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Friday, October 05, 2007

You might be a Traditionalist if...

This is meant to be light-hearted, so don't give me any sassy comments on it. You might be a Traditionalist if:

When fighting with your spouse about finances, the kids or time spent with friends, you begin all your arguments with, "As St. Thomas says..."

Your iPod is full of titles such as Regina Coeli, performed by Cantores in Ecclesia, and Lauda Jerusalem by M.r. Delalande.

Your homeschooled child's curriculum consists entirely of volumes 1-4 of the Baltimore Catechism.

You can't stand listening to Teresa Tommeo.

You are pressing for the canonization of Tomas de Torquemada.

You suspect Al Kresta of Modernism.

When asked your opinion on whether or not the parish council should get the parking lot repaved, you say, "let me see what the 1917 Code of Canon Law says on that..."

You are extremely suspicious of the Luminous Mysteries.

Your favorite popes are Innocent III, Boniface VIII and Julius II.

Your eye twitches and you get nausea when someone starts throwing around expressions like "fruitful dialogue", "liturgical riches" and "pastoral issue."

EWTN is too liberal for your tastes.

You are still angry about the English Revolution of 1688.

You would like to see the pope exchange the Pope-mobile for the good old litter carried by servants.

Scorning the phrase "Separated Bretheren," you still refer to them as heretics.

You liked Latin...before it was cool!

Paradoxically, the song "They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love" makes you want to murder people.

In your heart, you feel the biggest bunch of atheists and murderers in the history of the world were not the Nazis or the Soviet Communists, but the French Revolutionaries.

You can more easily sympathize with the pre-Christian pagan Greeks and Romans than you can with the post-Reformation Protestants.

You still pray for the conversion of the "pernicious Jews" on Good Friday without any scruple at all.

Your favorite saint is St. Louis IX, the Crusading King of France.

You suspect Mother Teresa of syncretism.

And finally:

You are more familiar with the writings of Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X and Pius XII than you are with those of John Paul II.

5 comments:

Alexander said...

Its funny because I seriously fit most of those.

Alexander said...

Okay well.. maybe a few of them..

Athanasius said...

Ditto, I would only add:

You might be a Trad if abundant fruits means to you burning Hans Kung, Richard McBrien and Cardinal Mahony at the stake.

Little Ferret said...

Hey I'm all for the canonization of Tomas de Torquemada!

As for Mahony. Forget burning I'd use my bare hands!

( Note to FBI I kid! I kid! )

Mind if I pass this around?

Henry said...

I fit all of these! Torquemada new the REAL definition of Ecumenism! Ha-ha! Don't forget the canonizations of Fr. Tomas Luis de Victoria and G.K. Chesterton! (And Cardinals Siri and Ottaviani while were at it - and the exoneration(sp?) of Archbishop Lefevre.)