tradcath

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

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

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, 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 December, Mariel Hope Cooksey, The Alt-Right and Christianity‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 December 2021, 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 […]

     thesis submitted to the University of Virginia

   • 2021 December, 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”, in Laws‎^[2], volume 2, number 4:

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

   • 2025 March 21, Katie J. M. Baker, “The Conservative Women’s Magazine With Big Ambitions, and Sex Tips for Wives”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     She [Brittany Hugoboom] was raised Catholic by parents who often moved around the country because of her father’s job in banking, and said she became a “tradcath,” a trendy term for Traditionalist Catholic, around a decade ago.

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^[4], 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 December, Mariel Hope Cooksey, The Alt-Right and Christianity‎^[5], archived from the original on 4 December 2021, 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 […]

     thesis submitted to the University of Virginia

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