Ruadhán Jones
Members of the Youth Classical Schola of St Louis Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia., sing a canticle before the start of a pontifical solemn high
Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, April 2010. Photo: CNS Conservative Catholic communities offer tight-knit Catholic networks, writes Ruadhán Jones Raymond Friel, an English Catholic academic, caused a bit of a stir on Twitter recently when he questioned why young priests are drawn to what looks like a Church imagined from the 1950s “soutanes in the high street, etc.” It’s an interesting question, one which…
