Thomas Sowell says that up until the late 50s black families were proportionately more married and committed than white families. Involved and competent fathers teach sons to control themselves and daughters to value themselves. The US needs another Great Awakening.
I think it is conceivable that someone with the kind of disorder that gender dysphoria is could still attempt a chaste life of prayer as a hermit. (I do not see how involvement with a local theatre is compatible.)
There are online resources for Catholic and other hermits. But there's an important distinction between disorders and sins. It's not a sin to be homosexually inclined; it's a disorder. It's homosexual ACTS which are the sin. I think gender dysphoria is similar.
Steiner was brilliant, weird, and a heretic. When the Theosophists declared some Indian guy the 2nd Coming, he broke with them. Though there was a racist tinge to his thinking, the Nazis did not approve of him.
My kid did kindergarten through 8th grade and is a politcally conservative Catholic. She loved it and her teacher. She still communicates a lot with her teacher and her classmates.
I was on the scholarship committee. The applications confirmed my belief tnat, in our school at least, the parents were amomg the most immature, self-congratulatory, and self-centered people I’ve ever known. The faculty was better but they all were hard left.
I think the pedagogy was quite good. Lots of other stuff gave me the heebie-jeebies
You’ll get no fight from me. Teaching is aeak and spiritual practice often misshapen or neglected. The parent in question was so wholeheartedly Pelagian that there was open disagreement with St. Paul.
Currently wnduring physical therapy ans realising again that “solace” like “comfort” USED to mean something like “strengthening,” and now means something like “soothing.”
There's a little possibility of confirmation bias there.
Anecdote. An elderly (even older than I — imagine!) lady in my former congregation lost a grandson to murder. She was ashamed to ask for help. She reproached herself for not being stronger. Reasonable people of good will may differ, but to me the reluctance to seek professional secular help prolongs a lot of illness.
As the survivor of a devout Anglican sadistic narcissist parent and, therefore, the “consumer” of a BUNCH of pshrinks’ services, I'm here to tell yo that therapy ain't solace in any simple sense.