Young U.S. Catholics Want More Orthodoxy

While it is true that the “ethos of Vatican II,” as the A.P. puts it, dominated much of American Catholic life in the decades after the council, that seems to be changing. But what seems to be replacing the “spirit of Vatican II” is not indifference to the council, still less a rejection of it, but a form of Catholicism that embodies precisely the ecclesiological, sacramental and liturgical vision laid out by the council itself.