One of my favorite blogs, Eponymous Flower, has posted a translated article from Messa in Latino, which describes why trads are the best allies of Pope Francis. The article explains that the Pope has criticized self-centered Christianity and has also stressed the need to go out 'onto the streets of the world to proclaim the Gospel message.' Who, more than trads, have actually done what the Pope has said?
Though the article posts reasons why trads are the one's who are actually doing what the Pope has stressed, what the article doesn't mention is that the Gospel message that the Pope is speaking of isn't the same as what the Trads are proclaiming, IMO.
In any case, there are many good and true examples given of how traditionalists are the one's who are proclaiming the Catholic faith more than anyone else:
1) Who has "gone forth" more than the traditionalists from the dusty vestries to return to the celebration of Holy Mass in the catacombs? Has anyone more than they converted industrial buildings throughout the world into churches, chapels and garages in tenements into monasteries?
2) Who is more than they in keeping the faith, "going forth" into the streets without fearing anathemas of the bourgeois and the exhortations of the cowardly who disguise themselves as "conservatives?" These [conservatives] have hastened with Apostolic haste to lock the doors well-sealed to keep the traditionalists "beyond," to shield them from the herd so that no one could "infect" them indoors.
3) Who especially in France, but not only, still holds large public solemn processions and pilgrimages on foot on the public roads?
4) Who, despite the continued apathy of the shepherds, is still on the streets and squares of France to actively defend marriage and the Christian family, even at the cost of being arrested?
5) Who, if not the traditionalists, are consistent in their vocation, who have been denied for decades, brilliant careers in the Church, in chairs at Pontifical and Catholic Universities to secure positions in the Church editorial offices in the service of bishops and the Ordinariate?
There are more examples given in the article here:
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/