The shared center — held across the tradition
The Tridentine Mass is the Mass.
Latin, ad orientem, the canon whispered: the rite of centuries is not one option among many but the standard the new rite must answer to.
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Tradition judges the Council.
Vatican II must be read through what the Church always taught — and where it cannot be, tradition wins.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
The See of Peter may be vacant.
Sedevacantism, held by the movement's far edge and refused by most of it: a pope who teaches error may be no pope at all.
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