"Young people are coming back to the church in droves"
HUH??????? What fantasy land are you dwelling in?
A peek in the door of the average NO Catholic church in the US will show a congregation made up of at least 40% senior citizens......in many cases a mugh higher percentage.
Most kids do not go to church (unless thier parents bring them - forcibly) after they are in high school.
":THere has certianly been change."
Oh yes.......a clergy whose numbers are homosexual in the majority, increasingly empty pews, diocesan seminaries closing for lack of interest (due to the first item), schools which are Catholic in name only - in which the faith is most assuradely not taught, male & female religious either leaving or becoming pagans, bare - ruined sanctuaries.........
The church is a headless thing - out of control, and imploding upon itself.
Well, actually I live in San Diego. The church we go to has lots of young people AND, they are reverent when they go to receive Holy COmmunion.
Not ALL young people are going to Mass. But more and more are going. They are going to the Churches which are more orthodox, as well.
Our children range in age from 15 - 22. Three are in college. One goes to Franciscan University. MOST of the students at Fanciscan go the Mass - daily.
Look for the good in the Church.
You don't have to close your eyes to the evil in the church because I realize that it is there. But, look for the good.