The come to Detroit because we scare the crap out of them.
Two of our parishes are churning out Priests who are enlightening the faithful as to the ways of the True Church. We pop them out and they go to other parishes where things get much more orthodox and these brave young men are not afraid to speak the truth from the pulpit.
http://www.assumptiongrotto.com/
http://www.saintcyrils.org/
(Grotto is close to downtown but Cyrils is in the burbs and growing by leaps and bounds)
We are also huge Homeschooling communities who have *gasp* more than two children. Without schools but educating with Catechism that will knock your socks off. The first generation of homeschoolers here are having their own kids and raising them Catholic with a capital C.
These libs are horrified.
They hate us, they are totally scared of us.
Great to hear your community is doing so well there.
I think by and large Catholics are have been little late to the game on homeschooling but (around here, at least) they seem to be getting involved. Our oldest kids went to Catholic schools but I was not impressed with the “Catholicness” of their education. Now we have a 3 year old who will be homeschooled and my wife has found a nice network of Catholic homeschool moms who are helping her get started.
If you have any secrets or resources that would help us out let us know. We have a lot of education stuff but little of the Catholic variety.