ChantCD said:It's part of the Hegelian dialectic:
Catholicism (thesis)
Modern world (antithesis)
Vatican II (synthesis)
then, we have
Catholicism, traditional (thesis)
Vatican II Catholicism (antithesis)
Neo-traditionalism (synthesis)
It's just another step.
I wrote a post about this, didn't put it up yet.
You understand the system very well, Matthew. Puzzling to me that you are in SSPX. The point of my post was that the synthesis is always a false conservatism allowed by the Modernists to make people think they are really conservative.
The Synthesis SEEMS Catholic but is usually relative morality. It is moral relative to the perverted modern world, but it still not Catholic.
I had this one about NFP:
Thesis: Catholic marriage is primarily for procreation, secondarily to pay the debt
Antithesis: Abortion and birth control are great goods for an overpopulated world
SYNTHESIS: The rhythm method is non-procreative but not anti-procreative
The Hegelian dialectic is fun!