[dennisw]

So true. We should take a long hard look at ourselves. What became of the Catholic strictness and seriousness of my youth? And I was only an observer since I was (am) Jewish. Arch Bishop Malloy/ I heard about that school all the time on the handball courts. At the same high school Michael Savage went to ten years before

[Aquinasfan]

So true. We should take a long hard look at ourselves. What became of the Catholic strictness and seriousness of my youth?

It exists to varying degrees in various parts of the world. It's a big church. But the situation in our country has certainly deteriorated since the '60s.

Vatican II was wildly misinterpreted, often deliberately, by the '60s generation. The movement finally seems to have begun dissipating.