The Catholic Trumpet: Mere Tradition or Mere Compromise?

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Mere Tradition or Mere Compromise?

The Catholic Trumpet | March 4, 2025

In his latest video on Kennedy Hall’s channel, titled “Are Catholics ‘Cannibals’? Does the SSPX ‘Make it Up?’”, he advises men who have embraced Tradition to drive their wives to the Novus Ordo as a “compromise.”

At 8:41, he explicitly states:

“Obviously, I don’t go to the Novus Ordo, I don’t recommend it. But we are in this crazy crisis in the Church, in this mysterious time where we have basically two religions operating, and it’s very hard to understand, and people are kind of stuck in the crosshairs.

And so doing our best to try to have a little bit of grace and compromise, not on the principles that are necessary, but let’s say compromise like, you know, hey, if there’s a, you know, a traditional mass available at 7:30, and you go to that one early in the morning, and your wife doesn’t want to go, it’s like you can drive her to the Novus Ordo and just sort of be there and don’t go receive communion if, you know, that sort of thing, because you’ve already gone to mass, but you’re kind of supporting her. There are things like that, if that makes sense. And I think a little bit of understanding will help go a long way.”

This is not leadership—it is surrender.

Would you drive your wife to a Protestant service? A Jehovah’s Witness hall? A Masonic lodge?

No? Then why facilitate a Mass that +Archbishop Lefebvre condemned as a poisoned rite designed to erode the Faith?

“This new Mass… is impregnated with the spirit of Protestantism. It bears within it a poison harmful to the Faith.”

- (Archbishop Lefebvre, Letter to Friends & Benefactors, Sept. 1975)

Lefebvre never said to “compromise a little” for the sake of “understanding.” He stood against modernism completely. This is not “prudence”—this is capitulation.

Even Bishop Fellay, in an older interview, admits:

“When it goes about us, we begin to be like a… I don’t know, something like a sign of contradiction.”

No. Not a “sign of contradiction.” A sign of compromise.

The Neo-SSPX and conciliar church are two sides of the same compromise—one enables the New Mass directly, the other indirectly under false “prudence.”

There Is No Middle Ground

A Catholic husband leads his wife to truth. He does not chauffeur her to error.

Men of Tradition: We do not negotiate with error. We do not make peace with a lie. We reject modernism entirely.

The choice is clear: Stand with Tradition or betray it.

Compromise is not Tradition.