Thank you for taking your vocation as primary religious educators of your children seriously!! As go faithful families, so go parishes and even dioceses. Even at its best, CCD is only there to supplement the parents, not replace them. I'm all for parents opting to take care of religious formation, …
Thank you for taking your vocation as primary religious educators of your children seriously!! As go faithful families, so go parishes and even dioceses. Even at its best, CCD is only there to supplement the parents, not replace them. I'm all for parents opting to take care of religious formation, especially if the parish program is wonky.
Keep doing what you're doing, even if it means finding forms of support other than the local parish. Just because your bone-headed diocesan administration is spiritually incompetent, that doesn't mean you are unwanted or unrespected by the rest of us!
Maybe the Diocese should be asking homeschool families why they don’t send their children to Catholic schools or want to enroll them in parish faith formation programs. I guarantee the answer would be enlightening.
If synodal involved listening to Catholics, that might be true.
However, it's just a cover for rubber stamping a leftist agenda, so families be damned. Full steam ahead with replacing homeschool groups with gay and trans support groups.
My wife and I homeschool our five young children. Well, technically only 3 are old enough to be homeschooled. I do not like this most recent news out of San Diego. Praise God, we have almost the polar opposite of a bishop here in our diocese. He's legitimately listening to homeschooling families and not making any hasty policy decisions.
All that being said, I do not like the spirit of your comment. Would that we could have both kinds of groups at our parishes, as our "gay and trans" brethren deserve a place to encounter God's mercy just as much as homeschooling families.
But Danny was specifically saying gay and trans support groups. Authentic support groups for people struggling with same sex attraction like Courage and Encourage do not call themselves gay support groups because gay automatically implies you are participating in that lifestyle or supporting it. We don't have thief support groups or adulterer support groups in parishes, though thieves and adulterers should definitely be welcome in every parish.
To any homeschool families reading this:
Thank you for taking your vocation as primary religious educators of your children seriously!! As go faithful families, so go parishes and even dioceses. Even at its best, CCD is only there to supplement the parents, not replace them. I'm all for parents opting to take care of religious formation, especially if the parish program is wonky.
Keep doing what you're doing, even if it means finding forms of support other than the local parish. Just because your bone-headed diocesan administration is spiritually incompetent, that doesn't mean you are unwanted or unrespected by the rest of us!
^Everything he said!^
Maybe the Diocese should be asking homeschool families why they don’t send their children to Catholic schools or want to enroll them in parish faith formation programs. I guarantee the answer would be enlightening.
It would be synodal too!
If synodal involved listening to Catholics, that might be true.
However, it's just a cover for rubber stamping a leftist agenda, so families be damned. Full steam ahead with replacing homeschool groups with gay and trans support groups.
My wife and I homeschool our five young children. Well, technically only 3 are old enough to be homeschooled. I do not like this most recent news out of San Diego. Praise God, we have almost the polar opposite of a bishop here in our diocese. He's legitimately listening to homeschooling families and not making any hasty policy decisions.
All that being said, I do not like the spirit of your comment. Would that we could have both kinds of groups at our parishes, as our "gay and trans" brethren deserve a place to encounter God's mercy just as much as homeschooling families.
But Danny was specifically saying gay and trans support groups. Authentic support groups for people struggling with same sex attraction like Courage and Encourage do not call themselves gay support groups because gay automatically implies you are participating in that lifestyle or supporting it. We don't have thief support groups or adulterer support groups in parishes, though thieves and adulterers should definitely be welcome in every parish.
Amen.
This.