Michael Rota, a philosophy professor at the University of St. Thomas, spoke with OSV News about the role community-based faith formation programs can play in strengthening Catholic family life. Rota explained that opportunities for families to grow in faith together and build relationships with other Catholic families can help parents pass on their beliefs and encourage children to remain engaged in their faith as they grow older.
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Michael Rota, a philosophy professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, told OSV News he also thinks the ministry can help keep kids Catholic.
“There’s good reason to think that Trinity House Community meetings, and other gatherings like them, will help parents hand on the faith to their children,” he said. “Formation in community promotes most of the factors that make it more likely that kids raised Catholic will make the faith their own as adults – factors like increased religious activity, a deepening of faith-supportive peer relationships, and a sense of the importance of religious faith.”
