[Bainbridge]

*I live near a very traditional parish high mass, excellent choir, very prosperous.
I know of many Roman Catholic who travel past 5 or 6 other RC churches to attend.
No matter what kind of intellectual gymnastic you perform, this is in fact quite similar to the tendency to follow the man not the institution that you all find so offensive in other Christians.
Ron Dreher manifests a conceit in his snobbish attitude. The article in the Washington Post showed a sort of Martha Stewart demand for the "best of everything": ambiance, literature, elegance, wonderful high brow music. Frankly, his Christianity smacked of a rather superior(unChristlike) attitude in my opinion.

[Tax-chick]

No matter what kind of intellectual gymnastic you perform, this is in fact quite similar to the tendency to follow the man not the institution that you all find so offensive in other Christians.

I'm not sure whom you're addressing as "you all," and I can't be offended at "the tendency to follow the man not the institution," because I don't know what you're talking about.

That said, my family's practice has always been to attend the closest Catholic church. The only time we would not do this would be if there were serious problems with doctrine; sometimes one just gets a moonbat priest.

I also found Rod Dreher's "CrunchyCon" stuff to be an aesthetic pose, rather than real ideas. However, that might just be farm-kid reverse-snobbery on my part :-).