"There was an ossification of the Faith, a childish Catholicism that crumbled under the kleig lights of modern philosophy."
Don't you ever tire of speaking nonsense? It was not the Faith itself that was ossified. The article speaks of an ossified philosophic system that was incapable of communicating with the modern world. But the faith itself was strong. These practicioners of what you dare to call a "childish Catholicism" built great churches all over the western world; they developed school systems and universities; they ran hospitals; their young priests and nuns--tens of thousands in the prime of life--went off as missionaries to remote corners of the planet to feed the hungry and to tend the sick and to spread the Gospel, not seeing friends and family for decades at a time. They put modern Catholics to shame. All this was fueled by an army of lay people saying their rosaries and attending Mass with far more frequency than anything known today. It is today's Catholics who seem childish in comparison.
All this was fueled by an army of lay people saying their rosaries and attending Mass with far more frequency than anything known todayLay people saying the Rosary DURING Mass.
A comparison would be the Apostles over in a corner, muttering Jewish prayers during the Last Supper.
You can't stand that some Catholics, indeed the vast majority of Catholics prefer the Novus Ordo. I'm all for the wider availability of the Tridentine Mass, and I've never derided it, except its exclusion of participation.
But, you and I have been around this tree before.