[Domestic Church]

This is the viewpoint of those born a long long time ago who saw their perspective lose the battle and then saw no incremental approach, just overnight change.

[american colleen]

True, I hadn't thought of it like that at all. She would have a different viewpoint than a post Vat II Catholic (like me, born in 1959).

For some years I was a "non-practicing" Catholic. Each time I attended Church it seemed like there was a new change and/or practice. Taken in total, I still sometimes feel like I am attending a different Church altogether. Not better or worse, just different.

[ultima ratio]

Lost the battle? You don't follow the news. The traditionalists are growing by leaps and bounds--and they are mostly comprised of the young. They have no vocation shortage and the men entering their priesthood are in the prime of life. It is the liberal Amchurch that is dying. It simply cannot reproduce itself and is comprised of a rapidly aging clergy.