Actually it was Fr. Rutler speaking on EWTN about 10 years ago, who first began the process of my conversion to tradition. He was giving a talk on modern philosophies, and he was comparing the Catholic tradition of realist philosophy with the false and dangerous modern philosophy of phenomenology. I asked myself, "Wait a second, isn't the pope a phenomenologist?" That small pebble started the landslide until finally I realized that everything I had been accepting as part of the Catholic Church was "false and dangerous." I even had participated in Renew -- at a parish that was famous for being ultra-conservative. The pastor of this same ultra-conservative parish told my wife it was okay to use contraception. Then I realized that phenomenology was the underlying philosophy for the Church's new approach to morality as well. The whole thing was built on a lie; every bit of the "post-conciliar Church" was based upon a false and dangerous philosophy.