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[quote=Anonymous]I do like Pope Francis, but he needs to STEP UP here, and step up NOW.

My Episcopalian DH says that the Catholic Church seems hell-bent on committing suicide.  At the time, he was referring to the Confirmation program that our DD is in out here in Los Angeles, which is so poorly run and the timing (high school out here) is so tone deaf with respect to other things going on in their lives (college prep, and developmentally this age is pushing back) that it's damaged her desire to stay in the Church.

Now this BS...and Pope Francis's letter--ugh how about some anger and rage, not just "this is just so terrible, we've abandoned our little ones..."  How about some swift accountability here?

I'm going to talk to my DD today about all this.  She's already been contemplating becoming Episcopalian, and I'm ok with that, but we have just a few months left on the Confirmation schedule, so I was hoping she could just stick it out.  But with this new crap, I just don't know.

I just want to say to Catholic parents who struggle over the issues of raising kids Catholic or not; here is the rub:  Your KIDS are going to decide.  The Church is so "off"--bad enough no married priests, no women priests, the gay stance, the no birth control stance that most of us ignore, all that....but now THIS.  The upside to our local church is the priests, nuns, and parishioners are great, and our elementary school was great....but the combo of a crummy Confirmation program and the situation with the larger world-wide Church is so overpowering that it obliterates the local level goodness.

I was reading (Catholic) Hugh Hewitt's column in the WaPo and he's right.   
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-con-man-in-the-cardinals-cap/2018/08/22/f7e60518-a57e-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html?utm_term=.d8b7c7e8c6fb

Obviously, I know what most non-Catholics and former Catholics think.  I'm interested in what Catholics think.  If you are Catholic and you think I am off here, I'm interested to hear what you have to say.  It would make me feel better.  If you are Catholic and agree, I'd like to know that too.[/quote]

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