"Rad Trads" - an explanation.

So uber-blogger Mark Shea blogged a grea post [which word becomes the verb here?] today about Radical Tradionalists, or "Rad Trads": Mark Shea - "Rad Trads"

As a TRADDY or Traditionalist, I like to think of myself acting properly in terms of how I practice my faith, and relate it on this blog. I also know that for SOME I am not Traditionalist "enough" to really be considered a Traditionalsit; while others think of me being "too rigid" and Traditionalist and therefore closer to a "Rad Trad" than I actually am.

I don't always agree with Mr. Shea, but I feel that I agree with most of his post. The clincher for me is how he explains any "RADICAL" form of  "sub-culture" or "piety":  that once a sub-culture or piety reduces the ENTIRE CATHOLIC faith to itself and its own rules, there is a problem. I would agree.

So while I may prefer certain things, and even bemoan others, I do not think any one "movement" is wholly incorrect. Likewise, I think the Catholic Faith would be better served if more people acted with this this same set of principles. I know that for the most part this is more a creature of the Cathologosphere, but even as such it still does damage to the Faith at large because it pits brother against brother.

As a parting note, I do not want to suggest that we should not be free to be critical of those things which are contrary to the Catholic Faith or its teachings. Yet, we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. In other words we need to do our diligence in determining those things which we need to criticize and those that we need to praise - as well as those things we need to discard and keep.