Thursday, May 15, 2014
The Exotica of Monarchy
No comment on the rest of this annoying article (definitely not endorsed!), but it's tiresome to see the way
neoconservative critics of Catholic traditionalism frequently bring up
"love of monarchy" as if that's a self-evidently bad thing, an
example of what's wrong with the traditionalist movement, and one of
its adherents' major themes (if only it were!). Actually, in the United States
monarchists are (unfortunately) a minority even at traditionalist
Catholic chapels. And in a society as messed up as ours, what on earth
is wrong with a little "exotica"? Chris Ferrara's reply is apt: "I am
glad to see that you have found peace and contentment in the sty of
Republican Catholic conformism."
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Certainly many trads can be a bit tactless and uncharitable. But this man is one of a long line of Catholics that is all to embarrassed of Catholicism.
"I am glad that you find comfort in your 1950s Catholicism but some of us see the sham for what it was."
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