That holds true for ... as the author pointed out ... 90% of catholics. Young, old ... doesn't make a difference, especially among cradle catholics who follow the leader in all that is taught.
With 12 years of catholic school education, I believed that I had a good handle on my faith. And then, in my first major job, I was assigned to a manager who was a Mormon. At that point, reality kicked in. It wasn't until I tapped into this forum and turned the TV to EWTN that I truly began to learn about my catholic faith.
Peter Kreeft says it well ....
Like all converts I ever have heard of, I was hauled aboard not by those Catholics who try to "sell" the church by conforming it to the spirit of the times by saying Catholics are just like everyone else, but by those who joyfully held out the ancient and orthodox faith in all its fullness and prophetic challenge to the world. The minimalists, who reduce miracles to myths, dogmas to opinions, laws to values, and the Body of Christ to a psycho-social dub, have always elicited wrath, pity, or boredom from me. So has political partisanship masquerading as religion.
With 12 years of catholic school education, I believed that I had a good handle on my faith. And then, in my first major job, I was assigned to a manager who was a Mormon. At that point, reality kicked in. It wasn't until I tapped into this forum and turned the TV to EWTN that I truly began to learn about my catholic faith.
If the RCC is essentially a teaching institution, where has the teaching gone?