Ignorance on the part of the laity is an absolute requirement for these evil biships to do their dirty work. They know it would do no good to attempt to maul the Church and what she teaches if all the Faithful are knowledgable and informed.
Thank you, I had always wondered why we have had such poor catechesis from the Church over the past 30 or so years. I know we have the responsibility to teach ourselves, but if no teaching is coming from the Church (Church=individual parishes and priests in this case) then one would assume what you hear/don't hear in the Church is what you need to know.
One of the big things that irks me is the Extraordinary Eucharistic Ministers. My parish always has two for each mass (except the daily 9:00) and it doesn't matter if the Mass is half full (which it usually is). We have two priests in residence and one visiting (retired) for the 11:00 Sunday mass, so it is not an instance of not having the priests on hand to distribute Communion. The Eucharistic Ministers are very nice and kind and religiously attentive people and I always wonder what they would do and how they would react if they knew exactly what the Vatican teaches about the use of "extraordinary" Eucharistic Ministers. When I've tiptoed around the subject with a couple of them, they look at me like I am crazy and they seem to have the attitude that they were spiritually called for this contribution to God's work, no matter what the magisterium teaches.