Catholic Dads

In this series of posts, I will be focusing on keeping kids Catholic. Just to be really clear about this, I don’t believe in helping kids decide what’s best for them – and if that’s Catholic, fine. I do believe that the Catholic Church is the one true Church founded by Christ to continue and apply His great work of salvation. For that reason, remaining Catholic isn’t something I would prefer my kids to do. It’s something I see as core to my role as their father.

It’s a subject I feel very strongly about, for a number of reasons. My parents were both converts, and raised a large family. Some of us stayed in the Faith and some did not. That was a source of real sorrow to them. Likewise, I went to a Catholic School in London, England, run by Benedictines. Most kids there lost their Faith. I have many Catholic friends with kids older than ours. Some of them have helped all their kids keep their Faith (and nurtured vocations to the religious life); others have seen some kids keep their Faith and others lapse; and some others have had kids leave the Faith and then re-discover it.

I have watched all this with great interest, keen to learn what I can. As I write, I have 4 kids: Antonia (19) is at University, and Bernadette (17), Charlie (14) and Dominique (11) are all at school. At present (though I don’t want to tempt Providence) all are still keen on their Faith.

So in these posts I hope to explore what I think I have learned from my own and others’ experience; reflect on some of the underlying theology of being a Father and raising Catholic kids; and stimulate some discussion with readers of this blog: I don’t claim to know all the answers by any means, and am keen to learn as I go: raising Catholic kids is a project with eternal consequences!

PS Ben Trovato is not my real name, and likewise I have made up my wife’s and kids’ names. I do not think it fair to write about them in a way that may get very personal, if they can be identified.

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