Back in the 90s and early 2000s the classic proof for the cure to the so-called vocation crisis in the church was seen in comparing the liturgy between two side by side dioceses in the Midwest …Omaha and Lincoln Nebraska. Omaha had (has) more than a quarter million Catholics while Lincoln had about 70k. Typically there were about 25 seminarians in formation for Lincoln and 15 for Omaha. Lincoln was infamous for not allowing altar girls while promoting Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling. That’s about one future priest for every 18,000 Catholics in Omaha vs one for every 3,000 in Lincoln. The holy tradition of reverence for His Body and Blood bears much more fruit.
I lived in Orange County in the late 80s. Landing at John Wayne and seeing his bronze statue in the airport coupled with trips to SD watching the Marines drill on the shores of the Pacific on the way to see my sister along “the 5” made one feel this was the land of the free and home of the brave. I visited with my young family back in ‘07 and when we went to LA my wife was struck by the increased congestion and lack of English speakers. I’ll never go back.
Not true. The Tridentine Mass which was visited by Pope Saint Pius the V was for the most part the same as Saint Gregory the Greats of the fifth century. He was far from a modernist.
Spiritual creatures long for mystery, beauty, reverence, awe, sacred, holy, goodness, divine…. Not profane, man-centered nonsense. The me centered, hippie generation novus order is in its death throes. That’s why spineless Judas bishops are in such a desperate frenzy to attack the true worship of God.
The eternal cannot be destroyed.
“With regard to teaching, increasingly, colleges are not challenging students or preparing them importantly for the “real world.” Data on student time use suggest that the average student today spends perhaps 25 hour on academics (class attendance, reading, writing papers, et cetera) each week, for perhaps 32 weeks a year—800 hours total—while parents are each typically working perhaps 1,800 hours annually to help fund the expensive education.“
Students and the parents who send their children off to get indoctrinated by Marxists don’t live in the real world. They live in a virtual world where eyeball to eyeball human contact and interaction is all but a thing of the past.
“Increasing consequences…” Let’s hope its severe enough to be an effective deterrent. If someone did that to my daughter I’d want substantial jail time and substantial fines for the perpetrator at a minimum. It’s a very insidious and evil thing to do a person. The punishment must fit the crime.