[SoothingDave]

I personally think that Catholic parents are at least partly, and probably mostly to blame in not teaching and handing on the faith to their children.

Exactly. It is the parents who have the primary responsibility to raise up the children in the Faith. Your local parish school or CCD is to supplement the instruction the child should be getting at home. Not to suppplant it.

That's why you vow to raise up children in the Faith at your wedding and at each one's Baptism.

SD

[Desdemona]

You know, Dave, I don't think Catholics my age and younger know enough about the Faith to teach it. Everything has been so dismantled, a lot of people know "Don't eat meat on Fridays during Lent" but not why. Everyone goes to Mass on Ash Wednesday and the number that actually think it's really a Holy Day is astounding. The concept and real reason for Reconciliation (sp?) has been so distorted as to make it unrecognizable.

I'm tell you guys, I'm learning a lot here.