CV NEWSFEED // A conference hosted by a support group for those in “recovery” from varying forms of “traditionalist” Catholicism is receiving mixed reviews on social media.
Trad Recovery is an online community founded by Youtuber Laura Vander Vos to provide aid to former “traditionalist” Catholics “seeking full integration into the Catholic Church.” The group will host a “Catholics in Communion Conference” in July 2024 in southwestern Montana, which is anticipated to feature a speaker series pending Diocesan approval.
The group defines Traditionalism on its website as “an ideology that includes rejection of or suspicion of the entirety or parts of the Magisterium from the Second Vatican Council up to the present day, as well as the reform of the Roman Rite.”
While news of the conference resulted in a wave of indignant reactions from Latin Mass Catholics on social media, Janet E. Smith’s response published in Crisis Magazine assumed the most prominent place among them.
“If Catholics want to hold a conference for Catholics who have been wounded by the modern Church, they will likely need a huge venue,” Smith wrote, declaring that the conference which will take place at a small venue in Montana ought to “shame” the “conservatives and trads” into hosting a counter-conference for those afflicted by the Church since Vatican II.
“It will require renting out sports arenas in multiple metro areas to accommodate a mere fraction of the wounded,” she stated, pointing out that “millions have left the Church since the sixties, and millions of those who remain are exceedingly unhappy with much of what is happening in the Church.”
In her satirical response to the conference, Smith proposes themed “breakout sessions” for traumatized “trads,” such as “How to avoid going to hell,” and “therapeutic activities” such as “a fire pit into which participants can toss ‘song’ books, banners, screens used to project lyrics, the book Heal Me With Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing, and copies of the National Catholic Reporter.”
“Stay tuned,” she concluded, “Organizers are just getting started and will undoubtedly have more ideas on how to minister to those traumatized by the practices of the modern Church,” such as crock-wearing Eucharistic ministers and blessings of same-sex couples.
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