They use phrases about the irrelevancy of an authoritarian masculine church, about the lack of women priests, about nuns who were mean to them in the third grade. But in all of this they've not taken on the mind of Christ. They've taken on the mind of the media. The mind of Christ was never imparted to them. We have to take this indifference seriously, because the fate of our children is at stake.
Modernity is defined by options - an almost unlimited range of options for young people.
Our young people are not automatically going to choose the faith of their parents. Protestant evangelicals are wooing them. They have the movies on their side. They have films on their side. Don't tell me the Catholic Church should be a place where enthusiasm is excluded.