“THE LITURGY IS the CHURCH— EVERY MASS CELEBRATED in the TRADITIONAL SPIRIT IS IMMEASURABLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERY WORD of EVERY POPE.” —Martin Mosebach
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SPECIAL EDITION “THE LITURGY IS THE CHURCH— EVERY MASS CELEBRATED IN THE TRADITIONAL SPIRIT IS IMMEASURABLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERY WORD OF EVERY POPE.” —Martin Mosebach On papal power and the meaning and implications of Francis $8 SPRING 2018 Publisher’s Note Despite the “Spring 2018” page footers, you are holding in EDITORIAL OFFICE: your hands the occasional edition—mailed free to selected read- PO Box 1209 ers like you—of The Traditionalist. Every edition is published Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877 with the hope that its cost will be partially covered by readers [email protected] like you—who see the return envelope inside and send a dona- Your tax-deductible donations for the continu- tion. Or who buy one of our books; see Roman Catholic Books ation of this magazine in print may be sent to ads herein, or visit our BooksForCatholics.com website. Roman Catholic Media Apostolate at this address. Catholic Books is our book publishing imprint, now going on 38 years old! 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Can anyone? 9 From the Desk of Cardinal Burke Foreword to the new edition of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s The Charitable 40 Bringing God’s Designs Anathema makes clear the thoughts of the Back to Life in America’s philosopher-theologian on Church crises Churches by Trent Beattie. A have not dated, though the last words look at some of the best news in recent he wrote are more than 40 years old. years: a revival of traditional architecture in Catholic church structures, a 25- year trend really gaining steam. DONATIONS & WILL BEQUESTS Your financial support and Will bequests to Catholic Media Apostolate, publishers of this journal and parent non-profit of Roman Catholic 11 Will Paul Correct Peter? Books publishers, will mean a George Neumayr’s devastating “take” on the Francis pontificate, now five years out. 48 What “Memory” Really lot as we navigate the choppy Means by Priscilla Smith 19 Tribute to Joseph Ratzinger, waters set in motion over McCaffrey. Means to a Catholic. the Pope Who Abdicated, by Martin the last several years. For Mosebach—who asks Catholics not 52 The Crucial Importance information, please write us at to forget Benedict XVI’s importance, of One Archbishop and One notwithstanding the increasingly widespread Lay Movement. Bishop Athanasius our Editorial Office, P.O. Box disappointment with his resignation. Schneider’s powerful introduction to the new 1209, Ridgefield, Connecticut history of Una Voce International and its 06877, or email same at 28 Tradition in the Balance work—which included defending Archbishop The veteran by Philip F. Lawler. Marcel Lefebvre, who refused to use the [email protected]. journalist, in his new book on Pope new missal and formed his seminarians Francis, lays out what’s at stake with Thank you very much! with the traditional Latin liturgy, incurring the pontificate, and where it differs the wrath not only of the Catholic Left, but significantly from all recent predecessors’. of the conservatives. Who was right? Cover Photo by Edward Pentin 2 Editorial Where Are We Going with Francis and His Men? here we’re going Lawler’s measured book, Lost Shep- intimately involved with the Council with Pope Francis herd, already has international reach. who implemented said Council, that is easy to see. To He throughly documents his pages, approach doesn’t work. Moreover, it’s make his direc- as befits a Harvard guy, and names those popes who chose every cardinal tion more clear names, in an understated manner that who elected Jorge Bergoglio. Those still, it’s spelled out in two recent books is a Lawler trademark. While Lawler’s popes own the Francis pontificate. Wthat analyze his pontificate—his words perspective has always differed slightly While it’s surprising that Pope and his uses of authority—critically. from, say, Michael Davies’s, this does Francis wants to cut a deal with the The newest, excerpted herein, is Phil not obviate the power of his book. In iconic Traditionalist Society of St. Pius Lawler’s—he of Catholic World News. a way, it’s enhanced. X, it’s unlikely that he has an affinity com note—and a second, The Political Permit me a minor digression: a for anything they embrace whatsoever. Pope, is by former editor of Catholic problem emerges in Phil’s allusion to When Francis had the chance to talk World Report magazine George Neu- “traditionalists.” That term is broadly with their leaders, he gave them less mayr. Although over a year old, it has applied to millions of people and to a time than he has to the LBGTQXYZs. not dated, and we also offer a key chap- few thousand or so opinion leaders, an Indeed, documenting such scan- ter in these pages. The Neumayr book uneven assortment of the clerical and dals fearlessly is one of many reasons sooner or later will have to be re-issued, small-publishing/blog orbit. Lawler’s indictment of this pontificate if only because he was the first to call Lawler says Traditionalists are is valuable. Because he is one of the out Francis in book form, cogently. like the Catholic Left in their view of deans of Catholic journalism, and has The sharpness of Neumayr’s criti- Vatican II because both sides see the an encyclopedic knowledge of recent cisms, which matches the tone Francis Council as revolutionary. Point taken. Catholic history, sentences like this adopts when attacking his critics in the I say Conservative Catholics—sav- practically jump from the page: Church, appears prophetic. ing appearances even as the Church “But if Pope Francis is free to dis- The Catholic press, still in denial writhed in pain from its Council and card the ideas of Pope Benedict [on the mode about Francis, ignored the its popes—are like the Catholic Left liturgy and established Catholic doc- book—despite the fact that Neumayr is because both sides see the Council’s trine], then a future pope should be free one of the finest wordsmiths and clear- words as sacrosanct, practically on a to discard the ideas of Pope Francis.” est observers of leftist hypocrisy in the par with Scripture. The conservatives’ Church. His columns are “must-read.” view is that the misunderstood Council It’s increasingly clear that our is, inherently, orthodox Catholicism. Argentinian pope, who uses his power Ambiguity in its documents? When we skillfully and forcefully to promote a have an ambiguity, they answer, what radical agenda, is determined to move we’re supposed to do, as loyal Catho- the Church into new territory: married lics, is interpret it in an orthodox way clergy, deaconesses, and a “loosening” and move on. of—a changing of—traditional teaching This worked for a while, but after on contraception. 50 years of ambiguity and three popes 3 “I Editorialam convinced that the reader will find the various essays published in the present volume a trustworthy guide to navigate the difficult times in which the Church finds herself today.” —Cardinal Raymond Burke enowned thinker Dietrich von • Positive and Negative Thinking.