...Tim Drake has a new blog to celebrate his new book of the same name. It's a great book, which I recommend to anyone wondering where the Church is headed or anyone tempted to despair over the Church in America. You can visit Tim's new blog at www.youngandcatholic.com and find out more about Tim's new book, and about what young Catholics are up to and even submit your own profile as a young Catholic.
What's the ceiling for young? 25? 30? 40? 49.5?
Good question. It depends upon whose definition of young you use. The European concept of "young" is a bit more broad than the American concept. Hence, anyone under 40 could still be termed young. Under that definition I still qualify! :) For World Youth Day, I believe they use the 17-35 year old definition.
Tim - does the book have any info about Young Catholics and Music/Liturgy preferences?
JS,
There is a brief section on Contemporary Catholic Music, but not on liturgical music in particular. While young Catholics may have heated opinions on their liturgical preference, it wasn't a topic that most of them addressed in the context of my book.
Why would anyone accept Peter Vere's opinions? Even the Adoremus Bulletin disagrees with his views (see the letters section in the October 2004 edition of the Adoremus Bulletin). He likes to think that he doesn't criticize traditional Catholics as a whole, yet his many writings (letters, articles, etc) tend to lean in that direction.
The bottom line is that like many modern Catholics, he does not know anything about the Traditional Latin Mass, fails to define it in accord with traditional Church teaching, and fails to know its true history and development. Tim Drake has this same problem! They lack intellectual honesty. Yet Vere will say he attends the "old" Mass but where is his defense of it? He is more of a critic of the traditionalist movement than a friend. Meanwhile, the Church is being infiltrated with blasphemies such as the charismatic pentecostal-style Life Teen Mass and the "gay mass", but no books or articles are written against these issues by neo-catholics, yet the Traditionalist movement, which is far less common in the Church, is more criticized-fr. adler, STL
Alas, I guess I am too old to count as a "young Catholic". Oh well.