[ultima ratio]

Amazing how you resist having done to yourself what was done to millions and millions of Catholics back in 1970--millions who walked away from the Catholic Church as a result of the imposition of the Novus Ordo and swore never to return again. Mass attendance dropped precipitously from 80%+ to half that within five years. It's been dropping ever since and is now around 17%. Call that a springtime if you want, but to anybody with an open mind it's a disaster. Rome has these terrible facts on its hands, but keeps applying the same bad medicine to the same modernist sickness. We don't need more modernism--we need a return to the true faith.

[ninenot]

millions who walked away from the Catholic Church as a result of the imposition of the Novus Ordo and swore never to return

You can document this claim, of course.

In the entire Milwaukee metropolitan area, population around 1.5 million, I know of about 1,000 people who are NOT attending a licit Mass.

And of that 1,000, approximately half are under the age of 16--that is to say, they don't get a choice in the matter.

There were better reasons to leave the Church, if you consider the lure of materialism and NFL football "better."

Remember, the Church never accepted birth control and is still quite serious about marriage, sensationalized reports to the contrary notwithstanding.

Further, the Church's 'social issues' stands, while sometimes also taken to extremes by overzealous MA/Sociology nuns, was also not too popular--especially with those who (to this day) despise the concept of 'civil rights.'