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Aidan T's avatar

Are the parishes in San Diego offering poor catechesis? That’s quite a big leap from what it says in the article. Even if the catechesis is insipid, lame or boring I think people should do it together. It would have to be outright heretical before people should shun it.

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Annie's avatar

Really?? What have decades of “insipid, lame, boring” catechesis at parishes gotten us? Generations of Catholics who no longer practice the faith, and parishes where the classes are filled with kids who are dropped off at RE and whose parents do not attend Mass.

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Tom Gregorich's avatar

You can do both!! Supplement at home whatever "lame" aspects of ccd that you find. Its difficult to not come to the conclusion that these families just want nothing to do with their parish, and that is wrong.

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Annie's avatar

There are many other aspects of parish life in which they can (and maybe do) participate- foremost, attendance at mass on Sundays. Sacrificing my children’s education for the sake of the parish’s CCD program or the parish school’s attendance numbers is not something I am willing to do.

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Andrew S's avatar

Except for the fact that they presumably attend Mass at the parish, donate to the parish, seek the sacraments for their children at the parish, and love the parish so much that they choose to use it as a meeting point for their homeschooling group!

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ALT's avatar

Sending a child to an insipid, lame, boring catechism class that doesn't actually teach them the Faith, does an excellent job of teaching them that the Faith is insipid, lame, boring, and doesn't have any actual substance to it. To even supplement bad catechesis at church with good catechesis at home, the parents would have to be sitting in on the classes to figure out what to supplement. For each child. Which could mean more different classes than there are parents.

Also, time is one of those finite resources that don't get replenished. Children's time should not be wasted by making them sit around being told things they already know for a couple hours a week. Few adults would put up with that.

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Gail Finke's avatar

A lot depends on what the program is. When my kids were confirmed, all the kids in the parish had to go through the same process. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible or a huge time commitment, we were glad they did it with the group. My niece and nephew live in a different state, their kids had to go through TWO YEARS of monthly meetings and projects, all of it awful.

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