Bad news for the mainstream media, it seems — the secularization of the Catholic Church has hit reverse. Or so the Associated Press fulminates in an amusing report about the trend toward catechesis in the American Catholic Church and parishioners who, y’know, actually believe this stuff.
No, seriously … that’s the story. The liberal vanguard of the 1960s and 1970s has aged out of leadership, and newer generations are actually living their lives according to the doctrines of the church to which they belong. At the same time that the media has spent the last six months offering sympathetic looks at campus protesters because of their commitment to [checks notes] anti-Semitism and Hamas terrorism, the AP has a freak-out over an uptick in confession and chapel veils.
Given the context, this might have passed muster at the Babylon Bee:
Across the U.S., the Catholic Church is…
