Keeping Kids Faithful in Secular Schools

Pray for me.

For the first time since my children were in kindergarten, some of them will be attending secular schools this fall. We will soon find out how deep the formation is; if our indoctrination worked.

One will be a freshman at a large state university in California. There are transgender students in some of his classes—which is probably true for every school in America outside of Thomas Aquinas, Hillsdale, and the University of Dallas, but is a new one for him.

The other is transferring to a new high school, which is technically Catholic, but it’s like most Catholic schools in California: filled with children who are not Catholic. This means she will be one of the very few students who actually goes to mass every Sunday, and this is a kid who is accustomed to seeing her entire school and most of her teachers at mass on Sunday.

Both of these kids are weird religious fanatics compared to their classmates. They will be in the extreme religious minority, with all that that entails.

They are going…