[Maximilian]

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?

[Domestic Church]

"Many popes have dogmatically stated that the primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children."
"Any Catholic who is not active in the traditional movement will be unaware of such fundamental matters. There are hundreds more."

This is so sad and so true. Time and time again I have seen active parishoners (usually younger than I) who have no idea about this. Catechesis/education is assumed to be the main duty of others..."isn't that what the DRE is for?"

The only way to stop this is to insist upon the reading/teaching of the CCC as part of the Baptismal preparation of parents. Too much has been watered down in the various books and pamphlets used in the CCD/parochial programs. Original sources must be used above a certain grade level...before Confirmation.

[SoothingDave]

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.

It's to get lower car insurance rates, right?

Any Catholic who is not active in the traditional movement will be unaware of such fundamental matters. There are hundreds more.

Well, I'm glad that you are getting everything you need. Please pray for us poor, ignorant souls, that God may have mercy on us as well, and maybe throw us a scrap of knowledge.

SD