"their children do not deserve the privilege of a Catholic education."
As I understand your thinking here, you believe that only those who are "deserving" are worthy to recieve the message of Jesus. I disagree. I believe the message of Christ is meant for everyone. If we were deprived of Christ's message based upon not only our sins but the sins of our parents, I fear the church would no longer exist. The Catholic Church is not a country club with an "exclusive membership". The church is for everyone.
As I was taught, only God has the right to judge what is within someone's heart.
The Church is not for those who refuse to attend. Those who do not attend refuse "fellowship with us" (1 St. John 1.3)
If we were deprived of Christ's message based upon not only our sins but the sins of our parents, I fear the church would no longer exist.
Refusing to attend Mass is not some simple mortal sin like adultery or theft, but outright apostacy from the Christian faith. Such people are to be first admonished, and then shunned. "A factious man avoid after a first and second admonition, knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned." (Letter to St. Titus 3.10-11)
The Catholic Church is not a country club with an "exclusive membership". The church is for everyone.
Only if they actually participate in her program of worship. The Catholic Church is not for those who do not join her children in worship.
As I was taught, only God has the right to judge what is within someone's heart.
As to judging hearts, that power has been given to the pastors of souls (St. Luke 22.30, Acts 20.28, St. Matthew 18.15-17, Hebrews 13.17, etc.), which is why they can both forgive sins and also refuse to give absolution, as well as bind and loose souls from obligations.
Amen!
May I add -- Only God has the ability to judge what's in someone's heart.