REGINA: Why is it that most people have no idea that these traditional Orders are attracting so many young vocations?
MIKE: For the same reasons they attend Jimmy Buffet Masses in Hawaiian shirts, cargo short-pants and sock-less Crocs i.e. they are comfortable where they are and ignorance is bliss, though this bliss is banal and uninspiring.
REGINA: Hmmm, what do you mean?
MIKE: There is a near ubiquitous ignorance of the Church’s teaching today especially moral teaching. So if you don’t know that there remains a prohibition on contraception it would seem normal to you to see families of second wives, husbands and 2.5 kids -- there’s no traditional lex vivendi there -- so where would they see priests in cassocks, berets and saturnos!? Or, even know they still exist outside the pages of books grandma left the kids after her canonization service, I mean ‘funeral’?
NEWLY ORDAINED FATHER MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM and his family.
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