{"id":15538,"date":"2012-07-14T09:40:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=15538"},"modified":"2012-07-14T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T15:42:48","slug":"enough-with-the-reaction-to-the-reaction-to-the-reaction-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/14\/enough-with-the-reaction-to-the-reaction-to-the-reaction-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough With the Reaction to the Reaction to the Reaction Already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry Anne Weddel,\u00a0co-director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/siena.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine of Siena Institute<\/a>, has written a fascinating essay on generational acrimony in the Catholic Church: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/siena.org\/July-2012\/enough-with-the-reaction-to-the-reaction-to-the-reaction-already\" target=\"_blank\">Enough With the Reaction to the Reaction to the Reaction Already!<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weddel has been meditating upon &#8220;the nearly complete break-down of trust between generations of Catholics, between left and right.&#8221; She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can\u2019t tell you how wearying living with the reaction to the reaction to the reaction to the reaction is getting. Now that I\u2019m seeing (as I knew was inevitable) the first signs of reaction by the very youngest seminarians to their trad \u201celders\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The cycle of reaction and rejection keeps speeding up and now it only take 5 \u2013 10 years or so for a \u201cnew generation\u201d to take the required stance against the failures of its \u201celders\u201d (who may still be in their 20\u2019s).<\/p>\n<p>Each group sees itself as the inevitable wave of the future and each group can\u2019t grasp that their unique take on the world won\u2019t triumph forever in a climate where contempt between generations is normative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this really true? Are the youngest seminarians really starting to react against their &#8220;elders&#8221; (in their 20s and 30s) in cassocks and birettas? OK, I admit, I really <em>want<\/em> it to be true. 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