But then, in 2018, it felt like everything blew up. It was an absolute avalanche of disturbing news coming from within the Church, most of it from Rome. Here are some of the major Church stories from that year:

• The St. John Cantius/Fr. Phillips scandal, which drove home for people that even the most trusted religious communities may be hiding skeletons.
• Seminary sex abuse was revealed in Lincoln, long-considered one of the best American dioceses, affirming this same realization.
• The ultimately futile, heart-wrenching battle to keep Alfie Evans alive, with conflicting messages coming out of the Church in response.
• Cardinal Schönborn, editor of the Catechism and once the “conservative” favorite for the papacy, said (and later walked back) that he thought “The question of ordination [of women] is a question which clearly can only be clarified by a council” and that it could not “be decided upon by a pope alone.”
• The pope ordered a change to the Catechism on the teaching concerning the death penalty, essentially placing what some theologians (and me along with them) believe is a heresy in a central teaching docuмent of the Church, and setting the stage for future doctrinal reversals.
• The pope tricked people into believing he opposed giving Holy Communion to Protestants, then revealed that he merely opposed the method used to implement it, not the practice itself.
• An Argentinian nun reminded us that we have a pope who actually advocates for the use of contraceptives in some circuмstances, a direct contradiction of infallible teaching.
• Pope Francis was reported yet again to have denied the existence of Hell.
• The first rumors about the Amazon Synod’s attack on celibacy and the priesthood emerged, concerning Catholics the world over.
• Ireland, a nation formerly known for its overt Catholicism, voted overwhelmingly to repeal its anti-abortion law.
• The Vatican signed its Beijing agreement, allowing the Communist Chinese government to name Catholic bishops.
• And of course, Archbishop Viganòs revelations about the McCarrick coverup at the highest echelons of the Church were released.

With all of that going on, it all started to become too much, and I was burning out fast. The dubia effort was in its last gasps, and the promised formal correction started to look like vaporware. It felt as though the faithful were enduring one hammer blow after another, each one seemingly more outrageous than the last. I tried to write about all that was happening with a sense of hope that God would put a stop to it all soon. Surely, I kept thinking, the pope would take a step too far, and God would at last assert His protection of the Church.

I was forced to wait a year to have my toddler baptized. If I had walked away out of pride and anger the outcome would have been devastating.

No, it's just semantics. "Trad" is a frequently used abbreviation for "Traditional Catholic".

Thanks for the update.  He really appears to have gone off the deep end.  Does he still (evidently hypocritically) still run OnePeterFive?

I found his initial complaint to have been rather petty.  He got massively bent out of shape.  I do think the priest did not act charitably toward him, but he WAAAY overreacted to it.  Go find another priest.

I would call them something else. Jerk? A-hole? Hypocrite? Socially Retarded? Autist? Not simply "trad". Why does a random jerk get called a "trad" anyhow? What is trad short for in their case?

There is a difference between a traditional  Catholic and a trad.

Trad is fewer words than "hypocrital and narcissistic traditional Catholic who believes nobody is saved but themselves and actively seeks to drive others away from the true Catholic Church".