Why Catholics are leaving the faith by age 10 – and what parents can do about it

cna ^ | September 5, 2016 | Matt Hadro

[heterosupremacist]

Re : Post #56 ~ And is there some reason you wish to expose the service of the altar to public scorn?

Wow! ~ THAT WAS NOT what I intended to suggest. Pardon me if I was unclear in my post...

[Elsie]

Young Catholics are leaving the faith at an early age – sometimes before the age of 10 – and their reasons are deeper than being “bored at Mass,” the author of a new report claims.

Well; by the age of ten they know how to do searches on the 'net.

So they do.

Finding out OTHER things about your 'church' can have upsetting results.

Young Bereans: GOD bless them!

[Elsie]

Light ten candles and say 20 Hail Marys...

[Mrs. Don-o]

If that's not what you intended --- well, it did seem unlike you, I know you to be a good guy, and I don't take offense where none was intended.

It just sounded scornful of being an altar server.

But --- OK. I misspeak sometimes, too, and I benefit from being corrected.

Peace be with you, for sure.

[freedumb2003]

>>God created the universe and everything in it, including all the scientific laws that scientists are discovering.<<

Yep — the more learn the more we learn there is so much more to learn.

In understanding science we get a tiny fragment of His awesomeness.

[Secret Agent Man]

God not only created everything, He understands everything perfectly. That makes Him the best scientist and inventor, among other things, anywhere and everywhere.

[Mark17]

Young Bereans: GOD bless them!

I know lots of "Bereans" here. God bless them.
By the way, the death toll in the terrorist attack, is up to 14 now. I don't know how many injured, but I think it's around 60. Sad.

[heterosupremacist]

Et cum spiritu tuo.

I publicly and sincerely apologize for my carelessness/insensitivity ...

[Coleus]

sounds like the kids are being brainwashed by social darwinism in the schools...stalin was actually a seminary student until he read darwin..

the catholic church promoted science, the more you understand science, the more you understand God. Pasteur prayed the rosary.

[winner3000]

(they find the faith “incompatible with what they are learning in high school or at the university level.” )

Enough said. The brainwashing of kids is working for the liberals/atheists.

It would help if the Catholic Church taught from the Bible more, instead of these crazy traditions that are not in the Bible.

[winner3000]

(they find the faith “incompatible with what they are learning in high school or at the university level.” )

Enough said. The brainwashing of kids is working for the liberals/atheists.

It would help if the Catholic Church taught from the Bible more, instead of these crazy traditions that are not in the Bible.

[Romulus]

What a nasty person you must be.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I think I see now what happened. You were responding to #3, but #3 was removed by the moderator, so I never saw what #3 originally said.

But evidently it was #3 who said that Catholic kids "leave the faith" at age 10 because they think they'll be expected to be altar boys by age 11.

And maybe the post went on to something worse than that, because comments don't usually get pulled by the mods unless they're really offensive.

So, long story shot, *you* didn't say anything offensive, you were merely quoting (and criticizing) the guy at #3.

I am very sorry I accused you wrongly.

I apologize. I goofed.

The abashed

Mrs Don-o

[af_vet_1981]

And it is losing Catholics at a young age. “The interviews with youth and young adults who had left the Catholic Faith revealed that the typical age for this decision to leave was made at 13,” Gray wrote. “Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed, 63 percent, said they stopped being Catholic between the ages of 10 and 17.

Number one reason: unresolved sexual sins coincident with teenage rebellion and substance abuse; not unlike other faith communities

[Old Yeller]

Sorry you were not man enough to move on, but if you may like it - or if you may not; if you were Baptized by a Catholic Priest on God’s Holy Altar, then you are - and ever shall be a Catholic.

Unless you want to make a comment on a Catholic Caucus thread. Then you don't qualify.

[onedoug]

Latinae studium sit et latius.

Bonum nocte.

[AlaskaErik]

I’m not mad. But why are you posting a graven image? Oh, I forgot. Catholics made up their own commandments.

[AlaskaErik]

You’ll only find more of what drove you away. In the meantime, try to lose the bitterness.

I wasn't driven away. I never belonged. And I'm not bitter. My mother tried to foist an abomination on me and I didn't fall for it. I moved on a long time ago and catholicism will never be a part of my life. In fact, everyone in my family rejected catholicism. Now that my mother is dead there isn't a single descendant of hers that is a catholic. Not one.

[AlaskaErik]

Sorry you were not man enough to move on, but if you may like it - or if you may not; if you were Baptized by a Catholic Priest on God’s Holy Altar, then you are - and ever shall be a Catholic.

I did move on. That's why I'm not a catholic. And only a profoundly ignorant person would consider me a catholic forever. I suppose you believe that a person forced to convert to islam at the tip of a sword is forever a moslem. This is just one of the issues I have with catholicism. Zealots like you live in a sick, warped and twisted world of darkness. You're the one that needs help, not me. You need to see the light. I saw it a long time ago and moved forward.

[AlaskaErik]

I feel sorry for you. You’re really effed up.

Really? Because I didn't buy the party line and I moved on with my life? People with your way of thinking are really going to help out your lost cause.