[Desdemona]

I heard a conversation on this topic this morning and the gist of it was where does this priest get off saying such things when no one else is. At least two of these people are not strict in any fashion, but there was even questioning of the need for Penance.

Teaching has been abysmal for so long, even people who went to Catholic schools say this sort of thing. I was sort of speechless.

[NYer]

Teaching has been abysmal for so long,

It's absolutely frightening what we encounter in our small parish. And these are the 'lucky' ones whose families had the wherewithall to baptize their children. I think we would shudder to read the statistics on the number of "catholic" families that have never had their children baptized, much less catechized.