I don't know if this priest gets out much, but those divisions are still quite firmly in place.
...a younger generation of Catholics ... don’t care that much for the traditionalist agenda.
These are the young people who are filing traditional religious orders with young vocations.
Uh... Huh?
What he is saying actually makes sense:
1) “...a younger generation of Catholics ... don’t care that much for the traditionalist agenda.”
He is saying that the young devout Catholic want to be Catholic without a “traditionalist” label. They often share many of the same beliefs about tradition (e.g. liturgy, sacraments, scripture) held by Traditionalists, but they don’t want to be segregated into ghettos of Catholic life (i.e. Latin Mass parishes which often don’t feel like they really belong to a diocese).
2)”These are the young people who are filing traditional religious orders with young vocations.”
These traditional minded young Catholics are joining traditional religious orders because they are serious, devout, and hard core. They are not joining them merely because of Latin Mass, or (if it’s a convent) because the nuns wear a habit.
You can see this actually working out this way: I have encountered a number of recently ordained priests who are learning how to say the old Mass. These are DIOCESAN priests. They didn’t join a Latin Mass order. They are just diocesan priests who want to offer the Latin Mass in their parish. They are traditional minded, without having segregated themselves in Latin Mass ghettos.
As a Catholic, I don’t share the optimism that the new priests have strong faith. In my experience dealing with priests under 60 years of age, they tend to have a liberal worldview that prevents them from condemning any behavior at all.
I’ve never heard them even criticize their brother priests who raped minors.