text: This article seems to want to imply that what it calls "restorationism" -- sounds like authentic Catholic culture to me, but whatever -- is bad. 
  
  I'm hard pressed to see why. 
  
  It wants to "renew the renewal." OK. Renewal is good, isn't it? It makes meaningful afresh that which is part of our heritage -- a fine thing to do, as we know from a recent holy father that the renewal brought by Vatican II should be viewed through the lens of continuity, rather than as a rupture with the past. 
  
  Traditional practices? That sounds good. As Catholics, we revere tradition, regarding it as a source of authentic teaching. 
  
  Vestments that look nice? OK. As long as parishes must continue to buy vestments -- and they do -- they might as well look beautiful.
  
  Most of all: Seminarians deliberately adhering to Catholicism distinct from secularized society. How is this anything but joyful, a metanoia in our modern Ninevah? This author, and Fr. Ruff, it seems, grieve needlessly.