People at war with their traditions are ever slaves of the ever passing and ever changing present.
Tradition
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It amazes me to see how so many, otherwise brilliant men, seem to assume that newer is better and older is to be frowned upon. What empty lives they must have.
Chesterton’s Fence is a very good safeguard; if you can’t explain why a thing is there– and “they are dummies who hate me” isn’t an explanation– you need to be very, very careful about pulling it down.
Every generation seems to think they were the first ones to invent the wheel.
In the Sacrament of Reconciliation every penitent must promise to avoid the near occasion of sin. If the new traditions are sinful “We, the people” must work at avoiding the near occasion of that sin.