“What do I do if my parents won’t take me to Confession?”
Those of us who have taught catechism classes, and heard questions like this, become aware of a strange paradox. Most of the students attend only because their parents force them to, but those same students get no reinforcement of the Faith at home. The parents hand their children over to the parish for one hour a week of what they presumably reckon to be ethics and respectability training. For the rest of the week, the children are at the mercy of the catechesis of the world.
