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As this meme demonstrates, tradcaths blame the modern world for their personal miseries. Some want a glorious revolution and the return of the political and spiritual supremacy of the Catholic Church to solve their problems, not to make incremental changes to their own lives and communities.
[GUEST POST] 'Trad-Caths' and the Alt-Right Jessica Wills 2023
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I personally find the majority of them to be reactionaries; rather than having honest faith or a genuine interest in Catholicism, they often adopt the 'tradcath' identity as a marker of being anti-modernist and disapproving of perceived progressive (often western) society.
So-called "TradCaths" usually know very little about actual Catholic teachings. GamingVidBot 2025
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Itβs funny that at the exact same time these Silicon Valley types are saying this, the antimodern tradcath theocrats like Leonard Leo are asking the same rhetorical question
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As this meme demonstrates, tradcaths blame the modern world for their personal miseries. Some want a glorious revolution and the return of the political and spiritual supremacy of the Catholic Church to solve their problems, not to make incremental changes to their own lives and communities.
[GUEST POST] 'Trad-Caths' and the Alt-Right Jessica Wills 2023
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Itβs funny that at the exact same time these Silicon Valley types are saying this, the antimodern tradcath theocrats like Leonard Leo are asking the same rhetorical question
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I personally find the majority of them to be reactionaries; rather than having honest faith or a genuine interest in Catholicism, they often adopt the 'tradcath' identity as a marker of being anti-modernist and disapproving of perceived progressive (often western) society.
So-called "TradCaths" usually know very little about actual Catholic teachings. GamingVidBot 2025
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Yet, as a Gen Z Catholic myself, I can attest to the unique popularity and dominance of the #TradCath trend.
#TradCath: Why Gen Z rebellion means converting to Catholicism Samantha Smith 2025
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Most TradCaths also want to repeal Vatican II and many want to forcibly remove Pope Francis, so I'm not sure how that fits with their warped misunderstanding of the Church's infallibility.
So-called "TradCaths" usually know very little about actual Catholic teachings. GamingVidBot 2025
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Other organisations are not in communion with the Vatican. Sedevacantist TradCaths believe the office of the the Pope) is vacant due to all of them after Vatican II being heretics.
Wtf is a TradCath ? Smokescreen69 2025
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Most TradCaths also want to repeal Vatican II and many want to forcibly remove Pope Francis, so I'm not sure how that fits with their warped misunderstanding of the Church's infallibility.
So-called "TradCaths" usually know very little about actual Catholic teachings. GamingVidBot 2025
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