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By Robert Morrison, Remnant Columnist, The Remnant, October 24, 2023

“Living Tradition bobs along like a cork through the stream of evolving dogma. What a pleasant euphemism for the old heresy of dogmatic historicism.” (Fr. Dominique Bourmaud, One Hundred Years of Modernism)

Many Traditional Catholics have likely heard the concept of “living tradition” in connection with John Paul II’s rebuke of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in the July 2, 1988 apostolic letter, Ecclesia Dei:

“The root of this schismatic act can be discerned in an incomplete and contradictory notion of Tradition. Incomplete, because it does not take sufficiently into account the living character of Tradition . . .” ….

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