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“Pope Francis’ remarks are yet another sign of his anxiety over the traditional direction in which young Catholics are carrying the Church....Across much of the Catholic world, young traditionalists are competing against old progressives. Ironies abound, as youths who revere the venerable face off against elders who chase the up-to-date, and progressives who fear the future battle with traditionalists who loathe their immediate forebears.” [b]~ Matthew Schmitz[/b], in [b][i]“The Kids Are Old Rite”[/i][/b] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2xgX8rq[/c]
this is actually a very interesting article. in particular:

[quote]many young catholics feel that they have been denied an inheritance that was rightly theirs. they have had to reassemble piecemeal something that should have been handed to them intact. [/quote]

i am thinking of a late-teens me in the deep south in the mid 80's. newly away from home. trying to engage in the faith of my upbringing but encountering something that was entirely unintelligible to me, and quite honestly, openly hostile.

love the picture. reminds me of my childhood.
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
didn't the pope's emissary to washington DC just assert diplomatic immunity and return to the vatican when he was caught with child porn? is he an "old progressive", or a "young traditionalist"?
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SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@CoxswainOtter try "vatican recalls priest from DC". It was reported 6 days ago by NPR
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@SusanInFlorida "Pope" Francis is the leader of the leftist/progressive movement in the Catholic Church. The "child sex scandals" are themselves symptomatic of the liberalization of the Church since V.II, the very thing traditionalists and sedevacantists like myself are virulently against. The report you cite which indeed is factual supports the contention upon which this Story is based.
DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M
I Has MoREZ TiTters FoLLOWers TahN FrANNiE
Cierzo · M
Unfortunately I don't see that in my country, where most young people live away from the Church, but I had read that in France it is so, and I can understand why, young people react against those who consider traitor, and this 'Pope' is exactly that.
SW-User
Any organization that protects child molesters should be disbanded
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@SW-User The people who have been most critical (with the exception of the Left who just sees it as an opportunity to destroy or at least marginalize the Church) of the culture within the Church which caused the child abuse (it was actually almost exclusively ephebophilia -- the attraction of certain homosexual men for adolescent boys) and cover up are traditionalists, of which this article is about.
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