About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Greg Popcak discusses the alarming statistic of Catholic kids leaving the faith and shares 12 habits of families who successfully pass on their beliefs.

This stat should shake every Catholic father awake: 85 to 90 percent of kids raised in Catholic homes will leave the faith by adulthood. We've somehow accepted that as normal. It's not. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Greg Popcak, a Catholic counselor with over 30 years in the trenches and author of more than 20 books, to talk about what the families who beat those odds are actually doing differently. Greg walks me through the 12 research-validated habits that families who successfully pass on the faith all share in common, what he calls the Liturgy of Domestic Church Life. We get into why just dragging your kids to Mass and white-knuckling the family Rosary isn't enough if there's no joy behind it, why your kids need to experience the Faith as the source of the meaning in your home and not just the source of the rules. He breaks down what headship actually looks like when it's modeled after the ministerial priesthood rather than a dictator, and he tells a story from his time in Hong Kong about a father who tried to hug his daughter for the first time and she didn't even know what he was doing. Catholic Hom App — https://www.catholichom.com/ Catholic Counselors —…

People in this episode

Hosts: John Heinen, Devin Schadt

Guest: Dr. Greg Popcak

Topics covered

• faith retention
• Catholic upbringing
• family habits
• domestic church
• parenting
• counseling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Catholic Hom App, Catholic Counselors, EWTN

Books & works: More to Life, Books by Greg Popcak

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