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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole conversation is silly. You can have religious education by *integrating* religion into math, reading, science, social studies, etc. Kill two birds with one stone. For example, use religious texts to teach reading. Use religious examples to teach math. Teach the wonder of God’s creation through science. And so on.

The notion that Catholic education “requires” weekly mass or repetitive sacrament prep *during the school day* is absurd, lazy, and old-fashioned.

How many kids — especially younger kids — get anything out of mass during the school day? If you want a true “Catholic education,” there are better ways to do it. Does Notre Dame or other Catholic colleges require weekly Mass during classes? Why not? Are they providing an inferior “Catholic education”?  [/quote]

If you call the celebration of Mass (at anytime of the week) “absurd, lazy, and old fashioned” you truly do not understand what the significance of Mass is in Catholicism. [/quote]

I guess colleges like Notre Dame and most Catholic high schools are just heretics then. None requires students to attend mass on a weekday, every week, during school hours. Mass is for SUNDAYS, with family. Not at 9 am on weekdays during school. [/quote]

So don’t send your kids to a parochial school?  I don’t really understand your point here.  You have a choice, send your kids to public school and use CCD for their religious education.  Weekly mass at K-8 schools is part of the faith formation. I’m glad my kids have had the experience of attending weekly with their classmates.  If you don’t see the value, that’s fine. There are many other schools to choose from.  [/quote]

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