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It's a long story but I think you can guess what happened!
It's a long story but I think you can guess what happened!
Saturday, 23 May 2009
" It would be better for him...
Picture & caption Fr Tim here
I personally can't do anything about abuse by the Irish or Americans, but abuse of my children through sex education..oh yes!
Btw I have to add that we do not have any sex education contrary to the Truth & Meaning of Human Sexuality in my childrens Primary. Living in the Diocese that produced & promoted & still does with full support of Archbishop Nichols, I am bound by conscience to speak out for the little children. I liked Fr Tim's post but I have to say we should all clean our own back yards too!
Safeguarding Teams!
The Safeguarding Team here
Perhaps you'd drop them a line asking that they 'safeguard' our children in their schools.
Friday, 22 May 2009
All That I Am ...programme installation...
Link here
All That I Am here Sex Education for Children by Archbishop Nichols to hit some Catholic Primaries in the next few weeks!!!
Supported by The Teenage Pregnancy Unit here
Some people have said to me..Jackie we're waiting to see...well I think they might have a long wait & in the meantime what about the 9 year olds NOW!!!!
Previous post here with 18 comments!
Abuse in Ireland & ( England today!!)
Fr Ray Blake writes here & below
I think every Catholic should read the terrible report on sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children in Ireland.
In other parts of the world similar abuse took place in similar institutions, in Ireland all took place under the heading of the Church, which more or less ran Irish social services.
I pose the question what about the abuse of our children under our very noses? Look at the sex education programme All That I Am. How priests can allow it in their Catholic primaries is beyond me. They should know better. All the fancy Liturgy, vestments, traditional Masses etc do not compensate for allowing these programmes in our schools. The children must come first!
I am left wondering why such ghastly things should have happened.
Was "child care" pre-1980s like this everywhere; brutality, violence, humiliation were part of even the best schools.
Is it a fault of the Catholic Church as a whole?
Is it the particular fault of the the Church in Ireland?
Is it something to do with Irish culture in particular?
I am also left wondering whether there are other areas of society, in Ireland especially, but also elsewhere, where similar acts of abuse took place.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Praying for our new Archbishop
The Church is very explicit about the qualities that must be present in a candidate to the episcopacy. He must be "a good pastor of souls and teacher of the Faith." The church examines whether the candidates "enjoy a good reputation; whether they are of irreproachable morality; whether they are endowed with right judgment and prudence; whether they are even-tempered and of stable character; whether they firmly hold the orthodox Faith; whether they are devoted to the Apostolic See and faithful to the Magisterium of the church; whether they have a thorough knowledge of dogmatic and moral theology and canon law; whether they are outstanding for their piety, their spirit of sacrifice and their pastoral zeal; whether they have an aptitude for governing." Consideration is also be given to "intellectual qualities, studies completed, social sense, spirit of dialogue and cooperation, openness to the signs of the times, praise-worthy impartiality, family background, health, age and inherited characteristics."
Please pray for the Archdiocese of Birmingham as it awaits an appointment of a new Archbishop.
H/T Humble Piety here
" Head In Clouds "
Oh just a personal reflection. There are perverts who take photographs of traditional Masses including pictures of my sons. So we know these scandals & perversions continue. Strangely the diagrams used in Archbishop Vincent's Sex Ed program are very similar to the circumcision, perversion diagrams used by perverts, particularly for & of young boys.
Archbishop Vincent Installation Homily
Faith is never a solitary activity nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension. This community of faith reaches beyond ethnicity, cultural difference and social division, opening for us a vision of ourselves, and of our society, as having a single source and a single fulfilment. Indeed this vision of faith is expressed powerfully by St Paul when, in his letter to the Galatians, he says that in Christ, "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus". This is a vision of true social cohesion, a promise which lies ahead and a signpost of which churches construct, Sunday by Sunday, with their communities of unity in diversity.
Here is the homily, which, alas, is rather woolly...but hopefully this is just the start and he will become more bold with his language later on. Enough of these 'nice' sermons! Dialogue with those who 'disagree' with Holy Mother Church. As a good priest told me recently. While dialogue is taking place, evil is triumphant.
H/T That the Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill here
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
The Bevans girls have been organising Raymond's tour. They were lovely & so inspiring. Thankyou Emily & Bernadette.
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Welcome to Westminster: The Book stops Here!
ALL THAT I AM
What I need to ask re the sex education suggested by our future Cardinal along with his CES, is how can we tell abuse from education? You see we have Archbishop Weakland saying he didn't think the little children would remember their abuse. Not much hey? What I'm asking Archbishop Vincent is how does he know my 8 year old daughter won't be harmed by looking at graphic pictures of penises? She has a father & 2 brothers who don't undress in front of her. In fact I was talking to a priest this evening about how a lot of women would go a whole lifetime without ever seeing male genitalia if they became nuns or never married. In fact as a married woman perhaps I don't know all the names but I still managed to have 10 children! Silly me! Before sex education do you know people did have children but obviously not on the scale now which is the clear result of all this early sexualisation contrary to the teaching of the Catholic church but advocated by His Grace. All those lovely vestments commisioned, all that fancy music commisioned, all that dressing up the Cathedral just doesn't wash with us parents & priests in union with the Holy Father. You can say & do what you like but while ATIA is doing the rounds harming our little ones..well have you seen a lioness with her cubs?
Can you imagine the future litigation? Actually only that my little ones are protected in their school i'd be first to sue for loss of innocence & more!
(Archbishop Nichol’s Worksheet for 9 year old boys and girls).
He does look a bit sick doesn't he? Must have just seen the diagrams & DVDs..
I MEAN do we HAVE to know what men keep down their trousers? Sorry that was me! Just had to ask!
Actually can someone help me out? John Kearney over at Catholic Rights mentions 'paedophilia'. I've been thinking the same myself but wouldn't dare google a meaning from my computer. However if I were to distribute diagrams like these to 9 year olds what would it be called?
“All that I Am” worksheets for Key Stage 2 Children
(Archbishop Nichol’s Worksheet for 9 year old boys and girls). I give NO warning because the little children don't get one!
The “All that I am” programme was developed by the Archdiocese of Birmingham with
the support of the Government’s Teenage Pregnancy Unit. here & here
Parents in Catholic Schools around the country are being told that they should accept it
“because it is endorsed by Archbishop Nichols”. It is indeed “badged” on the front cover
by the Archdiocese of Birmingham. It has a foreword by and the full support of the
Archbishop.
Therefore, as a result of the Archbishop’s authority, parents are being asked to accept that
girls will be given worksheets of male pelvises to label up and boys will get worksheets
of female pelvises. Many parents are shocked when they see the content of the
programme. They then question the assumption set out by the promotional DVD that
this program will reduce pregnancy among teenage children. They also find themselves
concerned at the early sexualisation of children by such a program.
The Key Stage 2 worksheet for
9-11 year-olds to the left asks
girls as well as boys to label
the parts male anatomy.
There is a similar female
pelvis to label and perhaps
colour (this is what school
children often do with sheets
like this). See below for these.
These images are from the DVDs shown to
the children in colour. The “All that I Am”
programme has labelled up the parts of the
pelvis wrongly. There are many other
factual errors in the program.
Note the teacher’s glossary, (attached)
which designed to help teachers explain
these things to children and contains terms
like copulation and ejaculate. Note this is a
Key Stage 2 (9-11 year old) glossary.
Many parents have said that they do not
believe this is right for their primary school
children. They find they disagree with the
judgement of the Catholic Archbishops as
well as the Catholic Education Service who
recommend the program.
Parents are the primary educators of their
children, and so their [the parents’]
judgement should be respected.
The programme is highly sexualised and
these are a few examples of the worksheets,
which cause concern.
The DVD presents the importance of
washing to make yourself attractive to the
other sex. The program emphasises
biology, while being very weak upon
values, family stability and love, as is
required by Church teaching.
In direct contravention of Church teaching
it insists upon teaching boys and girls
together. A further critique of the
programme is available at
http://www.faithandfamily.org.uk/resources
/critique.htm here
Do you know if you try & access this site (All That I Am) you get a WARNING about the material. Do you know I've never got one of them before! Is it because the material is pornographic?. As I said earlier though the children get no such luxury of being warned!
(nb Programme slickly packaged by Don McClean (who is he??)& sold throughout the country. Money provided by the notorious Teenage Pregnancy Unit. Did anyone take the 'king's shilling?' As it happens we are fortunate in not having our children's school polluting the children. Deo gratias!)
Monday, 18 May 2009
This is the little girl they'd like to label men's genitalia!!
Thought For The Week here & below
EASTERTIDE AND OUR LADY
As we have been hearing in our daily readings from Cardinal Newman’s meditations on the Litany of Loreto, there is a beautiful link between the season of Eastertide and Our Lady. The Cardinal points out that the month of May virtually always falls entirely within Eastertide, and ushers in the summer with its early promise of flowers and sunshine to come. From this fact he draws the parallel with Our Lady who brings into the world our Lord and Saviour, and who in her own character and holiness prepares the way for Him. She is like the dawn of the new day of grace and life after the long night of sin brought upon us by our first parents. She is like this month of the year which is filled with signs of the summer which is almost here, and which has so many beauties of its own to delight us, just like Our Lady herself.
Easter is above all other seasons the time of rejoicing, of anticipating the everlasting joys of heaven. After the rigours of Lent, a time of trial which exactly matches this life of testing and sometimes painful growth in holiness, Easter perfectly represents total enjoyment. Our Lord has won eternal life for all His brothers and sisters, who, like Him, are children of Adam and Eve. Our Lady is the first of those whom He has redeemed. She represents all that we are called to be when finally made perfect in heaven, though of course even in that state of perfect bliss she will be pre-eminent over all angels and saints.
Since Eastertide is above all other seasons the one in which we begin to live the joy of heaven, it is fitting that in Eastertide we honour Our Lady’s image here on earth, just as we hope one day to be able to honour her in person when, by God’s grace, we reach heaven. In heaven she is crowned Queen by the hand of her own Son, as we see in the mosaic above our High Altar, and in today’s picture here, showing the angels and saints praising God for His wonderful gifts of grace shown so completely in her. Here on earth, we have the privilege and joy of crowning her image ourselves and honouring her by singing hymns of joy and thanksgiving to God for giving us such a wonderful woman to be mother of our Redeemer, and our own heavenly loving mother, too. For insofar as we honour Our Lady we both please her Son, who delights to see His Mother honoured, and also we increase in grace; because nobody who gives due honour to Mary can fail to be drawn closer to her divine Son.
For those reasons, please come and take part in the Procession and Crowning of Our Lady’s statue next Sunday afternoon, Ascension Sunday, at 4 p.m. Many of you will remember happy May processions from your childhood. The devotion of children to Our Lady is something especially pleasing to Our Lord and won for us as children many graces and joys. We must now do the same for our children of this new generation. They too are called to come to know Our Lord better and be filled with His grace and love through honouring His Mother. Bring your children and encourage your friends and relations to come, too! The greater the number of those who come to honour our Lady, especially when they bring children with them and teach them to honour her, the greater the blessings which will be poured out on our Parish, our families and our schools.
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