Among young Catholics at the University of Dallas, Texas, the kind of liturgy that’s accompanied by guitar-strumming and hymns from the 1970s is referred to, somewhat patronisingly, as “the Bob Dylan Mass”. “It’s our joke,” says Claire Seelig, 22, a recent graduate of the university. “Like, ‘Oh, yeah, the boomer hippie music – that’s the Bob Dylan Mass'."
Claire belongs to a growing cohort of young Catholics across America who regularly attend the Traditional Latin Mass, despite now finding access to it restricted. Conservative, intellectually hungry and digitally literate, they’re in the contemporary world but certainly not of it.
