[GirlShortstop]

Archbishop Hughes: Unfortunately, the widespread use of these books perpetuates a religious illiteracy that is all too prevalent in the Church today. It is very important that young people are given an opportunity, first of all, to learn the truths of the faith, and secondly, to grow in understanding of them.

It isn't just "today".    The bishop's response caught my eye because just the other day I told my sister how lucky she was to have been taught so much about our religion; it gave her the foundation for understanding.  Twelve years of Catholic school through to the eighties, and I was never taught how to say the rosary, much less all the prayers she (and many of y'all I'm sure) still recites.
Where did all the good nuns go?
FReegards.

[NYer]

Where did all the good nuns go?

Ignorance is bliss ... don't ask!

I can tell you that some of these religious orders border on the heretical. Others, like Mother Angelica's order - The Carmelites - are beginning to pick up steam and grow again. It's all cyclical. Keep in mind that most catholics no longer produce large families. Factor in the messages driven home to young women by the feminists and the government schools, that they are 'equal' to men and should compete on a level plane. /sigh/

We're on a rocky portion of the road right now but up ahead, the surface has been repaved. ;-D

[ninenot]

The "religion" coursework changed, heading south, in the 1960's; by 1975 it was widespread, and (now) is 2/3rds of the available literature.

What the good Bishop carefully avoids, of course, is that it is the responsibility of the Diocesan Bishop to make CERTAIN that texts conform to orthodoxy.

In other words, the flaccid and/or ignorant Bishops simply abandoned their duty to the Faithful in catechesis. It's clear that some were pre-occupied moving priests around to keep the prosecutors at bay; what were the REST of them doing?

[Desdemona]

Twelve years of Catholic school through to the eighties, and I was never taught how to say the rosary, much less all the prayers she (and many of y'all I'm sure) still recites.

Ditto.

We were taught some sketchy things, but most of what I've learned has been what I've discovered on my own.

[redhead]

"Where did all the good nuns go? FReegards."

Into cloisters, I suspect. Mother Angelica's Poor Clares of the Perpetual Adoration in Birmingham Alabama is bulging at the seams.