10-15-2003, 03:46 AM
I think the problem lies with your local parish rather then the entire Catholic Church because I've never been taught the wishy-washy stuff your daughter was taught and I've belonged to parishes all over the world. I've had some friends that have very similar experiences as you but they aren't the majority. Every time they tried to find out why they were taught what they were taught it could be traced back to the parish, not the acctual teachings of the Church. They have remained unchanged. Blaming the whole Church for the mistakes of individual parishes isn't the right path to follow.
I realize that you are no longer Catholic so this doesn't really matter. I just wish for you to see how these problems are localized in parishes with wishy-washy modern religious classes, rather then thinking that the acctual teachings of the Church have been changed. They haven't. Yet some people change them on their own and teach them as if they were teaching the Truth, when they aren't. It's a sad reality.