text: Diocesan seminaries here in NY have gone rogue. Their graduates wear birettas, cassocks, lacy surplices, fancier and fancier vestments. Clearly they are trying to set themselves apart from their congregations a la the old Latin Mass Era of the 50s. Vatican II lasted only a few years and the reign of JP II was decades. Yet the conservative clergy seem to blame everything on Vatican II.  If they think their new behavior will bring people either to the Church or back to the Church, they are sadly mistaken. 
  I have spoken to many of them and I think their academic education is very lacking. If they are the best and the brightest, I despair for our future.  It is the Bishops' control of the seminaries that scare me most. I think the average Catholic doesn't know or care very much what they say.  I bet if you ask the average Catholic what the letters USCCB mean, they would have no idea. The people, who LOVE Pope Francis, have no idea many in the hierarchy and clergy hold him in low esteem.