The National Catholic Education Association is meeting in Boston and Catholic News Service brings up the discussion of Talking about Touching. The funny thing about it is the assumption that because parents and others who objected to the curriculum have been ignored and had it shoved down their throats nevertheless, it means there isn’t opposition.
No objections to Talking about Touching?
Further reading
“The National Catholic Education Association is meeting in Boston”
Nope. The group—called “The National Catholic Educational Association—met at they Hynes last week. (I thought it was odd that the group chose Easter Week, of all times, to hold a convention, but there you are.)
They arrived on Easter Sunday night and met, every day, from Monday through Friday morning. Saint Francis Chapel was packed every single day. In fact, Copley Square was packed with delegates every day. It was wall to wall priests and nuns (and, one presumes, lay Catholic educators).
In our diocese, the response of the bishop (heavily implicated in the homosexual priest scandal) has been to fingerprint all CCD and Confirmation class parents, to call us all in to inform us that the scandal has nothing, nothing to do with homosexuality (a bald-faced lie that insults every parent in the diocese), and to tell us that we should never trust a priest to be alone with one of our children again. Now, our Catholic school has sent us a note informing us of a ‘touching’ program for our KINDERGARTEN kids. Now, here’s the thing. We already know that we cannot trust any priest to be alone with one of our children – because we do not know who is who, and obviously there are a lot of sicko priests. I say clean up the priesthood, so that we can tell our children in HONESTY AND TRUTH to trust any priest to be a man of Christ. For these ‘touching’ types of programs teach our children just the opposite – that there is no one in this world they can trust. If I might, I would like a church I can trust. I would like a church where when a priest tells me he wants to spend some time with my son, I am not afraid of really, really evil things happening. I want a church where I can be glad and happy that a priest chooses my son to mentor and teach. That church is now long lost and faded into the memories of the aged. We need to find it and reclaim it.