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[quote=Anonymous]We are Catholic and said kids should go through Confirmation and after that, it is up to them.  As a sponsor, I had to attend a Confirmation 'retreat" last weekend.  The speaker had some good messages but I had a hard time getting over her focus on sins and telling a room of 8th graders that maturation is a sin.  She wasn't even an old speaker.  Sorry to go off topic but I find the Catholic church harder to defend to my kids everyday.

Anyway, with our approach our older kid who is 16 no longer attends unless it is a family event.  Our kid who is currently getting confirmed says he will definitely still attend but not miss travel tournaments for mass.  Some our all day Sat and Sun.

I would probably encourage my teens to attend more if we had a more liberal parish nearby or perhaps we need to find a different Christian religion.  Our local Catholic churches have made a point to say that lgbtq people are "sinning" and any non-procreative sex is a  sin.  One is sending emails about the "evils" of yoga and meditation.  I can't see how the church still exists in a few decades.[/quote]

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