Francis Angry, "The Young Priests Buy Cassocks"
“It is enough to go to the ecclesiastical tailor shops in Rome to see the scandal (sic) of young priests trying on cassocks and hats, or albs and roquettes with lace,” Francis raged to the ex-synod on October 25.
Francis knows that the young priests in cassocks are the future while he belongs to the bygone 1960s. For Francis, "clericalism" is a "whip", a "scourge", a "form of worldliness" that defiles and damages the face of the Church. No one knows what he means by "clericalism".
Then, the dictator projected himself: “When clerics go beyond their ministry and mistreat the People of God, they disfigure the face of the Church with sexist and dictatorial attitudes.”
He enigmatically warned against his church becoming a “supermarket of salvation” where “priests are mere employees of a multinational.” This is the “great defeat to which clericalism is leading us.” What has "clericalism" to do with "employees of a multinational" or "supermarket of salvation"? What is a "supermarket of salvation"? …More
The cassock is a problem in the Church? Nobody will believe it.
I never saw a single priest in my country with a cassock during the last 24 years outside the traditional rites (Roman or others). Hey wait! Did Francis just said that while wearing a white cassock? (Facepalm)
@P. O'B @Kenjiro M. Yoshimori To compare apples with apples, Québécois Mass attendance is around 2% versus 90% for them and their ancestors back in the 1950s. It does not mean that all the rest of the population was not religious, like moms staying home on Sunday morning with their young children to prepare the formal lunch.
Since then, immigrants massively came in Quebec (in the 7 digits); filling our temples. They are from all over the world, but especially from Latin America (Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, etc...). Now we have Catholic Italian parishes, Korean, Lebanese (Melkite), Haitian (unofficially), Chinese, Irish, plenty of parishes for English speakers, Hungarian, Polish etc., and many parishes and special Masses in Spanish.
This situation may give a 10% on paper, but it is not a remnant of the old 90%, but rather parishioners from other countries.
That being said, stats should be updated at least every ten years, and I don't know if the 10% is still accurate.