Only 1 in 3 Catholic Parents Think It’s Very Important Their Children Share Their Faith, Survey Finds

Catholic News Agency ^ | 2/9/23 | Peter Pinedo

[marshmallow]

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 9, 2023 / 15:00 pm A little more than a third of Catholic parents say it is extremely or very important for their children to grow up to have religious beliefs similar to their own, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.

In the study released last month and expounded further in a Feb. 6 article, 35% of Catholic parents with children under 18 said it is extremely or very important for their children to grow up to share their religious beliefs.

In total, 65% of Catholics said it was either extremely, very, or somewhat important for their children to hold their Catholic beliefs as adults. Thirty-four percent of Catholics said it was not too important or not important at all.

Hispanic Catholics answered with slightly more enthusiasm with 39% saying it was extremely or very important that their children grow up to share their religious beliefs, while white and non-Hispanic Catholics registered at 29%.

Catholics recorded among the lowest enthusiasm for passing their religion to their children of any Christian denomination in the survey.

An even lower 29% of white non-evangelical Protestants said it is extremely or very important for their children to share their religious beliefs.

White evangelicals were among the highest, with 70% responding that it is extremely or very important for their adult children to share their religious beliefs. In other words, white evangelical parents are twice as likely as their Catholic counterparts to strongly believe their children should share their views on religion.

The only group that registered significantly lower enthusiasm overall was the religiously unaffiliated category, those self-identifying as atheist, agnostic, or nothing. Only 8% of this group said having their children share their beliefs was either extremely or very important.

[Bigg Red]

Very sad

[just Grace]

I’m in that one third.

[Antoninus]

The other 2/3 are not functionally Catholic. Let’s be real, here. It’s long past time to stop considering them such.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Wow.

[DannyTN]

What does that mean? Does only 1/3 think it important that their kids:

• are Christian?
• remain in the Catholic Church? as opposed to other Christian denominations?
• share every single belief such as views on Revelations, the Eucharist, birth control, etc?

[Prince of Space]

Only 1 out of 3 of my grown children still consider themselves Catholic. I did my part as a Catholic parent by taking them to Mass and catechism every week. However, you can lead a horse to water…but you can’t make him drink.

[dadfly]

why not just slap Lord Jesus in the face?

just an abomination to believe that as a parent.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

The other 2/3 are not functionally Catholic. Let’s be real, here. It’s long past time to stop considering them such.
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The vast majority of pew sitters are unaware that they are no longer parishioners of a Catholic Church because it is now the property of a new church created by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) known as the Conciliar Church. The remnant of the true Catholic Church has been driven back into the catacombs so to speak, although there are a growing number of Tridentine Mass communities such as the SSPX, the FSSP, and others around the world where faithful Catholics can still receive the sacraments and worship at the Holy Sacrifice of the Latin Mass.

[WellyP]

A creepy old Argentine man in a white dress, a funny headdress and is leader of a super wealthy money grubbing cult means nothing to me and never will! His followers claim is some relation to God hahahaha!

[stanne]

They’ll find out otherwise when it is too late.

[stanne]

“Only 1 out of 3 of my grown children still consider themselves Catholic”

When they choose this, and God allows free will, the problem ins- they will be judged as Catholics- on judgement day. Once they have receythe sacraments they are Catholic.

One does not go to God saying “I didn’t like all those rules so I consider myself not to be catholic”, and really expect God to respond the way people demand Him to respond

[AlaskaErik]

My mother tried to foist this garbage on us. None of us bought into it. Catholicism in our family died with her.

[daniel1212]

Catholics recorded among the lowest enthusiasm for passing their religion to their children of any Christian denomination in the survey.

evangelicals were among the highest, with 70% responding that it is extremely or very important for their adult children to share their religious beliefs. In other words, white evangelical parents are twice as likely as their Catholic counterparts to strongly believe their children should share their views on religion.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/02/06/70-of-white-evangelical-parents-say-its-very-important-that-their-kids-have-similar-religious-beliefs-to-theirs/

What is there to share if you have not been born again with its profound basic changes in heart and in life?

[daniel1212]

The other 2/3 are not functionally Catholic. Let’s be real, here. It’s long past time to stop considering them such.

Your judgment is irrelevant as a RC, since that call is up to leadership who manifestly considers Ted Kennedy Catholics to be members in life and in death, and which leadership - according to many clear papal statements - you are to follow, and not act like "Bible Christians" who determine the veracity of church teaching based upon your judgment of whether or not it is in conformity with historical church teaching.

But for us Bible Christians, historical church teaching is to mean the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels) in which distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest

And what is there to share if you have not been born again with its profound basic changes in heart and in life?

[daniel1212]

My mother tried to foist this garbage on us. None of us bought into it. Catholicism in our family died with her.

As with multitude others, I came out of it and into evangelical faith, by the grace of God, but what took the place for you all?

[Maris Crane]

Unless something has changed without notifying me, Catholics do NOT proselytize.

[Maris Crane]

Erik, do you really think it is “garbage?”

[daniel1212]

One does not go to God saying “I didn’t like all those rules so I consider myself not to be catholic”, and really expect God to respond the way people demand Him to respond.

Tell that to your leadership whom you are to follow, who manifestly treats even proabortion, prohomosexual public figures as members in life and in death (showing the Vatican's understanding of canon law).

They are your brethren, and you cannot leave (as I did as one raised devout and a weekly and HDO mass-going RC for about 6 years after becoming actually born again, and who later was led by God into evangelical faith) without being schismatic.

[stanne]

Did you tell them?