton, after all).

"Are we on the Left or the Right of the Church? We would much rather avoid those terms altogether. G.K. Chesterton once said: "The whole world is dividing itself into progressives and conservatives. The job of the progressives is to go on making mistakes. The job of the conservatives is to prevent those mistakes from being corrected."

125 posted on 05/19/2003 11:35:45 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
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