/lit/ - Literature

>>22515967
Oh, yeah, it's 100% the Boomers. The current state of the Church is so strange because every young Catholic who has stuck around is smarter, better read, better catechized, and seems to have a deeper faith than a ton of the Boomers who are currently archbishops and cardinals. With a handful of exceptions, the upper ranks of the hierarchy are full of old homos who I wouldn't favor in a debate with your average Zoomer from Catholic Twitter. Even the more left-wing Catholics, whom I profoundly disagree with, are more trustworthy in their faith than the average old Boomer cardinal.

You're used to respecting your elders in Catholicism, but today the situation is reversed: I respect younger Catholics far more than I respect older ones, because they're more knowledgable and because they've faced some of the bleakest times to be Catholic in centuries and have stuck it out.

Hopefully, as you say, this means good things for the future, as younger people become priests, monks, nuns, and eventually bishops. But right now it's a very odd time.

>>21715514
Would it have been so terrible to just admit that genuine Christianity can be beautiful? Nietzsche himself knew that most of his critiques of Christianity only applied to the lukewarm, insincere Christians already populating the West even in the 19th Century. As I recall, he admired many of the Catholic saints. He could have just let go of his bitterness and realized that his true problem was with bad Christians, not with Christianity as such.