Is The Pope Catholic? A Journey through the Strange World of Radical Traditionalism

For millions of people, the Catholic Church is the embodiment of the Christian religious tradition. But for a vocal, colorful, often eccentric group of disaffected believers, the Catholic Church has gone dangerously off the rails, transforming itself into something unrecognizable—even heretical.

Tom Breen, a longtime religion journalist, describes this little-known but active underworld of “radtrad” believers in this winsome, wry account. He also details his own journey from skepticism ab…