To the contrary. It is you who seems to have not read the thread carefully. According to the member of the parish reporting this incident, (Slyfox) they were not misled at all. They did this on their own, and it was a surprise to the parents and to the leaders that prepared them for Confirmation, as well as to the priest. Slyfox has repeated this information a half a dozen times. It is you who are refusing to understand his meaning.
As for my husband, I was making fun of his reason for choosing the name, Carl. (He was 12 years old at the time.) Acquiring the initials ABCD seemed like a trivial reason for choosing a particular Saint's name. I guess I should have put large SARCASM tags on the end of that sentence. I thought my meaning was obvious, but apparently I was mistaken.
As for myself, since I was confirmed as an adult I didn't even get to choose a new name so I spent no time thinking about it. I just had to make do with one I already had. (That was the rule at the time for adult Confirmations in the Diocese where I was living.)
You are belittling the sacrifice these young people have made. They could have chosen any Saint's name, but they chose to honor their Pastor by honoring his Saint. I imagine that they put more thought into this choice than most young people do when they choose their Confirmation name. At least they didn't call themselves "Ronaldus"!
I didn't misunderstand him(?), I simply don't believe him. The poster admits to being an "organizer" of a protest at this church, a protest which he admits has been at the center of a great deal of publicity. In so doing, he bears at least partial responsibility for even the unintended consequences that result from it. In the midst of such a highly charged environment, it would be impossible for catechumen's protest to be either spontaneous or independent.
You are belittling the sacrifice these young people have made. They could have chosen any Saint's name, but they chose to honor their Pastor by honoring his Saint. I imagine that they put more thought into this choice than most young people do when they choose their Confirmation name.
You contradict yourself. If they really "put more thought into this choice than most young people do when they choose their Confirmation name" and in so doing "chose to honor their Pastor by honoring his Saint" than there was no "sacrifice" for me to belittle. Not only do you need to read more carefully, you need to reason more carefully.