tradcath

English

Etymology

From trad (“traditional”) +‎ Cath(olic).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtrædˌkæθ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtrædˌkæθ/
• Rhymes: -æθ

Noun

tradcath (plural tradcaths)

1. (chiefly Internet slang) A Catholic who seeks to change the practices of Catholicism back to the norms of before the Second Vatican Council.
   • 2019, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason‎^[1], page 115:

     Chesterton was Edwardian England's most eloquent advocate for distributism, a Catholic social and economic system that contemporary TradCaths embrace, more (skepticism of big-government socialism) or less (actually distributing anything to anyone).

   • 2020, Mariel Hope Cooksey, "The Alt-Right and Christianity", thesis submitted to the University of Virginia, page 32:

     Overlapping with groups within the ‘Manosphere’, tradcaths use fundamentalist Christianity as a vehicle to spread and legitimize their gospel of traditional family values […]

   • 2021, David Hoa Khoa Nguyen, Jeremy F. Price, & Duaa H. Alwan, "The Influence of Christian Nationalism on U.S. Public Educators' Speech: Implications from Meriwether vs. Hartop", Laws, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2021:

     This group is comprised of networks—such as Catholic identifying Groypers and TradCaths […]

Adjective

tradcath (comparative more tradcath, superlative most tradcath)

1. Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to traditionalist, conservative Catholicism.
   • 2014 June, Fr. Martyn Neale, “Looking to the Future”, in Forward in Faith Guildford:

     But there are not enough ‘TradCath’ priests to serve all the parishes who want us, leaving churches and people vulnerable to takeover by ‘Affirming’ clergy or pastoral reorganisation into liberal teams.

   • 2019, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason‎^[2], page 154:

     In fact, the TradCath Weirdo is so obsessed with fecundity and nonprocreating marriages that he represents the only type of contemporary white person that actively hates dogs.

   • 2020, Mariel Hope Cooksey, "The Alt-Right and Christianity", thesis submitted to the University of Virginia, page 32:

     Sharing little in common with a true traditionalist stance of Catholicism, the tradcath movement within the Groyper Army is more akin to heavily meme-ified, internet-based understanding of Francoist Catholic fascism […]

See also

• sedevacantism (claiming that none of the Popes since the death of Pope Pius XII are legitimate due to modernist beliefs)