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No problems Jaycee. But if it comes to be hypocritical by having our sons baptised or having to listen to the mother-in-law banging on and on... I'll be happy to be labelled a hypocrite anyday :D.

Just speaking for hubby and myself, we never implied to his mother that we "believed as she did". She knew that we didn't. That didn't stop her banging on and on and on about "when are you going to have him baptised?" She is a master manipulator. We had our first-born baptised, and did feel...

I'm so glad that you have this issue sorted. I really don't enjoy the situation where I am not sure of which way I am going on an issue, and cannot settle down to "normal" life when I am worrying about such things. So, well done on getting it sorted and being able to carry on with things.

Not at all. I just think that when it comes to school, religion is not the first reason why people chose a school. It certainly wasn't for us. I'm not trying to annoy or upset anybody, but I enjoy hearing what others think of this topic. It certainly is a polariser. I suppose that is why...

You clearly haven't met my mother-in-law ;):D When my husband's 56 year old sister was about 18 she put her foot down, decided she wasn't going to church that Sunday. She said she waited all week and (seriously) thought she would die, such was the pressure from her mother. When she was still...

You don't say...

I would guess that the majority of children in any religious school come from familities who don't attend church at all. I know that is my experience. We chose against the local catholic school due to religion being such a big part of things, at least when I went for the interview. Daily mass...

With two sons bullied, one at co-ed private high school and both at state primary schools, the co-ed private high school dealt with it swiftly and effectively. The state primary school teacher did deal with the bullying but the headmaster and deputy swept other bullying incidents under the...

Just googled and picked this up from wikipedia - The word catholic (derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective καθολικός (katholikos), meaning "universal"[1][2]) comes from the Greek phrase καθόλου (kath'holou), meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in...

I thought someone with catholic taste meant they had "ordinary" taste, mainstream.

That is if you belief that stuff...

I also was surprised at the fees mentioned being so cheap for Catholic schools. I know they generally are half to two-thirds (at lease when I was looking) but our Anglican school this year is $8.5K and the local Catholic girls school is $6.5K so I'm not sure how many Catholic schools are still...

Our local Catholic girls high school must take 10% of non-Catholic students, spread over the whole five years of high school. I suppose that is something to do with their funding, but if there are a lot of Catholics in the year your child wants to start or if there are already 10% non-Catholics...