Big T vs small t

[Godloves13]

Hi, Could you help me (I have looked at the old threads already).
What are specific big Tradition examples and has it in anytime in history that the Tradition has been changed. For example, previously the earth was considered “flat” but now we acknowledge that is it round/globe.
Please explain in layman and if possible don’t ask me to read a long detail article.

Thanks
Godloves13

 

[NHInsider]

Big “T” traditions - the most important example is the content of Scripture: absolutely essential to the faith, and not stated in the Bible. The faith entrusted to and handed on by the Apostles is the Tradition Paul refers to in I Cor. 11:2, 2 Thess. 2:15, and elsewhere.

Small “t” traditions - this is the way we use “tradition” in common English, to mean things we do as part of our culture, religious and secular. Covers everything from eating ham at Easter and singing Happy Birthday to various forms of popular devotion - processions with statues, Christmas decorations, etc.

A related subject would be that of Church disciplines. These are practices imposed by the Church which are not, strictly speaking, articles of faith. Having been imposed by the Church these can be changed by the Church, and there are numerous examples. Probably the best-known is priestly celibacy, which was established in Church law at the beginning of the second millennium. Others would be such things as the prohibition of eating meat on Friday (or Wednesday). Many of these have been in place for so long that they may seem to most of us to be articles of faith but they are in fact matters of discipline, so they could be changed if the Pope and bishops determined that it would be best for the Church.

 

[Godloves13]

Thank you for your response.

In this example, you are talking about small “t” traditions, am I correct?

"A related subject would be that of Church disciplines. These are practices imposed by the Church which are not, strictly speaking, articles of faith. Having been imposed by the Church these can be changed by the Church, and there are numerous examples. Probably the best-known is priestly celibacy, which was established in Church law at the beginning of the second millennium. Others would be such things as the prohibition of eating meat on Friday (or Wednesday). Many of these have been in place for so long that they may seem to most of us to be articles of faith but they are in fact matters of discipline, so they could be changed if the Pope and bishops determined that it would be best for the Church. "

So are there any Traditions that has been passed down as mentioned by the Apostles that the church could have “changed”? through the years?

Appreciate some clarifications.

Thank you

 

[NHInsider]

By definition the content of the faith (“big T”) cannot be changed. But under the authority and guidance of the Holy Spirit the Church applies the content of the faith to the circumstances of each place and time.

Here’s another example. For centuries Catholics were prohibited from cremating the dead, because it was considered to be a rejection of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body. Today we still believe in the resurrection of the body, but cremation is no longer prohibited. We are, however, required to treat the ashes of the deceased with the respect due to the body, which has been the temple of the Holy Spirit.

I would not consider church disciplines to be “small t” traditions, because they are (or were) official teaching of the Church, not simply rituals or practices that developed in particular times and places.