This is a depressing piece, very depressing, because what it means is that the Traditional Catholics are a tiny minority, overshadowed by the cafeteria Catholic bishops, joined at the hip deacons, and their minions.
No thanks.
"This is a depressing piece, very depressing, because what it means is that the Traditional Catholics are a tiny minority, overshadowed by the cafeteria Catholic bishops, joined at the hip deacons, and their minions."
Where do you get that from? Most young priests I know are very conservative compared to the Baby Boom priests of the Viet-Nam draft-dodger era.
Priests who went to seminaries in the 1950s and 1960s are the liberals. Priests since then fall squarely in two categories: Poofters and conservatives. It seems like it's conservatives whose numbers are growing, however.
Only in the minds of a Raddie-Traddie would the increased membership in the Church be greeted as something negative.