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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a buffet Catholic and my kids go to Catholic school.  I think along many of your lines, OP.   My kids are about the same age as yours, and the bigger issues don't come up in elementary.  However; I'm just going to explain how I see it when I differ from the Church.

One issue came up, "they say pets don't go to heaven," and--look, OP, I don't even know if I believe in heaven or not, but I don't get into that--I tell them "I disagree with the Church on this issue; I think of course pets go to heaven!"

I think religion, like many other things in life, is a tool and some have used it for good and some for evil, and due to this, some abandon the tool altogether-which is fine.  But I think if you want to use it, make it work for you; use it to make your kids better human beings.  The Catholics I've met here have been a lovely bunch and I can live with some cognitive dissonance.

Regarding Episcopalian, what PP says has been my experience.  My DH is Episcopalian so our kids started out in an Episcopalian school and church.  It does feel Catholic-lite and I was very happy that the priests were often married or women or openly gay.  Our particular Ep. school/church was not a great fit for us (for reasons that don't apply here and different part of the country) and our local Catholic was great, so we switched.  I have to admit that it did feel like it was "coming home" on some weird level.[/quote]

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