As you know, I do not share your Catholic faith, but thank you for your comments. There are some Protestant traditions that have had a history of being more like what Baucham is calling the Church back to.

It is high time parents took back the responsibility God has given them to train up their children.

In His Service,

Shane

I have 4 young kids at home (age 7 to 7 months) and I need all the pep talks I can get. I’m also a Junior High CCD teacher at my local church; so I’ve been on the front lines fighting for young Christians to transform the culture instead of being swallowed up by it.

I’m not trying to preach here, but the Pastor’s talk reminded me of the main teaching that drew me into the Catholic church. It’s what the catechism calls the family as “Domestic Church”:

VI. The Domestic Church

1655 – Christ chose to be born and grow up in the bosom of the holy family of Joseph and Mary. The Church is nothing other than “the family of God.” From the beginning, the core of the Church was often constituted by those who had become believers “together with all [their] household.”166 When they were converted, they desired that “their whole household” should also be saved.167 These families who became believers were islands of Christian life in an unbelieving world.
1656 – In our own time, in a world often alien and even hostile to faith, believing families are of primary importance as centers of living, radiant faith. For this reason the Second Vatican Council, using an ancient expression, calls the family the Ecclesia domestica.168 It is in the bosom of the family that parents are “by word and example . . . the first heralds of the faith with regard to their children.
1657 – It is here that the father of the family, the mother, children, and all members of the family exercise the priesthood of the baptized in a privileged way “by the reception of the sacraments, prayer and thanksgiving, the witness of a holy life, and self-denial and active charity.”170 Thus the home is the first school of Christian life and “a school for human enrichment.”171 Here one learns endurance and the joy of work, fraternal love, generous—even repeated—forgiveness, and above all divine worship in prayer and the offering of one’s life.

“Fathers and mothers owe four things to their children: maintenance, instruction, correction, and most of all good example.” – St. John Baptist de la Salle

“The Church’s stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice in the day when they say: This is right, whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding… ” – Flannery O’Conner