By The Most Reverend Joseph Strickland, The Wanderer - In my ministry as a Shepherd of souls, I have discovered that too many Catholics have not been evangelized or properly catechized. Too many of the faithful do not know the very basic teachings of the Catholic Church. Often, through no fault of their own… There is a desperate need for Catholics to understand their faith in order to be able to live it and give it away to others. Sadly, the teachers of the Catholic Church, starting with the bishops, have too often focused on other topics, rather than teaching the Catholic Christian faith to the flock entrusted to their care. And, we are reaping the bad fruit of this failure in the falling away from the faith which we are witnessing.