News Item: : The Years of Innocence
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Saturday 04 March 2017 - 13:00:14

It often strikes me that the danger of Hell is so real that Our Lady was prepared to show it to the innocent little seers at Fatima. She also told them that most souls go there because of the sins of the flesh.

The purity of innocents is a key target of Satan and his minions. Impurity destroys the state of grace in souls and leads them further away from God and neighbour. It creates in the soul a distaste for prayer and penance; leading to increasing hardness of heart, avoidance of the things of God, loss of faith and eventual loss of hope. The self and other people come to be seen as mere objects of use, rather than as persons who are made in God's image and likeness; and who we are called to serve and love. If persisted in, without repentance, impurity can even lead to final impenitence.

We have spoken a number of times here of the fact that atheistic regimes have long recognized two pillars which protected society from their total control: the Catholic Church and the family unit. This is why such entities have frequently made use of atheistic sex-education, devoid of references to morality or spirituality, to undermine these strong pillars. If the conjugal act is removed from marriage, then the family collapses, religion declines and the disintegration of civilization follows in its wake. 

We see an example of this in the approach of the Communist education tsar Georg Lukacs; that infamous figure from the notorious Frankfurt School, who made extensive use of atheistic sex-education in Hungary during the 1920s. This was done to demolish the strong bonds of the Church and the family, in order to facilitate the total control of the people by the government.

It is a cruel irony, and perhaps an inbuilt form of temporal punishment for sin, that rampant individualism leads incrementally to tyrannical state control. Instead of a flourishing culture which is interlocked by large and strong families, society ends in a mass of isolated individuals, who collectively lack any genuine direction. As all the evidence of our present time shows, sex-education - especially that which is atheistic and graphic - weakens the family bond, and too-often leads straight into the Culture of Death through addictions, fornication, contraception-use and resort to abortion. All too soon, the disoriented and dependant individuals who typify such a society find their life's direction being given to them from those who hold on to power.

Much is being made of the claim that the UK's newly compulsory relationships and sex-education, for four years olds and upwards, will be tailored with ''age-appropriate'' materials.

This claim is hugely problematic, given that the very title of the curriculum is ''relationships and sex-education''!

Then, too, many primary schools are already giving out LGBT reading books and even showing graphic sex cartoons to children as young as five through the Living and Growing series. This latter is quite simply pornographic.

A number of media stories in the last few years have demonstrated that, sometimes, parents only found out that their children had viewed these materials when they came home upset and confused.

Up to now, Catholic parents have at least had some protection, or at least redress, due to the fact that sex-education was not compulsory at the primary level. Now that Archbishop Malcolm McMahon has faced parents with a shocking fait accompli, by suddenly welcoming the government's decision to make relationships and sex-ed compulsory in primary schools, parents will have to struggle even more to ensure their children are protected.

This is very clear when one remembers that local authorities throughout the country have been introducing education materials at the primary level which are gravely at odds with Catholic sexual ethics and moral teaching.

On 5th June, 2014, we reported on the fact that the homosexualist Stonewall organization was calling for UK primary schools to feature the above-pictured Daddy's Roommate, by Michael Willhoite, as a key resource. Other titles pushed by Stonewall, and accepted by some local authorities into their schools included Hello Sailor, The Sissy Duckling, Josh and Jay Have Three Mums and Mom and Mum are Getting Married...

Whilst Archbishop McMahon's official Catholic Education Service response to the government makes much of parental right to withdraw students and the notion that materials will be adapted to suit Church teaching, our report yesterday demonstrated that this did not at all happen in his own Archdiocese, when the Headteacher at Sacred Heart Primary School in Atherton promoted LGBT ideology to young children without even consulting their parents.

Indeed, now that relationships and sex-education has been made compulsory for primary schools, it is difficult to see how such materials would be resisted, given that Royal Assent was given to the same-sex ''marriage'' laws here in 2013. 

Catholics in the UK well remember the dark days in 2009 when Archbishop Malcolm McMahon's immediate predecessor at the helm of the CES, (the then) Archbishop Vincent Nichols was meeting with Lord Knight of Weymouth, the CES' Oonagh Stannard and the Labour Government's education leader Ed Balls to discuss the acceptance of compulsory sex-ed into all Catholic schools.

At that time, Lord Knight of Weymouth was reported in the Hansard summary of the debate on the then-proposed Children and Families Bill as saying: ''I set up an expert group to look at compulsory sex and relationship education. It included young people, educationalists, experts from organizations such as Brook and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, and representatives from the major faith groups. There were representatives from the Anglican church, the Catholic Education Service - I had very good conversations with Vincent Nichols and I congratulate him on being made a cardinal - the non-conformist faiths, the Muslim faith and the Jewish faith. We achieved consensus around the need for compulsory sex and relationship education.''

(Please note: the bold italic type is ours to highlight the salient points). It will be remembered, too, that Brook and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service are promoters and providers of abortion respectively...

The issues surrounding that whole saga were so notorious that over 2,000 Catholic priests, laity and representatives of other concerned groups petitioned our bishops to resist this move. As SPUC's John Smeaton warned in a headline on 10th February, 2010: ''Catholic Education Service has helped draft the government's anti-life/anti-family sex-ed draft guidance.'' 

This background, taken together with the CES and Archbishop McMahon so readily accepting the new compulsory sex and relationships education this week, should cause grave concern to all faithful observers.

We began this piece by considering the revelations of Our Lady to the three young seers at Fatima. By God's grace, the relics of Blessed Jacinta and Blessed Francesco Marto will travel to many UK cathedrals this year to mark the 100th anniversary of the apparitions. Curiously, Archbishop McMahon's cathedral at Liverpool does not yet seem to be listed as one of the venues.

We must say that, whilst it is great that the sacred relics of the holy seers will be going around the nation in this manner, if the bishops in those dioceses welcome the relics, but fail to stand up against impure and inappropriate relationships and sex-education being foisted on the children in their care, this would be an example of false piety indeed.

Let us therefore pray to Our Lady of Fatima and the holy child seers for the bishops to do the right thing before God and for all the families concerned.

Our Lady of Fatima - Pray for us!

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