Priest defends ‘real Catholicism,’ traditional liturgy as best tools to restore Europe at conference Fr. William Slattery . ‘The Traditional Latin Mass and liturgy is where Catholic vanguards are born,’ said Fr. William Slattery. February 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – “Real Catholicism” and traditional liturgy are the best tools to bring Europe back to Christianity, a priest said last month at a Catholic conference in Ireland. Fr. William Slattery, author of a highly acclaimed book on how priests built Western Civilization, pointed out that what held “so many men and women ‘captive” for 2,000 years in Catholicism was the “thing”...