On occasion at our parish I have compared notes with other empty nesters, many of whom have grown children who went to the same Catholic grade and high schools as my kids, about our kids' current attitudes towards religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular.  The vast majority, maybe >90%, of our kids are nons leaving us all wonder what we did wrong. Should we have encouraged them less to think for themselves and more to accept doctrine without explanation?  We thought that we were raising them in the same way that we were raised to be lifelong Catholics...what could/should we have done differently?

The article notes "As a whole, this is a politically progressive group." but I have further noticed that this group is very sensitive to and insistent for social justice in the finest traditions of Catholic social teaching.  They embrace the substance, if not the style, of the Catholic Church in an exemplary manner.