Richards Blog has more to say on parents who ‘aren’t with the program’

He’s not kidding. I spent six years as a CCD teacher and found it hard to teach children who were taken to Mass so little. And you can’t yell at second graders for not going to Mass - it’s really not their fault. (My all time favorite was the time I asked the class who had noticed the new Paschal candle on Easter. One boy said, “We couldn’t go to Church, we were in Ocho Rios.”) I usually walked out of class feeling like Charlie Brown when he got a rock while trick-or-treating - disappointed but resigned.