Clarifying for forum archeologists: “traditionalist” in Catholicism refers to people who consider the theological claims and organizational changes in Vatican II to be illegitimate, or at minimum taken too far. Catholics who consider the Church to have divinely guided authority over religious and moral truths will sometimes call themselves “orthodox” (lowercase) Catholics, to distinguish themselves from those who don’t accept this & from traditionalists who accept everything up to Vatican II.
So, ozymandias intended to indicate “Davis accepts the Vatican’s teaching on sin, hell, sexual mores, etc”. Davis objected to an adjective that implied he rejects Vatican II.
Clarifying for forum archeologists: “traditionalist” in Catholicism refers to people who consider the theological claims and organizational changes in Vatican II to be illegitimate, or at minimum taken too far. Catholics who consider the Church to have divinely guided authority over religious and moral truths will sometimes call themselves “orthodox” (lowercase) Catholics, to distinguish themselves from those who don’t accept this & from traditionalists who accept everything up to Vatican II.
So, ozymandias intended to indicate “Davis accepts the Vatican’s teaching on sin, hell, sexual mores, etc”. Davis objected to an adjective that implied he rejects Vatican II.