[Destro]

The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy by Colleen Carroll List Price: $19.95 / Amazon Price: $13.97

From Library Journal With the help of a Phillips Journalism Fellowship, St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Carroll traveled the country to interview young adults to ascertain how religion fits into their lives. Most of her interviewees were Catholics or evangelical Protestants, along with some Orthodox Christians. Carroll found a turn to the Right in the religious lives of her peers, born between 1965 and 1983; not everyone in this age group is religiously oriented, but those who are have more often than not turned to traditional beliefs and morality. Among Catholic priests, for example, the youngest are as traditional as the oldest, with the baby boomers falling in between. It is not unusual for married couples in this age group to embrace natural family planning as opposed to artificial birth control and for singles to reject premarital sex. These young adults are seeking authoritative guidelines and meaningful commitments. Carroll's journalistic skills are evident in this very readable volume about a tendency toward traditionalism that she predicts will spread. Highly recommended. John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ. Lib., New York Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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[LiteKeeper]

bump

[Loyalist]

Pingus ad orcae schismaticae et bumpus ad summum.

[Destro]

bump around please

[St.Chuck]

There are many young Catholics today who share a concern for the ecclesial identity, moral clarity, evangelization and transformation of culture that Carroll describes, but who also recognize the need for the renewal of ecclesial structures and for the exercise of authority in a more inclusive way.

Yeah, whatever. It sounds like Fr. Rausch isn't comfortable with young people rejecting his program.

[Salvation]

These both look like excellent books.

[Salvation]

These both look like excellent books.

[nickcarraway]

this may be “due to the fact that the ‘new faithful’ have found a more welcoming embrace from the right arm of the church than from the left.”

Is this an admission of guilt on the part of the NCReporter? Even in this article, this sentence applies to them.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Simple - why settle for a watered down fraud?

[TradicalRC]

The way is indeed narrow. At 39, I am the youngest member on the Liturgy commission at my church. I stand on the cusp between two generations. While I can understand the younger generation's quest for authenticity, I cannot understand the older generation's fascination with novelty. They seem happiest when denigrating tradition and seem oblivious to the fact that this undermines their own authority. For now, however, they are running the show and I have resigned myself to being marginalized. I hope and pray for a restoration of the sacred and the beautiful. The good and the true.

[Unam Sanctam]

Carroll’s narrow construal of orthodoxy is regrettable, as it risks freezing the tradition in a moment of time, namely the recent past, rather than recognizing that the great tradition is a living tradition that often reshapes its practice, theological language and life as it continues to reflect on the mystery from which it lives.

It is precisely the liberal "Spirit of Vatican II" crowd that wants to deny the rich and full tradition, believing that Vatican II created a new religion and that all before was benighted darkness.