This was an interesting topic in another forum that I found. What do you think?

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How true is the claim made by the people at The Remnant that the trad movement is a youth movement?

What can substatiate these claims?

A better question might be whether it was a lay or clerical movement ... and whether it has remained a lay or clerical movement.

I wonder how many "youth" find traditional Catholicism on their own.  

I think at CMRI, most young people are there with their parents, or were raised trads.  I don't know of too many people in my situation ( young adult converts who are slightly fresher-faced than Wilford Brimley, but in my case, only slightly ).

Just because I don't know of them doesn't mean they don't exist, mind you.  It's not as if I'm a social butterfly who interviews all and sundry about how they found the Latin Mass / sedevacantism.  But it seems most young people are attached to parental units and not there on their own, which is slightly discouraging.

My mom was aware of Traditionalism, but I'm the one who nagged my parents into it when I was 13.

I find that MLK Jr. (I really despise this man, but there are some good things in his writings --assuming he wrote it-- occasionally sprinkled in among the rest of it, which is just horrible) was right was he say that the youth are turning away from "the Church" (he's of course refer to all the Protestant churches as some sort of collective entity) out of disgust because it is become just like a social club, etc. Its true really.

I'm actually uncomfortable with the terming of "trad Cath movement" I haven't gone soft on the Novus Ordo (in fact I get more disgusted at it every day, although exasperrated it perhaps the more accurate word) but I find that bestowing the title of "trad Cath" on something is largely irrelevant. In the end it will just be the elect and the damned. So just think how ridiculous it would be to say that "election is a youth movement". Its all about Will of Heaven. Some people God gives the graces to find the Latin Mass, some people God gives different graces. For example, there are a whole lot of places in the world where there are no Latin Masses offered, no traditionally ordained priests, etc - are the Catholics in those places going to be excluded from election because they haven't found the Latin Mass, etc? In my experience, there have been many Catholics who attend the Novus Ordo who have kept their Catholic sense, etc despite being in a surrounding supporting modernism etc. I'm not supporting the Novus Ordo mass because such people remain good Catholics IN SPITE of the NO, not because of it. Its funny, in a sad way.Really, it is. Its pathetic (in the older sense of the word, not "wimpy) to see somebody kneeling down in a Novus Ordo church praying the Rosary before Mass while the rest of the people are busy talking about high school football in the pews, etc. Some of the churches are built in such a way that any gesture of reverence actually seems out of place inside of it. That goes for the NO mass too. Like its so ridiculous that it seems out of place to be reverent. The whole system invites apathy towards God and religion.

What I really wanted to say is that some people can be good Catholics without finding the Latin Mass. It just has to do with submission to God's will and devotion to the Blessed Mother.

2 weeks ago, I met 2 men aged about 25 yrs who came to attend a Trad Mass after discovering it by internet.  In my place there are about 10 young adults and teenagers who discovered Trad Mass through their friends and decided to ask for Catholic Baptism.  Tradition is not exactly a youth movement, but a number of youth find it without help from their family.

I left my "Novus Ordo" parish as soon as Summorum Pontificuм was promulgated. A young diocesan priest started offering one TLM. on Sun. As we have progressed, he says the Latin Mass in the evening on special occasions.

In our area, the "white heads" remained at the Novus Ordo parish &, the Latin Mass that I attend has more young families (parents from 25-35) than older ones. In fact, at 69, I'm probably the oldest one there. We have lots of young children & CAN YOU IMAGINE.........no cheerios, no little cars being run up & down the pew & it seems that they've all gone to the bathroom BEFORE Mass. :dancing-banana:

PS. Lest you think I'm a grouchy old lady, I'll tell you that my husband & I, in our younger days,  took 4 children to Mass every Sunday & they were all born within 6 years. We taught them very early that they were to behave during Mass. They were normal, boisterous kids who learned  respect for the Mass.