Neo-Catholic
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Neo-Catholicism may refer to:
- An intellectual movement in French Catholicism in the wake of the French revolution (early 19th century), see Frédéric Ozanam
- Mainstream Catholicism after Vatican I (1870) from the point of view of the Old Catholic Church
- A term used in some circles of American traditionalist Catholicism (since the 1990s)—coined in analogy to American political "neo-conservatism"—to refer to mainstream, so-called "conservative"/"orthodox" Catholics who, in spite of their professed conservatism, nevertheless embraced the changes in Catholic practice (e.g., the introduction of a new form of the Mass; a significant reduction in the number of days on which fasting is required; a downplaying of the supposed "triumphalism" which characterized the pre-Conciliar Church in favor of a more open approach to ecumenism and religious liberty) that followed the Second Vatican Council on the basis that said changes were merely disciplinary, not doctrinal, in nature. In essence, a neo-Catholic, while considering himself "conservative" and "orthodox", would be considered radically liberal by pre-Vatican II standards.
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