[cammie]

I’ve found that most Catholics I’ve met (including on FR) don’t have much of an idea what they even believe?

Perhaps you should consider that they have no interest in getting into their beliefs with you.

Why should they, when the hierarchy does the thinking for them?

Utterly laughable. The Catholic intellectual tradition is the strongest in all of Christianity. You might want to ask Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, and Roberts if the hierarchy does their thinking for them.

I wonder how many Catholics have actually even read their own Catechism? I have.

Good for you. Want a medal?

[Petronski]

There is reading, and there is understanding. Sometimes they do not intersect.