Catholic Traditionalists live in a world of lies, and they hang on to these lies with all their strength. These lies constitute the foundation on which they have built their spiritual lives. That foundation, which has been cracked and falling apart for years, is finally giving out. Like the horrible tragedy of the collapsed building in Surfside, Florida, the world of the Traditionalists is crumbling beneath their feet, and soon they will be surrounded only by a pile of rubble.
Traditionalists are always accusing the rest of the Catholic world of picking and choosing what they want to believe and throwing out the rest. Certainly that is true for a certain number of Catholics. Pope Francis himself has warned us of this trap, saying that such people have one foot out the door.
But no "Novus Ordo" Catholic can hold a candle to the Traditionalists when it comes to picking and choosing what they will believe. Traditionalists by nature reject everything that doesn't meet their own exacting standards, and that includes almost everything in the Church post-Vatican II.
They reject the Second Vatican Council pretty much in its entirety, believing that even if there were good things from the Council, the good is far outweighed by the bad and therefore everything must be rejected.
Traditionalists believe no one can be truly Catholic unless they love and attend the Traditional Latin Mass.
They have rejected every post conciliar pope to one extent or another, and of course, they have completely rejected Pope Francis as a heretic who needs to be condemned and removed from the papacy.
