I think you'll be pleasantly surprised how much you DO remember. We learned it so young, and even though I was 13 or so when the changes came, I still remembered it when I sang a High Mass with a choir in NJ about 14 yrs. ago. That's the last High Mass I attended. I haven't searched one out, because I've found Parishes which for the most part have still had some reverence in the Liturgy, and when they went too far away from that in my opinion, complained mightily!
This is a great Novak column! He is so right in what he's saying about how it is the 'modernist' priests who have been caught doing this stuff, not the faithful orthodox priests. And I had wondered about the fact that most of these cases were from 10 yrs. ago, and that there didn't seem to be many (if any) from more recently, except by those who had done it before. I had heard from my brother in law (who is one of those prayerful, faithful priests) several years ago that some of the Bishops had done some cleaning out of the Seminaries, so I guess that did bear some fruit in the quality of the men being ordained. And he also mentioned that some of the men who were ordained around the same time as those 'modernist' priests in the late 60s and early 70s, but who had remained orthodox and were appalled at what they saw happening around them, were now coming into positions of influence and power. From there, they will be able to effect some REAL change back to the more prayerful practices of Catholicism. There will be pain for a while, but we'll have to carry that Cross for awhile to renew God's Church.
That's my reply to my Methodist friends who insist that celibacy is the root of all our problems.
They get tongue-tied when I ask them if the problem of celibacy should be solved by having an affair if one's spouse is away for an extended period of time (say, a military deployment for 12 months -- that one always gets my retired army pal).
People outside the Church seem much more troubled by the celibacy of our Priests than we are. I'm not sure why it offends them so, but it does.