Young Australian Catholics are embracing social media but simultaneously going back to traditions like wearing veils and cassocks and celebrating Latin Mass.
For years, self-confessed rugby addict Jessica Langrell’s ambition was to represent Australia at the Olympics. She had a shot, too; she was invited to a training squad. “My biggest dream was lined up in front of me,” she says, and she turned it down.
She speaks of strangers who’ve burst into tears at the sight of her old-style habit; who’ve beseeched the sisters to pray for sick relatives, and shared with them their deepest fears. “I’ve only ever experienced as a bridge to people,” she says. Sisters from the relatively new order Missionaries of God’s Love, at St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Warrnambool.The wimpled Sisters of Mary Morning Star, founded in 2014, have opened a convent in Brisbane. A cloistered, silent Carmelite order has opened a convent on the NSW-Victorian border, and a young woman from Sydney’s Maroubra has just made her final vow.
Isabelle Stewart, 30, a former teacher from Warrnambool said she doesn’t mind depending on donations. “It’s like everything else faded away,” she said. “My parents … very much instilled the truth that these things provide limited enjoyment and limited comfort. It’s not long lasting.”Father Sam French – a 31-year-old known as the TikTok priest, is open about embracing traditional attire, and discusses it with his 63,900 followers.
At communion, the priest places the eucharist not in the hands, a post-Vatican II practice, but on the tongue, which adherents believe is an expression of humility, and ensures they don’t lose even a crumb of what has been transformed into the body of Christ. While older women were more hungry for reforms such as introducing female priests or allowing divorcees to get married, younger devotees had little interest in relaxing rules on sex, contraception and the priesthood.
The Latin mass has become emblematic of this power struggle, particularly in America, where so-called “radtrads” argue the watering down of traditional practices are causing the slow decline of the church. The Society of St Pius X’s Australia and New Zealand chapter also regards the old mass as truly Catholic, centred on God, and fruitful , and the new one as half-protestant, centred on man, and “barren”.
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