At Taki Mag, Dalrymple reflects on the cultural obsession with youth and the way modern society equates staying “young forever” with adolescent behavior.

There has been a vogue for running after a youthful clientele ever since the Second Vatican Council, when the Catholic Church more or less abandoned the Latin Mass, among other things. The leaders of the church had the rather dim idea of trying to attract young people to the religion by “modernizing” its liturgy, which was far more beautiful in Latin than in any modern language