Catholic Mom: "The [Porn] Curriculum I Fought was Grooming Material to me and had No Place in a Catholic School"
As many times happens in the Catholic Monitor, a post in the comment section is as interesting as the original post. This is from Susan Skinner:
I fought this fight in my own Catholic High School. They kicked my son out. They cited the support of then Bishop Kevin Farrell. McCarrick’s old roommate.
The curriculum I fought was grooming material to me and had no place in a Catholic school.
My
son went to public school where they told me I was the first educator
and if I didn’t like the curriculum that was my right and they would
find something else for him. Everything is backwards and it feels like
the world has gone mad.
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Is Pornographic New Creation "Catholic" Sex Education why Catholic Students are no Different than Public School Students?
"A parent came to me saying
that one book of a seventh-grade class was pornographic in a X county
Catholic school. The book had stuff on how to put on condoms, and if
you urinate on a partner make sure you don't do it on the eyes or ears,"
Father X said...
... "The only place the
Catholic public school students are going to get the sexual moral
teachings of the Church on a continuous basis is at the pulpit," according to
Father X. He remembers former X Diocese Bishop X
saying, "For the vast majority of Catholics, the only religious talk
they will hear is the homily and the only literature they are going to
read is the bulletin. So, what does that tell you about their
importance?" Before Vatican II, it was the practice in the United States
for bishops to have syllabi or schedules for the year's parish homilies
where the specific moral and faith teachings were to be systematically
presented. Father X said that many priests have made a case that the
Church in America needs to return to the syllabi. - Catholic Monitor
Father X, a priest in the X Diocese who asked to remain
anonymous, said the document Pastoral Guidelines for Ministry to Homosexuals
in the Diocese of X contributes to the ethical confusion on
homosexuality among Catholic high school students because it has no
moral component. This diocese document claims "...individuals do not
choose and cannot change their sexual orientation, but must understand it
and integrate it into their life of faith and conscience."
"There
is a presumption in the diocese that homosexuality has a biological
basis," said Father X. "This, in part, originally came from the Kinsey
report, which lead to gay safe zones in the public schools and were
eventually followed by the Catholic schools. The problem is that a lot
of Catholic teachers and theologians feel that they need to filter the
Church's teachings according to their philosophical agenda or they won't
teach it."
According to James Likoudis, a nationally known
writer on catechetic and sex education, the reason Catholic high school
students are just as pro-homosexual as their secular counterparts is
that the relevant Church documents are filtered out. He said, "The
Vatican document The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality intended to
remove corrupting sex education programs in Catholic schools is a dead
letter in this country, as can be seen in the continued proliferation of
Catholic sex education programs in practically every diocese."
In
the diocese of X, there are similarities in what Catholic
students and students in public schools get. Frank Scanlon, a student at
X Catholic high school said, "They taught us about condoms, and if you
have sex use them."
Scanlon's
father said, "a lot of the kids consider their religion class a joke.
They had one priest who didn't want to impose the Catholic faith because
of the non-Catholics in the class. He didn't want to make them feel
uptight."
"A parent came to me saying that one book of a seventh-grade class was pornographic in a X county Catholic school. The book had stuff on how to put on condoms, and if you urinate on a partner make sure you don't do it on the eyes or ears," Father X said.
X organized a group of parents who meet with the principal and
pastor. The principal and pastor defended the teacher's right to use the
book. But when they went to the diocese superintendent of schools it
was found to be against the diocese's policy. The book was taken out
despite the teacher's complaints.
Parents in the Oakland diocese
had a different experience with a sex-ed program called New Creation.
Catholics United for the Faith, a Catholic information apostolate in
Steubenville, Ohio, has faulted New Creation for its "graphic
illustrations that offend against modesty and chastity;" for
"emphasizing information over formation;" and for "violating the latency
period."
In 1998, the principal of St. Bede's of the Oakland diocese
told parents that their children either had to attend the New Creation
classes or they would have to quit the school. When a reporter for the
Faith asked the superintendent of schools for the Oakland diocese, Anne
Manchester, if mandatory attendance at these classes contradicted the
guidelines in set forth in the Church's Educational Guidance in Human
Love, she responded the site (St. Bede's) could make the decision.
A
recent graduate of X high school, a public high school in X, Robert Davila said, "The school is diverse -- they have Hispanic
clubs and gay clubs. They demonstrate how to use condoms so you won't
get AIDS." The extent to which Catholic schools may run counter to
Church teachings is only one part of the problem since the vast majority
of Catholic high school students go to public schools. In the fall of
2000, Governor Davis signed legislation that went into effect on January
1 that mandated California public schools expose homosexuality,
bisexuality, transvestitism, transexuality, and other lifestyles to all
grade levels, including kindergarten.
"The only place the
Catholic public school students are going to get the sexual moral
teachings of the Church on a continuous basis is at the pulpit," according to
Father X. He remembers former X Diocese Bishop X
saying, "For the vast majority of Catholics, the only religious talk
they will hear is the homily and the only literature they are going to
read is the bulletin. So, what does that tell you about their
importance?" Before Vatican II, it was the practice in the United States
for bishops to have syllabi or schedules for the year's parish homilies
where the specific moral and faith teachings were to be systematically
presented. Father X said that many priests have made a case that the
Church in America needs to return to the syllabi.
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