Traditionalist Catholic

The Catholic traditionalism is a movement within the Roman Catholic Church, which traces the recovery of certain liturgical forms and traditions as they were practiced and taught before the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) in the church.

Liturgical traditionalism

To meet the traditionalists, as far as they were concerned with the rejection of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, allowed Pope John Paul II in 1984, under certain conditions, the celebration of the Holy Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962 ( after since 1974 in community fairs exclusively by became Pope Paul VI. promulgated edition of the Roman Missal used). In his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI regulated. 2007, the conditions under which liturgical celebrations can take place in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, new.

Integralism

As rigorous manifestation of the traditionalism of fundamentalism is not particularly distinguished. This differs from the liturgical traditionalism principle in that it rejects certain incompatible with previous acts of the magisterium teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

Historically, the integralist traditionalism goes back to the defensive struggle of the papacy before the First World War, especially the Pope Pius X led against modernism. Traditionalists see the former defensive attitude towards modern time errors as an essential part of the teaching documents of Catholicism. The identity of the Church is true, according to Catholic believes the same in all ages; convertible is at most the historical situation in which the Church of Jesus Christ needs to fulfill its mandate; changeable is not the deposit of faith. Nevertheless, the Church is at the same time essentially standard with its appearance in the historical development of the same, at the same time but always capable of reform in terms of their views on a particular historical situation.

The greatest level of awareness among the spokesmen of Catholic traditionalism reached the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre died in 1991. His movement has a range of allegedly more than 600,000 followers. At the top of the movement, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X is having more than 500 priests, who separated in 1988 by the Roman Catholic Church. Illegal episcopal ordinations led its time for excommunication of the four bishops consecrated and consecrating two. The excommunication of the four devotees was on 21 January 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. repealed. They and the priests of the Society but are still suspended and apply according to Roman Catholic canon law as " Vagante cleric ", most of which were consecrated valid but in an irregular manner to the priesthood and religious act without permission.

The SSPX is accused by its critics, in their emphasis is confusing to a Catholic "tradition" with a total anti-democratic and anti-Semitic attitude. Sympathy for the SSPX will certainly also fed from older reasons, such as the rejection of the results of the July Revolution in 1830 through parts of the French aristocracy, or by more recent conflicts, such as a response to the consequences of the '68 movement, which was currently in the start-up phase of the Brotherhood.

Sedevacantism

While the general traditionalism the Pope as such, at least conceptually accepted, without the actual incumbent, but, at least in the liturgy question, always to obey, have also formed a number of the smallest groups that are of the opinion that there was for a long time (from about 1958 or later ) have no legitimate Pope of the Roman Catholic Church more.

Criticism

The criticisms of the Catholic traditionalism relating to its rejection of the Revolution of 1789 and the spread of some outstanding representatives of anti-Semitism and anti- Islamism.