catholic child

I am the mother of a Catholic child. I want him to have the best education possible. I want to send him to the Catholic School here but I found a few parents pretentious and the some kids just richies and that is not what we are. I found more kids in the neighborhood go to the school he is now in. My son needs a little extra help in the behavior dept and I found the school to be a little lacking in that area.

I am afraid by sending my son to the public school that he is going to be sanitized. No Halloween, Christmas, Easter talk, howboring.

And that he is going to grow up indoctrinatied with a false sense of tolerating the wrong things.

I am in the midwest and I hear that it is better here then in other areas of the country. Am I just setting my kid up to become a hood? Or should I send him back to the cath school where there is better disipline and teaching about the faith. I do school him at home about the religion part. But I am not doing it everyday unfortunately.

My children started Catholic school when my oldest entered 5th grade. She graduated last year and my youngest is a 4th grader.

It is a sacrifice, you will encounter snobby folks....but the education is completely worth it.

My #1 reason is: On 9-11, no one needed to ask permission to pray. It was a given.

I also live in the midwest.

2007-09-20 06:42:01 by Angelus

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The father is from africa and is not a Citizen yet. They had the child out of wedlock and there share parental rights. The father just informed her that the baptism is on the 23rd and they have been fighting over the godparents. She is Lutheran and wants her sister and brother-in-law to be the god parents. He is catholic and wants his family to be the godparents. She does not want her child baptized catholic will it Still happen?

Being baptized Catholic does not make it so, or Lutheran. Baptize is a symbol of one's dedication to God, which a child cannot do. They won't even have the mental ability to make that choice until almost 18. As for the choice of God Parents, that not even a choice the courts can address.

The issue of God Parents only arises if both of you were killed, which is rare, even if you were together. Not being together makes doe to calculations nearly impossible.

The child should be taught both religions, but not baptized in either, until they are old enough to make that choice.
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2009-08-12 20:04:30 by Enjoli

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Since 'catholic' means universal, I dont see why they should only spread their religion in that way in Ireland.

When the Catholic church finally lets the priests marry instead of forcing them to be celibate then you will see the child abuse in the church go down. That's my opinion.

2010-03-20 11:37:54 by egginbonce

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rejection as school is over-subscribed. nephew is 6th on waiting list. his pre-school is a 'feeder' nursery to the school. sent in appeal request stating that he's of ethnic background which nursery has many others like him, so has the school altho' allocated school is all-white. all his friends have gained places too, but they are Catholic tho'.
anyone with exp on this who could advise me if my nephew stands a chance at the hearing?
my sister wanted him to go to the best school in the town, and his nursery has always been a very good. took him 3mths to settle in due to his nervousness, only child, health probs, but has made v good friends there. his only contact with others are his parents' and this nursery, and so it'll be hard for him to have a good transition if he were to go to an all-white school with no recognisable friends of his. i've stated 3 reasons on the appeal form:-
school has good ethos+values that he'll benefit from (discipline!, friendliness, kindness, integrity);
he's of ethnic origin, and this preferred school has multi-cultural understanding;
his friends are going there, so it'll be devastating for him to be separated from them.

i am writing this on behalf of my sister who's English isn't that good.
my sister wanted him to go to the best school in the town, and his nursery has always been a very good. took him 3mths to settle in due to his nervousness, only child, health probs, but has made v good friends there. his only contact with others are his parents' and this nursery, and so it'll be hard for him to have a good transition if he were to go to an all-white school with no recognisable friends of his. i've stated 3 reasons on the appeal form:-
school has good ethos+values that he'll benefit from (discipline!, friendliness, kindness, integrity);
he's of ethnic origin, and this preferred school has multi-cultural understanding;
his friends are going there, so it'll be devastating for him to be separated from them.

i am writing this on behalf of my sister who's English isn't that good.
rene57:
i know that it is very common for these popular schools to reject even the Catholics, so I do appreciate the bias that these schools need to take when they have non- Catholics applying. i am of the opposite opinion to my sister tho' on this matter as my own daughter went to an average school (out of catchment but wasn't over-subscribed tho') but i brought her up in a way where she was v curious about the world around her, thus, she had a thirst for learning and did v well in her schooling. it all depends on the child's ability to learn. yes, environment is important too, from the school, and their family as well.
there was never any doubt that there was any racial discrimination on the LA's refusal of a place for him. it was purely that it has the highest ranking in the league table for primary schools in that area (Somerset, UK)

Sadly Catholic schools are finding it difficult to place all the children that apply into their schools as there are so many of them applying.
They are good schools and in some cases even catholic children have difficulty in getting placed in their chosen schools. I am sure that they are not discriminating against against the child because of his/her ethnic background but if you feel that they are then you need to bring this up with the school board at the appeal hearing. The Catholic religious spreads throughout the world and encompasses all colours and nationalities and if discrimination is there then it is certainly very very wrong. We are all equal in the eyes of God. Good luck I hope you get the child in the school and God bless. I am not Catholic myself but my daughter is trying to get her son into a Catholic secondary school and she too has been told that the school is over subscribed. She is pressing on though by taking her son to Mass in a Catholic church which even the priest there says that the Orthodox religion is the basis of the Catholic religion and the original Christian religion.

2009-02-06 03:06:34 by pinkskyinthecity

Lets say I adopted a child in India but was born into an Islamic community. Then I would adopt and raise that child Roman Catholic. Can I do that? Is it bad? What about a child that is Buddhist or Hindu?

<<Can I adopt and raise a child Catholic?>>

If you're Catholic yourself, you have to. You would not be fulfilling your obligation as a Catholic parent if you didn't teach your child(ren) the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church.


<<Lets say I adopted a child in India but was born into an Islamic community. Then I would adopt and raise that child Roman Catholic.>>

Yes, you would.
Raise the child Catholic, that is.


<<Can I do that?>>

As the adopted parent, absolutely you can.


<<Is it bad?>>

Not at all.


<<What about a child that is Buddhist or Hindu?>>

Same deal. Once you have adopted the child, you can raise him/her Catholic, regardless of whatever his/her former religions was. If it's an older child, elementary school-aged, you will have to explain to the child that he/she is now part of a Catholic family and will be raised as a Catholic.

Adopted children, especially when they come from very different cultures, might very well revert back to whatever religion is dominant in the child's culture of origin. That's okay, there's nothing wrong with that.

As a Catholic parent, you're job is to teach your child(ren) the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church. You can't force "Faith" on them though. That's up to God. If the child does eventually revert, don't think of it as any kind of failure on your part.

2008-11-11 10:22:10 by alipio