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More on the Generation Gap
"'Isn't he sooo cute!' coos Amy. She is not talking about some fraternity boy she's in love with. She's melting over John Paul II chanting a Latin hymn on a CD she has brought with her on retreat. Only the pope is that kind of cute . . ." Mark Mossa, a Jesuit at Loyola University, writes in this month's America of his experience working with 'Both Gen-Y and Catholic' college kids. Mossa echoes the frustrations of baby-boomer Catholics at the militant orthodoxy of young Catholics, their fierce loyalty to the Magisterium and unapologetic POD antics. At the same time, he voices an ironic, 'but ya gotta love 'em anyway!' attitude which flops painfully only because of the magazine he's writing for. He ends with this: "The prejudices against them are born of old fights, old animosities and anxieties that too much love for the institutional church will somehow force us through a time-warp back to the 1930's. That may be the desire of the Baby Boomers [sic], but that's not what these young people want. Rather, they want to be connected to their Catholic tradition in an age when it sometimes seems we are meant to apologize for it . . . . They are their own breed, thoroughly modern and unapologetically Catholic - which you will find out for yourself, when you get to know them." # posted by Jamie : 1:05 PM |
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