“Why do Catholic parishes insist on having CFF classes on weeknight so...Why not on Sunday mornings the way Protestants do Church school?”
I agree and I’d go further. I think there should be a Mass every Sunday that Sunday School kids attend and go straight to class from — and attendance at BOTH should be mandatory every week. In addition, the Mass should be just for the Sunday School kids (and their parents) and for any Catholic school kids who would like to attend that particular Mass (because it’s mostly kids).
When my son was in public school, he went to (Catholic) Sunday school and I was appalled at how many of the other children’s parents told me that they (the parents) almost never went to church themselves — they’d hang out in the church parking lot while Sunday School was going on — and that they almost never took their children to church. Seemed that figured their children’s attendance at Sunday School alone “counted” as Mass for the whole family.
That was the case in our religion classes 20+ years ago. I see it hasn’t changed at all.
I see a lot of the same; Filipinos seem to be the only adults taking young children to Mass. I take my children directly there from CCD, and rarely see any of their non-Filipino classmates.
What can the Church expect (in terms of treating failure to attend Mass as a sin) when the Church itself rarely criticizes sodomy or the adultery of divorced/remarried Catholics?