Basic tenets of my faith

I am revert to Catholicism. I was a cradle Catholic, then fell away from the Church during when the post-Vatican-II reform movement in the United States got well and truly out of hand during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

It also didn’t hurt that I was young, full of hormones, and not at all interested in any body telling me that I couldn’t have sex with my girlfriend unless I got married first. I live a terribly sinful life, and I know the...