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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Using "immediately after confirmation" was the point where they get to decide seems to strange to me.

Confirmation should be the point, and if they don't want to continue, there should be no pressure to go through the confirmation process.  it's the very nature of the ceremony.

I get that there may be consequences, if as adults, they return to the church, but it feels like they already have a built-in point in the process where we say "okay, you were baptized by your parents, put in CCD by your parents, brought every sunday to church by your parents, but now, we are going to [b]confirm[/b] that you really want to do this going forward"

That seems like the right place to let them stop, not right after![/quote]

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