Nobody did more to chase away young people from Mass (or Bible study, for that matter) than Traddies as exemplified in the posts by Jay and Trid. It's all right there in their posts, arrogance, condescension, rigidity, and an absolute contempt for the young - unkempt, disrespectful, bad mannered - just a few of the slurs they cast on the young in two short posts.

These same people in real time shot down any youth programmes/initiatives in their parishes, complained about noise, complained about the music the young people  liked. The list is endless.

Bitter people whose lives had passed them by and who secretly detested having been dragged along to Mass, Benediction, Rosaries, Novenas, in an unintelligible language, when THEY were young. And by God, if they were subjected to it - real, eh, Faith - then the next generations should be subjected to it too.

You are spot on, Elag, there are reasons why they continue to hit their heads against a Latin wall. One of them isn't its 'beauty.'