When reading about the Vatican and the Beetles...and read some pro and con comments from "grannies and geezers" (as named below), I wondered this topic, matters at all to young Roman Catholics....and what does...what is the future?   The internet comment below may be one viewpoint, or may represent more? It is from what seems to be a younger RC:


"Most Catholics I know, under the age of 30, could care less about the 1960s and the revolutions that decade inspired. Slowly but surely, the beatnik hippy culture is becoming the stuff of grannies and geezers. The 60s are over, (they have been for nearly 40 years), and America's youth are ready to move on. In many ways, the practicing Catholics of generation x, y and z have more in common with their grandparents than their parents. The solid moral compass of the 1940s and 50s seems far more appealing than the peace, love, 'rock and roll' philosophy of the 1960s and 70s. . It helps to explain why Catholic beliefs, values and morals are doing well among Catholics, but support of organized Catholicism (particularly in the USA) is falling apart"

.Posted by: John | Monday, January 23, 2006:
http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/roman_catholic_blog/2006/01/the_catholic_ch.html