Question 1
a)Do you know what the Bible teaches about family life?
Yes
No
What does the Bible say about family life?
Do you know what the Church teaches about family life?
Yes
No
What does the Church teach about family life?
Is it hard to do what the Bible teaches about family life?
Yes
No
Is it hard to do what the Church teaches about family?
Yes
No
What are the hard things about living family life like it says in Bible or Church teaches?
b) Do you learn about Church teaching on family life from Australian church?
Yes
No
Do you learn about Church teaching on family life from Perth church?
Yes
No
What do you learn about family life from Australian Church and Perth church?
Do you agree with this teaching on family life?
Yes
No
Do you ignore this teaching on family life?
Yes
No
Do you criticize this church teaching?
Yes
No
Why do you not believe the Church’s teaching on the family life?
c)Do people in the community know about Church’s teaching about family life?
Yes
No
Do people in the community say negative things about the Church’s teaching about family life?
Yes
No
Why do people in the community not follow Church’s teaching on family life?
QUESTION 2
a)We are human, created by God. How does human nature help us choose how we see marriage in our
society?
How does our knowledge of how our ancestors thought about marriage help us to look at marriage?
b)Do you think that baptised people accept that there is a natural law about marriage?
Yes
No
c)How does the pattern of family formation today challenge ideas of natural marriage is between a man
and a woman?
d) If a person who is Catholic does not go to Church but wants to get married in the Catholic church how
can the Catholic church help them?
QUESTION 3
a)How does the Catholic Church help people to prepare for marriage today?
Does this help parents and families?
Yes
No
Do you understand that the family is like a very little church?
Yes
No
b)Do you pray together as a family?
Yes
No
Is it easy to pray together as a family?
Yes
No
c) Is it easy For Christian families to be strong and live good lives?
Yes
No
d)Do you know any church groups that help parents and families to be strong?
Yes
No
e) How can parents and families show how to be good parents and Christian family today?
f) Does the Catholic Church provide support for parents in understanding about Christian family life?
Yes
No
Does the Catholic Church help parents in crisis?
Yes
No
QUESTION 4
a)Do you know people who try to live together before they get married in your Church?
Yes
No
b) Do you know of people who are living together and not married in the church or by the state
Yes
No
c) Do you know of separated couples or couples divorced and remarried in your church?
Yes
No
How are these people helped in your church?
Do you know people who are baptised and who are separated?
Yes
No
Do you know people who are divorced and married again?
Yes
No
d)Do you think that the Church does not care about people who are divorced and married again?
Yes
No
Do you think that people who try out marriage don’t care about the Church?
Yes
No
Do you think that people who are separated care about the Church?
Yes
No
Do you think that people who are divorced and marry again care about the Church?
Yes
No
e)Do you know any divorced and married again people want to go to Communion and to Confession
(Reconciliation)?
Yes
No
f) Could the Church make it easy for people to have their marriage finished?
Yes
No
How could this happen to make it easier to finish marriage?
QUESTION 5
a)Can people of same sex get ”married” in your State?
Yes
No
b) What does the Catholic church think about the state letting people of same sex get “married”?
What does the Catholic church think about people same sex getting” married”?
c) Does the church help people who chose to “marry” people same sex?
Yes
No
If people same sex get “married” and adopt children does the church help them teach their children
about faith?
Yes
No
How does church help people same sex who “marry” and have adopted children so that they can learn
about church?
QUESTION 6
a)Do you know how many children who are born of people living together and not married?
Yes
How many?
No
Do you know how many children who are born of people who are married?
Yes
How many?
No
b)
c) How does the church help people living together and not married or people divorced and married
again to teach their children how to be a catholic?
d)How does the church prepare and celebrate and follow up with people living together and follow up
with people who are divorced and married again?
QUESTION 7
a)Do you know about Church teaching on “Humanae vitae” on responsible parenthood for parents?
Yes
No
b)Do you know the different ways to plan how many children to have?
Yes
No
c)What are the natural ways that the Church encourages parents to plan the number of children they
have?
d)When people living together and not married or for people divorced and remarried when they go to
church for mass or confession are they welcome?
Yes
No
e)Is the Church teaching on how to plan the number of children you have different from the state way of
planning the number of children you have?
Yes
No
Do you think parents should be encouraged to have more children?
Yes
No
How do you think this should happen?
QUESTION 8
a)Jesus grew up in a family where he learned to be human. How can families help each other to become
what God wants them to be?
b)What stops family members from seeing Jesus in the family?
c)When family members find it hard to believe, how does this change the family or change what
happens in family?
QUESTION 9
Do you want to say anything more about parents and family life and the Church?