I’m sure these same ‘Catholics’ are equally fuzzy about the Real Presence, the reality of sin, and a host of other bedrock Catholic dogma. But my guess is that even if they’ve sat in the pews diligently for the past 40 years they never heard their priest speak of these things. So absolutely, this is a failure on the part of the hierarchy. The whole purpose of the Church is to preserve and pass on the Deposit of the Faith for the salvation of souls and the Catholic Church in America has failed miserably in that fundamental mission in the post-Vatican II era.
Maybe they went to a Latin mass and can’t understand Latin. Heh.
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