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Dear friend,
Try and find a Catholic youth group and have your daughter join that instead. Then you can tell your relatives:
- she has found a youth group that is Catholic and is going to that, or
- even encourage her to be active in leading some Catholic youth activities at your parish, because she's a little older that the teens.
Something like Life teen could work.
If you can't find another outlet that provides a ready alibi, take action like a clever politician would:
- Affirm her good work and how much she must love the Lord
- Say: Sometime I'll have to come by. (but make no commitments)
- Have your daughter visit, say what a wonderful thing she is doing, but explain how she is looking for something a little different, and perhaps then talk about finding something Catholic — so as to bring more fellowship to her own church youth, etc.
The bottom line is, embrace what it good, maybe use it as a model to do something good, and avoid a theology conflict, because your family relationships are too important to let that become a wedge. So think political, equivocate, placate, patronize and kick the can down the road as far as debates go.
Your willingness to emulate what she considers a critical way to reach young people about Jesus will do more than words ever could to show that Catholics are people of faith (in action) too.
Peace,
Bob Kirby
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