jg, did you have pre-marital sex with your wife or anyone else? (just joking :)).
For me Catholicism was just tradition but did not mean a lot. Dad warned me at a young age to not believe everything the church said and never to take anything at face value. He also talked politics to me when I was 5.
Catholic mass is beautiful but the Church is all about money — money for this, money for that, and big bucks when you die.