Is the Catholic Church a "Tradition"?

urPewsitter.com posted an interesting article that needs closer examination.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/11/ryan-as-vp-pick-continues-election-year-focus-on-catholicism/
At first you think, ""hey cool article, I didn't know Ryan was a Catholic". Then you see it. The stripping of 2000 years of religious heritage, ripped completely away like so much chaff in the wind.
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Washington (CNN) - Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate promises to cast a spotlight on American Catholicism in an election year when the tradition has already been a major focus.
Tradition????? Really????? Catholicism is now classified along with Mistle Toe and White Shoes after Easter?????
This is a dangerous attack from obama's minions as a degradation from bona fide Religion to just a fun loving traditions will completely strip the Church of it's morale high ground and could force along with losing the Constitutional Protection afforded the Church. This type of attack is insidious and disastrous in the depth and breadth of it's implications. General acceptance of this slander means the total crash of the Church, and not just the Catholics. This demotion takes the Church from the heavens and drags it to the mud as just another fad that comes and goes, not the presence of God on earth as it really is.
Along with all the other problems the Church must deal with, unknowing or uncaring journalism is added to the list. I think pewsitter should also be careful as to the links they backhandedly approve by linking to the enemy. We need to be careful, the future of the Church depends on it.
Pirate Morgan,
the Conservative Your Mother Warned You About