How to Create a Future ex-Catholic Kid

A practical guide to raising a fallen away Catholic

Help me they're all crazy Photo by Kathy Copeland Padden

My birth was the catalyst for a gazillionty family arguments. My parents were just one generation removed from Northern Ireland, and their folks carried the religious strife across the Atlantic with them.

My paternal great-grandfather was a British soldier from Enniskillen, Fermanagh…