Protestants who swim the tiber and adopt a Traditionalist form of Catholicism are inconsistent and worse off than when they embraced sola scriptura, especially when they actively rebel against Rome by disregarding all its current developments. If you truly were convinced of the need for a living Magisterium, you would readily submit to it and be content with your local Novus Ordo priest, abolishment of the death penalty, and theistic evolution, not cope by saying you’re only going to submit to what the Church has definitively taught.
Vatican II literally teaches in Lumen Gentium that all Catholics are bound not only to definitive and infallible teachings, but they owe the Pope’s non-infallible statements a religious assent of mind and will. You’re no better than a Protestant if you’re going to larp in a TLM or cry about modernism or whatever. Submit to Rome means Submit to Rome, not cherry pick non dogmatic teachings you agree with.
“Among the principal duties of bishops the preaching of the Gospel occupies an eminent place.(39*) For bishops are preachers of the faith, who lead new disciples to Christ, and they are authentic teachers, that is, teachers endowed with the authority of Christ, who preach to the people committed to them the faith they must believe and put into practice, and by the light of the Holy Spirit illustrate that faith. They bring forth from the treasury of Revelation new things and old,(164) making it bear fruit and vigilantly warding off any errors that threaten their flock.(165) Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent. This religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic magisterium of the Roman Pontiff, even when he is not speaking ex cathedra; that is, it must be shown in such a way that his supreme magisterium is acknowledged with reverence, the judgments made by him are sincerely adhered to, according to his manifest mind and will. His mind and will in the matter may be known either from the character of the documents, from his frequent repetition of the same doctrine, or from his manner of speaking.”
Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium #25
This is why I don’t see Protestant converts to
a traditional form of Roman Catholicism any more than larpers.
You will embrace the liturgical reforms of Vatican II
You will go to papal clown mass
You will work for the abolishment of the death penalty worldwide
And you will be happy.
