![]() They routinely reject actual church traditions, such as the preferential option for the poor, and refuse to consider reviving such egalitarian practices as having women deacons. They are enamored of an imaginary golden age of Christendom, an amalgamation of white neighborhoods in the 1950s United States, Victorian tea parlors and a technicolor version of the Middle Ages, complete with bright shiny crusaders and pious maidens. ![]() But he has now become concerned with what he sees as liberal Catholicism's dangerous opposite extreme: the radical traditionalist movement in the church.Ĭritics of radical traditionalism, myself included, have often pointed out that "rad trads" are in fact neither radical nor traditional. He connects these trends with the loss of the beauty and splendor of the Catholic cultural tradition. He coined the phrase 25 years ago, to critique modern or liberal Catholicism as "a faith that had become culturally accommodating, hand-wringing, unsure of itself."īarron has long combated post-Vatican II trends that he sees as anthropocentric rather than Christocentric. ![]() ![]() It's not the first time he's used the term. Bishop Robert Barron's recent piece detailing the "evangelical path" of his organization Word on Fire has provoked heated debate over his use of the term "beige Catholicism" to refer to the faith of liberal or progressive Catholics. ![]()
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