With all due respect to these petitioners, it is no fault of Bishop Barres that their generation failed to pass on the faith and failed to foster priestly vocations among their sons.  We are only reaping what the Vatican II generation sowed, an enemic, bland and immanent vision of Church that leaves the next two generations thinking that Catholicism is a pathetic response to the world.  It is the JP II and B XVI priests that have stemmed the tide of the bland 70s adolescent Catholicism that reigns among the elderly.