Thursday, November 10, 2011

What's a neoCatholic?

Hilary explains in a note she wrote to someone in the Catholic media:

You are using the term "neocatholic" incorrectly and it will cause a lot of confusion. The definition, because it is a term more or less invented and used by Traditionalist Catholic bloggers, is somewhat ambiguous, but it is most decidedly NOT synoymous with the kind of "liberal" Catholics to whom you are applying it in your latest piece.

As the term is used on the internet (by people leveling it [me] and by those denying it applies to them [Mark Shea]) it refers to a "conservative" Catholic, often an American convert from evangelical protestantism, who adheres generally to and likes to make a show of defending the sexual moral teachings of the Church but is generally satisfied with the direction taken by the modern Church and the modern world.
Whoops. I'm a Traditional Anglican, but I would suspect I have not a little neoCatholic about me.
I tend to be traditional but not traditionalist.

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