[traditionalist]

Yes. Precisely because they're inessential, one should always question whether they get in the way of true worship or belief or, in the worst, case, begin assuming an intrinsically traditional role in the minds of some people.

I appreciate your candor. Your position is exactly that which traditionalists ascribe to neoCatholics.

Now, if you please, would you care citing a Doctor or Father of the Church who shared this characteristicly neoCatholic disposition?

[sinkspur]

Now, if you please, would you care citing a Doctor or Father of the Church who shared this characteristicly neoCatholic disposition?

Maybe you ought to define what you mean by extrinsic tradition. I take it to mean trappings, and customs, and the like which have no real bearing on doctrine.

What do you take it to mean?