A Traditionalist Roman Catholic is one who views the deposit of faith as transmitted through historical tradition rather than contemporary adaptation, prioritizing the Latin Rite and pre-conciliar spiritual disciplines. 

Traditionalist Catholics...

• Maintain pre-Vatican II practices such as women wearing headcoverings (veils or mantillas) in church, use traditional prayer books, regularly recite the Rosary, and observe traditional abstinance and fasting rules. 

• Prefer or exclusively attend the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) using the 1962 or earlier Roman Missal and feast day calendars. Traditionalist Catholics will travel significant distances and endure social ostracism to attend the TLM. 

• Understand the sacred significance of the priest celebrating ad orientem (towards the "east" facing the altar) rather than versus populum (towards the people), viewing the former as essential for emphasizing the sacrificial nature of the Mass. 

• Receive Holy Communion from a priest or deacon on the tongue kneeling.

• Support the minor orders as apprenticeship for priesthood.

• Believe the Second Vatican Council introduced unnecessary or damaging changes to liturgy and doctrine (Hermeneutic of Rupture), and seek a restoration of the Church's perennial tradition viewing modernist innovations and liberal social agendas with skepticism.