I hope to hear from people on this blog on their experience with Catholic education as well as their opinions on Catholic books. Before I reverted, I would read books and magazines on things Catholic even while never going to Church. One book I bought was “The New Men” by Brian Murphy, which gives an inside look at the North American College in Rome. The rector when the book was published was the wonderful Fr. Timothy Dolan, now Bishop of Milwaukee. On page 87 the author describes the experience Dolan had when he was a seminarian (1968-1972). When seminarians started to claim the traditional mass was outdated, stopped wearing their clerical collars, and when everything was questioned, attacked and changed, Dolan “did not fully support all the clamor, but he went along”. There have been quite a few priests over the past 10 years who have wondered why they just let things happen the way they did, why they didn’t speak up more, etc.. and this introspection is good. {Start Sermon} People in the Church should stop thinking that every attempt to question the so-called reforms of the past 30 years is an attempt to “turn back the clock”. Things were done incorrectly and some changes were very negative, just look around. It will take generations to reform but the worst thing to do is blindly insist that everything that has changed, has changed for the better. {End of sermon}