News Item: : Shocking Corruption of the Young at World Youth Day
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Friday 29 July 2016 - 14:36:33

Gravely Flawed

LifeSiteNews has provided a typically thorough critique of a Vatican programme which is being presented this week to young people at the World Youth Day in Poland.

The programme has been released under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for the Family and is called The Meeting Point: Course of Affective Sexual Education for Young People.

LifeSiteNews' Pete Baklinski has exposed the fact that the Vatican programme contains a number of grave problems.

These include the facts that it: hands over the sexual formation of children to outside educators, whilst leaving parents out of the equation; teaches sensitive matter to mixed groups of boys and girls in the same class; completely ignores the 6th and 9th Commandments; fails to mention sexual sins or the sacrament of confession; neglects to mention the warnings of Our Lady of Fatima on impurity and the danger of Hell; makes uncritical use of the homosexualist icon Elton John as an example of a ''gifted and famous'' person; fails to mention Christ's teaching on marriage; suggests that ''heterosexuality is something to be discovered''; mentions only the psychological harm caused by abortion, with no mention at all of its intrisically evil nature or the spiritual consequences for the soul; and uses sexually explicit images and immoral videos as springboards for group discussion. 

Although Baklinski does point out some positive elements in the course, such as its promotion of chastity in later modules and its avoidance of gender theory and radical feminism, the above mentioned problems should rule this programme out for any use with young people whatsoever. 

Indeed, Baklinski also demonstrates how the new programme represents a clear departure from the Magisterial teachings expressed by Pope Pius XI in his much ignored encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, Pope Pius XII's address to the fathers of families, Pope St. John Paul II's apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, and the 1983 Educational Guidelines in Human Love which were issued by the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education.

The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality

One of the other key texts that we have particularly drawn from, in Torch of The Faith's catechetical presentations over the years, is The Pontifical Council for the Family's 1995 teaching document, The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality - Guidelines for Education Within the Family.

We have used this as a guiding template for giving catechesis on chastity and marriage; as well as for equipping parents to educate their own children correctly and to be able to resist the atheistic forms of ''sex education'' which, sad to relate, prevail in many so-called Catholic schools in England.

For the most part, this marvellous document has been both overlooked and much resisted in England. We know a good grandfather who, armed with his own copy, was banned from even entering a meeting for priests, parents and teachers at a Catholic school on Merseyside. We've also heard that a priest-director of education had suggested that being a Roman document, it did not apply in the English situation. And this was years before Jorge Bergoglio and Reinhard Marx were on the scene with their decentralization theories...

The Spirit of Secularisation

From Pete Baklinski's careful dissection of The Meeting Point: Course of Affective Sexual Education for Young People, it is clear that this new programme itself stands in grave contradiction to the standards enunciated in The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality and other key teachings. 

That there is therefore something very wrong at the Pontifical Council for the Family in the days of Pope Francis, means that Christian families can no longer trust it or its work.

Indeed, this is not news...

As long ago as the 26th August, 2015, Voice of the Family's John Smeaton was warning that the spirit of secularisation now presides at the Pontifical Council for the Family.

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the present head of the Pontifical Council for the Family. ''Nuff'' said...

Recalling that the Council's former head, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, operated under the motto Veritas in caritate, John Smeaton noted by way of contrast that, under the new leadership of Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the Pontifical Council for the Family had hosted three workshops to look at ''the possibility of an evolution of the ecclesiastical doctrine of marriage''.

Whilst the reports of those workshops were not publicised, their nature can perhaps be discerned from the fact that the dissenting homosexualist, and sacrilegious communion promoting, Fr. Eberhard Schockenhoff was among the participants. Also present was Fr. Gianpaolo Dianin, who suggests that traditional Church discipline ''understands little'' of the hardships faced by contemporary families...

Grave Scandal - Grave Consequences

Paragraph CCC 2353 of The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that it is a grave scandal to corrupt the young in the area of fornication.

It is gravely imperative that Archbishop Paglia and his minions are reminded about the intrinsically evil nature of key elements of their new programme, the danger it poses to the souls of young people, and of the clear danger it poses to their own souls as potential corrupters of the young on a massive scale.

For the sake of the salvation of all involved, this new programme should not be tolerated or promoted by Pope Francis, Archbishop Paglia or the many other bishops, priests and catechists taking part in Poland's World Youth Day.

Now is the Time to Repent!

As the following warning from St. John Vianney's Little Catechism of the Cure d'Ars makes clear, it is time to take off the sunglasses, put down the Kool Aid and start getting serious about faith and morals...

So, my children, of all sins, that of impurity is the most difficult to eradicate. Other sins forge for us chains of iron, but this one makes them of bull's hide, which can be neither broken nor rent; it is a fire, a furnace, which consumes even to the most advanced age.

See those two infamous old men who attempted the purity of the chaste Susannah; they had kept the fire of their youth even till they were decrepit. When the body is worn out with debauchery, when they can no longer satisfy their passions, they supply the place of it, oh, shame! by infamous desires and memories!

With one foot in the grave, they still speak the language of passion, till their last breath; they die as they have lived, impenitent; for what penance can be done by the impure, what sacrifice can be imposed on himself at his death, who during his life has always given way to his passions?

Can one at the last moment expect a good confession, a good Communion, from him who has concealed one of these shameful sins, perhaps, from his earliest youth - who has heaped sacrilege on sacrilege? Will the tongue, which has been silent up to this day, be unloosed at the last moment? No, no, my children,; God has abandoned him; many sheets of lead already weigh upon him; he will add another, and it will be the last...

Please Note: This is not meant to make anyone despair, because God is always merciful to those who sincerely repent. What is implied is that we must repent TODAY whilst there is still time and begin again with God's grace. It is not a discouraging condemnation of those who sincerely engage in the grace-aided struggle to be chaste, but a warning to those who refuse to change and who even corrupt others as well as themselves   

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