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I have spent many years in the church of the New Mass, and now I attend only the Latin Mass. I can say that it is NOT the same faith. Obviously you are well-intentioned and trying to be a faithful Catholic. But the reality is that the Catholic Faith you are being given is not the same.

I would be fascinated to hear exactly how I am deficient. What "Reality" of the Faith do I not have? What tenet am I missing? What Truth am I not getting?

What "Reality" of the Faith do I not have? What tenet am I missing? What Truth am I not getting?

Here is just one example -- I chose an issue unrelated to the liturgy, but one which affects every aspect of your life as a family. Have you ever been taught the primary purpose of marriage? Many popes have dogmatically stated that the primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children. Pope Pius XII said:

It was precisely to end the uncertainties and deviations which threatened to diffuse errors regarding the scale of values of the purposes of matrimony and of their reciprocal relations, that a few years ago (March 10, 1944), We Ourselves drew up a declaration on the order of those ends, pointing out what the very internal structure of the natural disposition reveals. We showed what has been handed down by Christian tradition, what the Supreme Pontiffs have repeatedly taught, and what was then in due measure promulgated by the Code of Canon Law. Not long afterwards, to correct opposing opinions, the Holy See, by a public decree, proclaimed that it could not admit the opinion of some recent authors who denied that the primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of the offspring, or teach that the secondary ends are not essentially subordinated to the primary end, but are on an equal footing and independent of it.

This sounds very much like an infallible teaching, not because of an ex cathedra statement, but because he demonstrates the repeated concurrence of Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium. Yet this teaching is not only ignored today, it is actively attacked and derided, even by the Vatican. I know of no statement from the last 3 pontificates which unambiguously expresses this foundational teaching. Even the canon law was changed to be ambiguous.

Any Catholic who is not active in the traditional movement will be unaware of such fundamental matters. There are hundreds more. How can someone build a solid family life when the hierarchy is actively working to suppress and distort the necessary information?