She left our home a Republican, married a “genius” and moved to Seattle. She is so far left now she is off the map. Literally everything I think she now thinks the opposite. From trans kids (give them early hormone blockers), climate change will kill us, pro Palestine (though I don’t know WHAT to think anymore), etc. She was raised catholic and is now an atheist. We are beside ourselves.
She left our home a Republican, married a “genius” and moved to Seattle. She is so far left now she is off the map. Literally everything I think she now thinks the opposite. From trans kids (give them early hormone blockers), climate change will kill us, pro Palestine (though I don’t know WHAT to think anymore), etc. She was raised catholic and is now an atheist. We are beside ourselves.
This could be my daughter's story too though she married a really nice young man but I think he lets her call the shots. She got "radicalized" in undergrad and then in grad school. She, too, was raised Catholic - all the Sacraments, went to Mass weekly and on Holy Days. Prayed the Rosary, even attended Latin Mass when I used to sing in the TLM choir. We made faith central to our lives, but I honestly don't think we were overbearing or strict about it. She was in the middle of marriage prep and about 2 months before her scheduled wedding in the Church, when she announced she "didn't agree with the Church's teaching on gender" and couldn't get married in it. She pretty much stopped using any "gendered" language and she doesn't refer to either me or my husband as mom and dad anymore because that is gendered. All we can do, Colleen, is pray and pray some more. I spend my days just begging the intercession of any Saint who will listen but especially our Mother Mary who had her heart pierced too. I will pray for you Colleen and for your daughter and all the misguided kids who have sold their birthrights for pottage.
She left our home a Republican, married a “genius” and moved to Seattle. She is so far left now she is off the map. Literally everything I think she now thinks the opposite. From trans kids (give them early hormone blockers), climate change will kill us, pro Palestine (though I don’t know WHAT to think anymore), etc. She was raised catholic and is now an atheist. We are beside ourselves.
This could be my daughter's story too though she married a really nice young man but I think he lets her call the shots. She got "radicalized" in undergrad and then in grad school. She, too, was raised Catholic - all the Sacraments, went to Mass weekly and on Holy Days. Prayed the Rosary, even attended Latin Mass when I used to sing in the TLM choir. We made faith central to our lives, but I honestly don't think we were overbearing or strict about it. She was in the middle of marriage prep and about 2 months before her scheduled wedding in the Church, when she announced she "didn't agree with the Church's teaching on gender" and couldn't get married in it. She pretty much stopped using any "gendered" language and she doesn't refer to either me or my husband as mom and dad anymore because that is gendered. All we can do, Colleen, is pray and pray some more. I spend my days just begging the intercession of any Saint who will listen but especially our Mother Mary who had her heart pierced too. I will pray for you Colleen and for your daughter and all the misguided kids who have sold their birthrights for pottage.