Is anyone else having problems (or have had problems) with Pre-Cana? From the beginning we have had issues. First, my fiance is not Catholic and is a widow, but the town his wife died in doesn't have their records digitized. So he had to take off work and go get the death certificate. We had called our parish and they gave us the list of paperwork to track down and said to call back when we had it all. I kept telling them some of it would be hard to find and could we please meet with the priest while we were tracking it down. The parish office kept saying no. So, after a few months and having to take time off work, we get it all. That is when they tell us that they only have mentor couples who speak Spanish and we would need to go elsewhere. I knew the parish was bilingual but it never occurred to me that they didn't offer all of the services in both languages. And this was the case for every parish we called because the side of town we live on is predominately immigrants. (This is not an anti-immigrant post, fyi. My grandparents are immigrants, they just never taught us their native languages.) We finally find a parish that would work with us and assigned us a mentor couple. Only to find out that we did not, in fact, have everything and we still needed the fiance's baptism records (even though we were told we didn't since he isn't Catholic). The problem is the Baptist church where he was Baptized has only 30 members, doesn't have a clerk, and most the congregation isn't on Facebook. Oh, and it is an 8 hour drive from us. So more vacation time has to be taken. Now we are having difficulty with our mentor couple. They never do anything they say they will on time and are constantly canceling meetings and not telling us until the last minute.
This is really long way of asking is there any other Catholic couples that are having these difficulties?
Thanks! Stesha
