How To Tell If You Are Trad Inc.

When the Deposit of Faith meets direct deposit, the only thing getting canceled is your courage.

A lot of people are wondering how to tell if somebody is Trad Inc. As a public service, I have decided to present a series of questions so people can determine for themselves who is and is not Trad Inc. If you, dear reader, can think of any further questions to assist please leave them in the comments. God bless.

You Might Be Trad Inc. If…

If you think it’s a win that Leo only appointed five bishops who support women’s ordination this month, you might be Trad Inc.

If you’ve published 10 articles on Francis lying about Traditionis Custodes, but not one on Leo smiling in a White Sox hat as the TLM is banned, you might be Trad Inc.

If two months in, you are still not sure what to think about Leo XIV, after condemning Francis as soon as he was elected, you might be Trad Inc.

If you think Leo saying Mass ad orientem is a sign of hope, but fail to mention Francis did the same thing, you might be Trad Inc.

If you watch the LifeSite board stage a coup to oust John Henry-Westen for being too Trad Catholic, and say, “Well, they had to make money,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you made YouTube videos warning of Prevost as one of the worst case scenarios before the conclave, and 24 hours later you are praising him as a refreshing change, you might be Trad. Inc.

If you mock sedevacantists as outside the Church while keeping reverent silence as Leo praises a schismatic as a saint, you might be Trad Inc.

If you lecture Trads that Leo is going to revoke Traditionis Custodes, he just likes to take his time to make decisions, you might be Trad Inc.

If you write articles praising Leo for dressing like a pope and chanting Latin while ignoring him telling new priests to say “for all” in the consecration, you might be Trad Inc.

If you have made a living criticizing Vatican II, Paul VI, JPII, Benedict, and Francis, but now tell people they need to give Leo a chance, you might be Trad Inc.

If your podcast opens with a Gregorian chant and closes with a pitch for your Patreon tier called “Doctor of the Church,” you might be Trad Inc.

If your idea of Catholic masculinity is puffing cigars and drinking bourbon while referring to the Latin Mass as a sexy woman, you might be Trad Inc.

If you propose people love their Novus Ordo if they can’t find a TLM as you flee your Novus Ordo to go to the Eastern Rite, you might be Trad Inc.

If you bashed synodality for 10 years under Francis and now tell us Leo understands it differently and we need to be nuanced, you might be Trad Inc.

If you criticize Opus Dei on Monday and network with their donor class by Friday, you might be Trad Inc.

If you railed on Francis cutting a deal with the CCP but haven’t said a word as Leo continues to sell out Chinese Catholics you might be Trad Inc.

If you only tweet boldly about Vatican scandals after someone else does it first and you’ve checked your speaking calendar, you might be Trad Inc.

If you think fighting for Tradition is the hill to die on…until you saw the wine list in Rome, you might be Trad Inc.

If you warned us Francis would destroy the faith, but now say Leo’s “tone” is refreshing, you might be Trad Inc.

If you said Francis was a tyrant for restricting the Latin Mass but say Leo is “prudently guiding the Church,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you used to quote Archbishop Lefebvre but now sound like Austen Ivereigh, you might be Trad Inc.

If you think Leo’s episcopal appointments are “not ideal, but understandable in context,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you spent a decade crying “diabolical disorientation” and now call it “Petrine balance,” you might be Trad Inc.

If your hot take on a bishop who affirms gender ideology is “well, he used to work with Courage,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you’ve ever said “prudential silence” when you meant “I like being invited to Rome,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you mocked Michael Voris as a hypocrite for criticizing every aspect of the Church except Francis and now you are doing the exact same thing, you might be Trad Inc.

If you say the modernist crisis continues, but also call this pontificate a “Francis reset,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you say “the Holy Spirit gave us Leo” and somehow don’t mean that sarcastically, you might be Trad Inc.

If you think Leo XIV is the solution to the crisis he’s actively perpetuating, you might be Trad Inc.

If you used to say “we must resist error no matter the cost” but now say “let’s see how this synod plays out,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you warned Francis would crush the TLM but think Leo’s just “discerning how to implement unity,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you went to war against Fiducia Supplicans under Francis, but you haven’t said a word since Leo reaffirmed it, you might be Trad Inc.

If you were ready to get excommunicated under Francis but now won’t risk a blog post under Leo, you might be Trad Inc.

If you think synodality is a Trojan horse unless Leo’s driving it, in which case it’s “prudent 4D Chess,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you say “we shouldn’t rush to judgment” about a pope who appointed women with authority over clergy you might be Trad Inc.

If you once wrote a scathing column titled Francis the Destroyer and now write Leo the Listener, you might be Trad Inc.

If you believe Leo is restoring orthodoxy by continuing the exact policies of Francis, you might be Trad Inc.

If your private group chats are full of panic but your public feed is all “Fraternal Trust in Peter™,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you think Cardinal Burke cut a deal to make Leo pope, and you think that is a good thing, you might be Trad Inc.

If you praise Cardinal Burke for speaking out against the apostasy while praising Leo as he causes it, you might be Trad Inc.

If you praise Cardinal Mueller as a stalwart friend of Tradition while completely ignoring the fact he denied three dogmas and said the SSPX is in schism, you might be Trad Inc.

If your plan for Church renewal is to ignore Leo’s scandals while wearing cufflinks & increasing revenue stream, you might be Trad Inc.

If you told everyone for years that Rome had lost the faith, but now say “we must trust the Holy Spirit,” you might be Trad Inc.

If you handed your book Infiltration to Francis but think it would be improper to hand it to Leo, you might be Trad Inc.

If your theology shifts depending on who is bankrolling your next conference, you might be Trad Inc.

If you rail against prosperity gospel preachers while monetizing docility, you might be Trad Inc.

If you know deep down Leo is Francis in a nicer cassock, but it’s just not “financially strategic” to say that out loud, you might be Trad Inc.

If you criticized Francis for over a decade but then preach under Leo that the natural predisposition of a Catholic must be of docility toward the Roman See, you might be Trad Inc.

I hope this helps.