Some reading ...

Are Cradle Catholics and Converts Created Equal?
On invincible ignorance, EENS, etc. This teaching is one of the most difficult teachings for both Catholics and non-Catholics to comprehend. This is an excellent overview.

There is a common thread in the first two articles that I want to discuss

From the first:

But at times, they may also be tempted to say it isn’t "fair." They labor to serve God all their lives, while others breeze late into the Church, and receive the same rewards.

From the second:

Here am I (you complain) tied down by all sorts of restrictions and regulations which interfere seriously with my enjoyment of the present life; and here are these Protestants, invincibly ignorant of all these rules and regulations, and therefore having all the fun which I miss, and no worse off when it comes to a future life than myself?

And of course both of them resolve this objection in the same manner.
Matthew 20: 1-16 (NAB):

1 "The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.
2 After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 Going out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
4 and he said to them, 'You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.'
5 So they went off. (And) he went out again around noon, and around three o'clock, and did likewise.
6 Going out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'
7 They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You too go into my vineyard.'
8 When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'
9 When those who had started about five o'clock came, each received the usual daily wage.
10 So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage.
11 And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner,
12 saying, 'These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day's burden and the heat.'
13 He said to one of them in reply, 'My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?
14 Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you?
15 (Or) am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?'
16 Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last."

Maybe God is trying to tell me something since I keep encountering this passage. Our All Saints mass was difficult. That happens frequently when there isn't the usual childcare provided. On a day like that it is easy to say "Gessh, I sure had it easy when I wasn't required to go to church". The fact is, being in the Church with all of its gifts is a blessing and we have to see it that way, even when it seems like we are getting the bum end of the deal. What we HAVE is far greater than what we miss.

Some more reading ...

Top 10 Changes a Catholic Majority Would Make to the Supreme Court via Happy Catholic Supurb!
Archbishop: Pope will 'prune' institutions with weak Catholic identity via De Civitate Dei I hope this happens and I hope a solid cleansing of our higher learning institutions results in significant changes in the intellectual outlook of not only the Church but this nation.
Large Families Deserve Support, Pope Says YES PLEASE!!! We need all the help we can get. Well, I guess we aren't "large" yet but the plea remains. :)