Expert: Tom Schott - 11/25/2009

Question
I am raised Baptist and my ex-wife is Pentecostal.We are sending our girls to a Catholic school, they will attend mass every Friday and have religion as a daily class. How much will this confuse them , they are 8 and 7 we are thrilled with school but also want to prepare her for the difference ( that they can understand ) so they are not feeling uncomfortable with the teaching,confession, kneeling, rosary. We want they to learn other Christian faiths but also we want them to know that Pentecostal is there base religion....

Answer
Curtis,

I don't think there's much danger of confusion. My understanding is that Catholic schools are sensitive to the religious traditions of all their students and respectful of them. It's not like it used to be when everybody was trying to convert everybody else.