"If they are RC HOCNAites"...
Hmm. I think that might be an apt comparison.
These guys are generally of the "
Wouldn't it be nice if the Pope were as Catholic as us" variety. Althought it opens up a can of worms in internet circles that can go on for days/weeks/months/years... Many of us are in agreement: they go beyond canonical impediment of being merely an unrecognized group, to achieve the status of having taken on a distinctive world view.
Originial preteneses of just trying to keep old ritual traditions alive don't seem to hold up in light of the freedoms recently accorded to those in the Latin world with aspirations and attachments to older forms. They have roundly rejected and rebuffed overtures to "come in from the cold" because they have set themselves up with polemics leading one to conclude they are the last of the "Real Catholics"...
