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Setting aside issues that are out of your control (order of the Sacraments).(source)First and foremost, you can pray. St Monica is a powerful intercessor for children who have left the faith, and a great role model as well!Second, speak with your child about why he (or she) doesn’t believe. Don’t try to persuade at first, just listen. Then pay attention to explaining to your other children why you believe, as opportunity presents itself.Third, make an appointment and speak with your parish priest. Explain your situation and your child’s situation. Depending on the age of the child, encourage him to speak with priest as well.Fourth, don’t oblige your child to anything more than a minimum: Sunday Mass and Catechism classes. Encourage him to continue to study why the Church teaches what it does, especially regarding a philosophical understanding of the existence of God. Encourage him to follow his conscience regarding the Eucharist and Confirmation.Fifth, pray. In the end, it is God who can change hearts, we can only plant the seeds.

Depends largely on the situation. But, mostly it comes down to you and what you think a Marriage is. If you think it’s a Contract, anything you’d like can be enough to break the Marriage. If you think it’s a Sacrament, there are not many thing that could end it, and even so the other party in this has to agree that the marriage, in fact, never took place.For instance, if your husband says, “I’m already married to another woman,” that’s grounds for Annulment. Annulment is an acknowledgement by the Church that a Marriage did not, in fact, take place, and therefore the Sacrament did not happen. If he says, “I just don’t like/love you,” sorry, but that is not grounds for Annulment; St. Monica was married to a lout of a Roman man, and obviously he didn’t love or like her enough not to cheat constantly on her, but she remained faithful to him.Because Marriage is a Sacrament FIRST. It’s only mankind who has turned it into a Contract, which can be easily broken. We’ve comically added the marriage vows from Judeo-Christianity on there, you know, out of tradition, but really, if you’re getting your vows from a Justice of the Peace, most of whom have no Bibles there anymore for political correctness (because they don’t believe in anything but whatever), then the vows ought to say:“Until death, or he’s bad in the sack, or you just don’t like him anymore, or whatever, do you part.”

I am not aware of any effort to change religious names of cities but there are incidents where statues/ monuments of crosses, Christ and saints have been removed from public land.California most definitely has the most cities named after saints or sacraments of any other state in the nation. But attempts to rename these cities seem nonexistent.For example. The statue of St Monica in a city park in Santa Monica remains but the statue of Father Junipero Serra was removed in a Los Angeles park.