-——I just don’t understand why so many of these young women blindly follow the crowd birth control abortion crowd, even when raised not to.-——
Looking back at my college years, I remember that few kids, even the ones who took their faith somewhat seriously, were very poorly formed.
The default, bottom-line belief was relativism. If it works for you, fine. If it feels good, it’s OK.
Most importantly, since they don’t possess a positive vision (they don’t know who they are or where they’re going —child of God whose object is Heaven) they default their way through their decisions, generally taking the path of least resistance.
They also pick up behavioral cues from a grab bag of sources: TV, magazines, peers, school, etc.
I was pretty confused myself at that age, having both Jesus and Mick Jagger as heros, not even recognizing the contradiction. I spent my twenties sorting things out, and figuring out what the hell happened.
We don’t do kids any favors by leaving them ignorant.
Very well stated - I wasn’t exactly on very firm ground in my college days myself. I have subsequently blamed much of it in the poor catechesis that was mostly just pop psychology with a few catholic words thrown in here that passed for formation. This was the Diocese of Rochester - the lack of understanding of the foundational truths that catholicism is based on is due to poor catechesis and is rampant today. I strongly suspect that this watering down was deliberately introduced by liberation theologian/marxist/atheist “theologians” who were trying to topple the church from within (and nearly succeeding),but that is another topic.
My 14 year old daughter’s religion class is fluff and very relativistic. The idea of a Truth that can be known is not taught - carefully avoided, in fact, in favor of the god of relativism as you point out. I only have her in it so she can make her confirmation so she can get married in the church. The important basics of the Faith (original sin, the Trinity, the Incarnation/Redemption/hypostatic union) I teach her myself.