[narses]

WHat I've seen is more complex. In some places the young are flocking to the Church. If they are given a sense of the sacred, of something Holy, they come. The more orthodox the Diocese, the more the young respond. Among the young priests I know, conservative orthodoxy is the rule.

[ultima ratio]

Unfortunately the American Church is predominantly liberal in its prelature. Even so-called "conservative" bishops and cardinals are left of center. It is true orthodoxy prospers in almost direct proportion to the decline of heterodoxy. But the bishops pay no notice and refuse to change their commitments to the liberal agenda. And while it's true the Catholic Church has not OFFICIALLY changed its doctrines, in practice it has changed radically. Divorce is not sanctioned in the Church, for instance, but annulments ("Catholic divorces") have soared, especially in the US. So in addition to being less orthodox, the Catholic Church in America is also far less honest about what it believes and what it teaches than it ever was before Vatican II.