Following his recent anathematizing of “sedevacantists” at the Catholic Identity Conference (CIC), Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has republished an article on Rorate Cæli this week rebuking Traditionalists who have done nothing more than defend the Catholic faith while Leo XIV relentlessly attacks it. “The cottage industry of ‘naysayers,’ self-appointed spokesmen for tradition, who seem to have nothing to do all day but complain about or find fault with Pope Leo XIV … squander the energies and weaken the reputation of the traditionalist movement,” Kwasniewski argued without naming names. “These doomsday writers regularly turn against other trads just as frequently as they turn against conservatives and progressives.” At this point, it is clear that Dr. Kwasniewski — who himself repeatedly “found fault” with Francis — is the gatekeeper par excellence for the neo-trad establishment, despite lip-service to the contrary. While conceding that the article he reprinted “overstates its case,” Kwasniewski claimed on X that its criticisms apply to a “small yet noisy online subset” of traditionalists.

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