Friday, December 9, 2011

A nasty draught around the shirt-tails

Perhaps you know the feeling. At a meeting, you are defending what you understand to be an official line, when someone demonstrates that the official line is something quite different and you have got it all wrong.

It's bad enough when the issue at stake is merely business or politics, but disastrous when we are talking about Catholic teaching.

How can parents bring up chidren in a Catholic ethos when Catholic schools 'nuance', disparage, sidestep, or subvert Catholic morality as it relates to sex and marriage; when the Hierarchy apparently accepts (or certainly does not vigorously attack and demolish) wicked government-sponsored sex-education  training programmes which are being used in Catholic schools?

2 comments:

Ben Trovato said...

Our solution was to take the kids out of Catholic schools, put them in state secular schools an fight our own battles: state secular schools much more sensitive to our issues! See my blog passim....

Home schooling is the other way.

Or find a good Catholic school (a few still exist, though the CES is working on it...)

Left-footer said...

Ben Trovato - for our children, state schools were the answer 20 years ago, after condom and hockey-stick antics at the convent.

When I read comments attacking bloggers for lack of respect or obedience to Bishops, I get angry.