In the long run, we’re all traditionalist

Georg war in einer Messe, die nach dem Missale von 1962 gefeiert wurde, und ist beruhigt:

Das ist und bleibt ein Minderheitenprogramm für eine Hand voll älterer Katholiken.

Nun ja. Diese Statistik aus Frankreich spricht eine andere Sprache:

It seems that 5% of French Catholics attend the traditional Mass somewhere in France every Sunday. It is, however, 13% of Catholics under the age of 55.

The demographics get even scarier if you are a French bishop. Of traditionalist congregations 90% are less than 55 yo and their average age is 26. Scariest of all is that 70% of traditionalist families have four or more children. This is more or less an age pyramid with a broad base and a small peak (11% over 56 yo). The usual Novus Ordo congregation has an inverted age pyramid with the bulk of the congregation over 55 yo.

I failed statistics, but even I can see that in 20 years time the only people going to the new mass in France will be elderly bishops.