The Simpleton podcast, ​Ep 20: What’s Wrong With the Traditionalist Movement?

In this episode, Laura and Clark discuss negative, unhealthy parts of the traditionalist movement within the Catholic Church. There’s no problem with having a liturgical preference, but there is a problem with going to Mass and being a liturgical preference. Every Mass, no matter how dull or uninspiring, contains so many graces and Jesus’s Eucharist presence—that’s the whole point of liturgy. They discuss what a healthy traditional movement would involve: it will have people who are psychologically well and healed or healing, it will be inviting, and it will be positive. The things that go wrong within traditionalism—rigidity and over-exclusivity—are harmful to the Church’s efforts at evangelization, so it’s important for all of us, who are called to be missionaries, to understand these things.