They got a lot more vocal under him, but tradcaths have existed everywhere since Vatican II. I can't say they were very online during the Benedict XVI years but I imagine there probably was less of a reason to be vocally reactionary when that was already kinda the hegemonic position.
It's older than that. But under JPII and Benedict, the traditionals were mostly aligned with church leadership and not very vocal. Benedict wanted to fully bring them back into the fold of catholic mainstream, and that basically created the phenomenon because it meant that they got a lot of attention and were able to recruit/get into important bishop positions. Benedict chose bishops mainly based on their views on sexual morals, which empowered the traditionalists even more.
The biggest push in public definitely happened under Francis when more traditionally oriented mainstreamers switched to "oh, I'm a trad-cath".
Am I misremembering, or hasn't the entire online trad-cath phenomenon been happening under Francis?
They got a lot more vocal under him, but tradcaths have existed everywhere since Vatican II. I can't say they were very online during the Benedict XVI years but I imagine there probably was less of a reason to be vocally reactionary when that was already kinda the hegemonic position.
It's older than that. But under JPII and Benedict, the traditionals were mostly aligned with church leadership and not very vocal. Benedict wanted to fully bring them back into the fold of catholic mainstream, and that basically created the phenomenon because it meant that they got a lot of attention and were able to recruit/get into important bishop positions. Benedict chose bishops mainly based on their views on sexual morals, which empowered the traditionalists even more.
The biggest push in public definitely happened under Francis when more traditionally oriented mainstreamers switched to "oh, I'm a trad-cath".
pretty much, but also segments of american catholicism have taken issue with the papacy since Vatican 2