Tons. Proper formation is key to being a good practicing catholic. Let me tell you the walk it took me. I left the Catholic Church (vat 2 baby) looking for something. I became a virulently anti catholic, looking to save all I could from the church. I studied my way right back into it.
I know that I needed to go through what I did, to get where I am. Many are not so, not sure of the word here, lucky? Blessed? to go through it. Some are like my mother; they have a blind faith, and follow the church blindly.
While that is a blessing, if you have a leader not worthy of emulation, one who is playing fast and loose with things like this, how would they know better? It is what they have always known, always done, nothing seems different.
I can only hope more Catholics WILL wake up and learn, but it should be expected from the majority of the church leaders (all would be impossible as weak priests and leaders will always be with us).
Maybe I have much to learn yet, no, I definetly do, but I have a dog in this fight, and while I commend and appreciate those who speak up, we need more of them to do it, and soon. You can’t allow half truths and the like to be taught or condoned through silence these last 40 years, and then be upset with improperly formed catholics.
The key line from the article that would support what wombtotomb is saying:
Chaput expanded, "It seems like there has been a very bad period of catechesis of people in the Church, not only catechesis of the laity but also catechesis of the clergy and it's bearing bad fruit in our time."
The point Archbishop Chaput is making that this bad period yielding bad fruits infested not only the laity but also the clergy (which would include Bishops, Archbishops, and Cardinals -- as well as priests)...