Posted on 10/27/2016 8:51:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
With recent well-publicized protests from parents of Catholic school students to the firestorm over new sex-education materials published by the Vatican, things only seem to be growing more intense, leaving many faithful Catholic parents looking for answers.
The issue of sex education in Catholic schools has been hotly debated for decades, but with recent well-publicized protests from parents of Catholic school students to the firestorm over new sex-education materials published by the Vatican, things only seem to be growing more intense, leaving many faithful Catholic parents looking for answers.
A group of parents recently raised an alarm over sexually graphic pictures and explicit text being included in their 14-year-olds’ sex-education course at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
The graphic drawings and detailed information go over the line, say some parents. “What I’ve seen is disturbing,” said one parent, James Bowman, who texted a number of pictures to the Register from the course material that are not fit for print.
While Bowman is careful to say there is “some good information” included in the program, “it doesn’t follow Catholic doctrine,” in that it is far too explicit, especially for a coed setting.
So what is the traditional Catholic teaching on Catholic sexual education?
Pope Pius XII, in his 1951 address “To Fathers of Families,” warns against any program, Catholic or otherwise, which “exaggerates out of all proportion the importance and significance of the sexual element. ... Their manner of explaining sexual life is such that it acquires in the mind and conscience of the average reader the idea and value of an end in itself, making him lose sight of the true primordial purpose of matrimony, which is the procreation and upbringing of children, and the grave duty of married couples as regards this purpose.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
“Growing in Love” redux..Remember that Catholic Sex Ed Debacle?
As mentioned in a related thread, note that Mark 7:7-13 shows that Jesus reprimanded the Pharisees and teachers of the law for interfering with parental authority, thus nullifying the 5th Commandment to honor your father and mother as indicated in verses 10-13.
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