Symposium: Raising Catholic Kids

The Challenge of Rooting Family in Faith

November 25, 2013

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'Now and Then I Feel It's Working'

J. Peter Nixon in the first in our series: "I have tried to live my faith in a way that would make it attractive to my children. Now and then I feel it’s working."

By J. Peter Nixon

November 19, 2013

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'Grace Helps Them Through'

We are that family, the one with the very young, very active children who decided to come to your quiet, even somnolent Mass. We did not sit in the crying room.

By Liam Callanan

November 20, 2013

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'The Habit of Gratitude and Hopefulness'

To put it in Vatican II terms, our vocation is to help our children discern their vocation.

By Christopher C. Roberts

November 20, 2013

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'Not All Religious Learning Happens Explicitly'

The spirituality at the heart of each child cries out to be nourished; helping children develop their sense of wonder through play will go far in this regard.

By Eleanor Sauers

November 25, 2013

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'Be Who You Are and Be That Well'

Our backgrounds were different, but our Catholic identity ran deep, with Irish-Catholic roots spreading in almost every direction.

By Peter Leibold and Liz McCloskey

November 25, 2013

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'Learning Humility, Learning Patience'

Every poll shows the nonreligiously affiliated—now called “nones”—increasing in number. That number includes all my grown children. But it wasn’t always this way.

By Sidney Callahan

November 25, 2013

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