Praying For Our Adult Sons And Daughters No Longer Practicing the Faith. An article in "Catholic Digest."

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This is a common lament amongst every religion these days. You could say it’s a battle between this world and the next…and this world is winning.

Who in America isn’t losing members? They all are.
 
I think part of the problem is that a lot of grown up Catholics seem to utterly suck at talking to younger people. I have a friend who pretty much abandoned the Church - and I recently explained to him my reasons for not abandoning it - and how I simply tuned out a lot of the things that our elders said - otherwise I would be with him.

He wanted to know what his incentive is to look past their drivel, to think that there might be something worthwhile behind it. Don’t really have a good answer for him.
 
Thanks, this was a nice article about what parents can do for their children.
 
“Their drivel?” I don’t understand what that mean, not that that is what the article/thread topic is about.
 
This proves people have free will. St Monica prayed for the conversion of St Augustine for 17 years. Sometimes the best (maybe the only) thing to do is to pray.
 
Nobody is going to write an article on how many of those young people who drift away might drift back when the parents and half the other people they know are dead, or when they’re on their own deathbed.

Nobody but God cares about that. But fortunately, God’s the only one who has to care.
 
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He wanted to know what his incentive is to look past their drivel, to think that there might be something worthwhile behind it. Don’t really have a good answer for him.
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Well, it sounds like you have something to learn and work at then, because if you yourself don’t have a good answer then it seems rather unfair of you to criticize older people for not knowing how to talk to young people, when you can’t do it yourself.
 
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You might suggest he try a little humility, and perhaps even…respect?

Perhaps you worded his sentiments overly harshly, but if this is what he really says and thinks, his own arrogance will very much block any spiritual insights that he might otherwise have gained. “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble”. A true search for God must be done in humility.
 
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