Well to extend that I'm not sure why you can't just leave someone home to take care of the sick and have someone else take the family to mass as well as become -Sorry for my lack of terminology here- one of the people who get qualified to bring communion to the sick.
Exactly. Call the rectory and a Eucharistic minister come to your house. They will never refuse you. I think they are called "Extraordinary Ministers".
What a bunch of f***ing crap.
You expect that a family which obviously has people (1) working outside the house, (2) shopping for things like clothes, groceries, etc., (3) children in school, cannot find time to go individually for ONE HOUR between 4 pm Saturday and 8 pm Sunday to go to a Mass somewhere nearby?
You seriously expect us to believe the entire family is homebound with the sick parent 168 hours per week?
If someone is the sole caregiver to a sick family member, that might be a problem. Usually there is someone who could stay with that person for one hour a week so you could get yourself and your family to Mass. There are volunteer orgainizations for the chronically ill who arrange for this! Or all they'd have to do is contact their Parish to see if someone in the Parish does this. I'll bet you there is!