tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9649790229389488802024-03-06T22:34:41.627-05:00Common Sense CatholicismKevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.comBlogger359125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-87700295689187713742023-08-03T18:42:00.002-04:002023-08-03T18:42:42.716-04:00Humanae Vitae and the End of the Devotional Papacy As mentioned in the previous installment, the papacy during the time from 1860 to 1960 was a carefully managed play where Popes had theoretically great power, but that power was very limited in the wider world. Within the Church, this power was viewed to be supreme, and the papacy came to be viewed as less in terms of governance and more in terms of devotional spirituality. Yet Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-48359659987856769172023-07-18T18:20:00.003-04:002023-07-18T18:20:47.747-04:00Eras of the Modern Church: The Devotional Papacy A staple of discourse in modern Catholicism surrounds the Second Vatican Council, and its rammifications for the Church as a whole. While this is an interesting debate, there are other ways to understand the Church. The Council can intersect with these, but I think its possible to talk about the crisis in the Church as an overall crisis of the Church encountering the age of Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-49451731602772316232023-05-30T21:44:00.002-04:002023-05-30T21:44:41.084-04:00Chartres and the Failure of Liberal CatholicismThis past weekend in France, there was an annual pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres, something that has always been a key unifying moment in the life of traditionalists. Whatever our differences, we tend to put our differences aside and show a united front to the world once a year with that pilgrimage. This year we saw a particularly strong showing, with more than 20,000 pilgrims Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-56159246585034180922023-04-08T10:46:00.000-04:002023-04-08T10:46:06.178-04:00Rolling Back the Stone: An Easter Reflection While most of you will be spending the Triduum in Church proclaiming the Resurrections, I will likely only be with you in Spirit. A nasty case of Norovirus has swept through our family, leaving us either out of commission or still recovering. It is still very much an open question if I will fee recovered enough to show up to Mass on the day seemingly all Catholics do.Like Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-20502061110919376072023-03-27T12:19:00.003-04:002023-03-27T12:19:49.049-04:00What is Vatican II's Relevance Today? In our journey of faith, we all have these moments which to the outside observer seem weird and inconsequential, but for us are eye opening. It is one of the ways in which God speaks to us as one who is known by name. Different things are tailored to different people. I'd like to share a brief story which I hope will become more apparent by the end.The year is 2012. Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-42985035492818047782022-12-20T16:21:00.002-05:002022-12-22T09:51:01.484-05:00Incompetence or Corruption? When I think about the case involving Fr. Marko Rupnik, a lot comes to mind. But one thing that comes to mind more than any was an old speech by the Russian Revolutionary Pavel Milyukov. In a speech criticizing the Tsar and his ministers, Milyukov asked something along the lines of "are they corrupt or incompetent?" In other words, are they stupid, or is their Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-62174234908889211552022-11-17T18:02:00.000-05:002022-11-17T18:02:05.098-05:00The Real Story Behind the USCCB ElectionsThe USCCB gathered this week to decide who would lead the conference for the next few years. As always, The Pillar has a decent rundown. One thing that is clear this week: the media courtiers who style themselves as the Magisterium of Pope Francis are very mad online this week. For them, the USSCB elections represent a slap in the face of the Pope, as the current cropKevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-21606085385207556702022-11-01T17:27:00.001-04:002022-11-01T17:27:24.133-04:00Church Life Journal: Getting The Band Back Together Since the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes (and its subsequent ignoring), trads have had a lot of field to play on. The likes of WPI and the various liberal organizations have more or less ceded the entire playing field to traditionalists, instead just trying to frame their position as one of raw papal power politics: the pope commands it, therefore it must be right, proper, and obeyed. Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-68104797247315023162022-10-11T18:33:00.003-04:002022-10-11T18:33:46.586-04:00The Spirit of Vatican II: Prolonging the Inevitable In commemorating the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, the Vatican's office for the Synod said it was the job of the Synod on Synodality to "to prolong, in the life and mission of the Church, the spirit of the Second Vatican Council." Today, Christopher Lamb proclaimed that the "Vatican II team" was a "once brilliant team low on confidence" (a polite euphemism for Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-2681078034907102032022-06-29T18:00:00.002-04:002022-06-29T18:00:21.956-04:00Professional Catholicism and the Sons of Noah "You should write more on this.""Are you ever going to start writing again? Here's our submissions address.""You have a unique voice in today's landscape. You should use it more."As we enter this time of extended darkness in the Church, I am told these things. I always think its a great idea, and yet when I try to write.... I got nothing. That's not entirely true.&Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-83097255504102887572022-04-20T18:37:00.004-04:002022-04-20T18:37:50.642-04:00Stories of Motor City TraditionalismThanks be to God, I was able to attend the Easter Vigil according to the Traditional Latin Mass last night. It was a bittersweet experience, as it will be my last in the state of Michigan. Next month I'm moving to Ohio, or at least the Michigan suburb that is Toledo. As I sat during the (very long!) chanting of the lessons, my mind drifts, as it does even when it is proclaimed in Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-41174604442073579452022-03-31T18:15:00.003-04:002022-03-31T18:15:28.729-04:00The Obedience Vibe I've been a traditionalist for over two decades now. I have learned a lot in that time. Yet I have had one particular difficulty I want to confront today: that regarding obedience, or rather the vibe of obedience.Obedience is something precious to the Catholic conscience. Christ praises the obedience of the centurion, who understands the importance (and Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-56535286552227721902022-02-21T17:59:00.002-05:002022-02-21T17:59:53.848-05:00Pope Francis' Strategic WIthdrawl on the 1962 Liturgical Books In a decree on February 11th (released today), Pope Francis said the following:The Holy Father Francis, grants to each and every member of the Society of Apostolic Life “Fraternity of Saint Peter”, founded on July 18, 1988 and declared of “Pontifical Right” by the Holy See, the faculty to celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass, and to carry out the sacraments and other sacred rites, as well as to Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-57546694938186247552022-02-01T19:28:00.000-05:002022-02-01T19:28:18.849-05:00Was Sheen Wrong?"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”Attributed to Archbishop Fulton J Sheen, one could say that this quote not only captures the essence of the modern apologetics movement in the Church, but the Second Vatican Council as well. I thought about this quote Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-77021489300458677112021-12-18T14:10:00.002-05:002021-12-18T14:10:28.812-05:00To the Suffering Traditionalist My words today are not to those idiots and bad faith actors, nor are they to an increasingly feckless and irrelevant Rome, mad that the world does not operate the way they think it should. That is the animus and impulse for this morning's Instruction from the Congregation of Divine Worship, which purports to regulate what mass times parishes are allowed to advertise and purports to Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-36522491044505094702021-11-12T18:12:00.000-05:002021-11-12T18:12:03.184-05:00Rome's Tactical Retreat on Traditonis Custodes After the promulgation of Francis' motu proprio restricting the Latin Mass, everyone braced for a new war to begin on traditionalists. Liberal blogs and pundits squealed with excitement over the idea of causing traditionalists even an ounce of spiritual discomfort. Traditionalists braced for trench warfare with the Bishops Everyone prepared to fight the Liturgy Wars Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-65444212557753805322021-10-26T18:55:00.001-04:002021-10-26T18:55:16.711-04:00The Incredible Shrinking PapacyNews out of Poland this week on the front of Traditonis Custodes. The Polish Bishops had their visit to Rome, and during this time in Rome they had discussions regarding the motu proprio, and the in their view overly harsh restrictions the Pope wanted the Bishops to enact. In their own words, they said (English translation courtesy of Christine Watkins):The Tridentine liturgy was Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-36522586752734265262021-10-11T19:30:00.001-04:002021-10-11T19:30:33.354-04:00A Traditionalism for the People: Reading the RoomWhen you ask people what traditionalists advocate, you will first hear about the Latin Mass. You may hear that they "oppose Vatican II." (Whatever that means.) Yet a third thing you might hear is that traditionalists advocate a Church that has little role for the laity. We believe in a top down Church where the laity mostly exist to pay, pray, and obey.In fairness, Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-11669982508565889842021-09-29T18:58:00.002-04:002021-09-29T18:58:24.211-04:00Bitter Trad Syndrome Engage in any discussion long enough regarding trads, and eventually the subject comes up, like clockwork. "But why don't you stand up to the angrier trads? SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THEM!" Sometimes, this question is asked sincerely. A lot of the time, it is in bad faith. What is meant is "why don't you spend more time telling people they aren't holy enoughKevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-2816156148927805752021-09-28T19:27:00.001-04:002021-09-28T19:27:09.845-04:00The Changing Landscape: Part IIWhen we last talked about the changing landscape of the Church, we talked about how a lot of the things that mattered before really don't matter as much now to people. We should also consider that on some issues, there's been a genuine change of belief among people, and the benefits this could potentially have to traditionalists.When we talk about these changes, we aren't really talking Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-18545670989449381962021-08-31T19:58:00.003-04:002021-08-31T19:58:39.012-04:00A Traditionalism for the People: The Changing LandscapeWhether something must change is always a different question for how that change could take place. The former relies on necessity, the latter conditions. If, as I previously suggested, the John Paul II era of Catholicism (from his pontificate up until 2017) was ultimately a failed proposition, that does not mean it did not have a substantial impact on the layout of the Church, as wellKevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-12566241308910204802021-08-13T20:00:00.001-04:002021-08-13T20:00:11.349-04:00Traditionalism Must AdaptWhen I started pitching ideas for A Traditionalism for the People, I did so because I felt there is a unique opening in the Church today, an opening that traditionalists could exploit for their own benefit, and as a dose of sanity to an increasingly insane Church. However, in order to do that, we need to change the way we approach a lot of things. I do not think this requires a changeKevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-18341672107792503362021-08-10T19:01:00.004-04:002021-08-10T19:01:40.205-04:00A Traditionalism for the PeopleIn the wake of the Popes (initially unsuccessful) attempt at suppressing the Latin Mass, I've seen a lot of talk about how traditionalism needs to rethink itself, sometimes even reinvent itself. Some of this is useful and helpful. While we like to think of a Church that moves "in centuries, not years', the reality is that the landscape we inherit in 2021 is radially different than theKevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-38662450059365270432021-08-04T20:17:00.000-04:002021-08-04T20:17:02.362-04:00Traditionis Custodes: Now What?We're at the end of our series on building a narrative to understand Traditionis Custodes, and more importantly, the muted reaction of Bishops so far to the document. Outside of a Bishop in Puerto Rico, there really aren't a lot of cases of bishops enthusiastically using the document as it was clearly intended by the Pope: to suppress the Latin Mass. Even left leaning Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-7956634142672729102021-07-28T20:02:00.006-04:002021-07-28T20:02:59.015-04:00Traditionis Custodes and the Permanent RevolutionWe are almost two weeks into life after Pope Francis' motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which attempted to suppress the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. In the document I wish to briefly explain what it wanted to do, and why it wanted to do it, and, most importantly for our discussion, what was required to make it work.As mentioned before, you will hear a lot of gaslighting from Kevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.com0