re: #198 wlewisiii

Walter,

I know the definition. They believe The Fundamentals. They also identify as Roman Catholic and claim to fully believe what they were the Baltimore Catechism. Sorry that bothers you.

William

The Fundamentals are a distinctly Protestant product. If you know of Roman Catholics who accept them, you know some very confused Roman Catholics.

Also, I’ve never heard the term “fundamentalist” used by or to refer to Catholics, except as an error. The closest analogue within the Catholic church would be one of the Traditionalist movements, but there is no connection to the Protestant Fundamentals or to any other fundamentalist movement, and the term is not used by the Catholic church itself, largely because it simply isn’t accurate. Wrong faith, and even if granted an extension to a wider realm of interpretation Traditionalism is foundationally different from Fundamentalism.

Walter is quite correct in pointing out that the use of the term for Catholics is, at best, a sloppy use of language that ought to be avoided.