[NYer]

So 1500 years of Catholics, including popes, were excluded from the reality of life around them, until some bugger named Bugnini opened the eyes of contemporary catholics to "reality"?

You missed the point. At a TLM, What is the percentage of divorced/remarried or divorced/living with girlfriend catholics that comprise the congregation? Assuming, of course, that you can identify them.

[ebb tide]

You missed the point. At a TLM, What is the percentage of divorced/remarried or divorced/living with girlfriend catholics that comprise the congregation? Assuming, of course, that you can identify them.

I think the percentage is not much less or more than it was in all Catholic congregations prior to VC II, when the Church started handing out annulments like lollipops and even entertained the notion of artificial birth control. We now see a Pope entertaining giving Holy Communion to active non-repentent adulterers.