In response to my post on traditional conservatism, Jeff Culbreath offers some reflections of his own: Tradition and Community. He brings up some good points, and I'm a bit too tired to add much now. I'll just say that the Catholic Church(es) in the United States are handicapped for various reasons - a Church that has a mostly immigrant heritage and whose life is shaped by the host cultures: excessive mobility and insufficient economic freedom, which contribute to the inability of lay people to cultivate strong parish communities. (Many are to blame for their own choice of lifestyle/priorities as well.)
One should attend to one's duties to one's clan, neighbors, community as long as one can without his salvation (and that of his family) being threatened. But if he is surrounded by those who refuse to give up grave sin, what can he do but separate himself from them? He must leave not only to save himself, but for the sake of giving some measure of protest.
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