text: As to the children of our generation or cohort, virtually none attend except for the Extraordinary Form. This is why the churches are closing like a falling house of cards, and it promises to get worse -- much worse -- in the coming two decades.—Elaine  So, Latin is their first language.  Really.  Not my experience at my local parish.  The problem may be extracting certitude, where no certitude exists; substituting Church politics for truth.  The administration of the Church is dysfunctional for many.  The knack, in the spirit of Black Catholics, is getting past the dysfunctionality and arrive at the scary uncertainty of truth, in the very spirit of Modernism.  Anyway, glad you are engaging here, helping to form a way out.