Cardinal Canizares calls on Catholic schools to teach socialist course in conformity with Church doctrine (CNA)

[Catholic_Press]

Toledo, Oct 1, 2008 / 09:07 pm (CNA).- The Archbishop of Toledo, Cardinal Antonio Canizares, has sent a letter to the administrators, teachers, parents and students of the archdiocese?s Catholic schools instructing them that the controversial course Education for Citizenship cannot be taught in its current form and must be adapted to Church teaching.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/catholicnewsagency/dailynews/~4/408816142

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[KathleenElsie]

The cardinal said the contents of the course would be adapted to the nature and mission of Catholic schools and that teachers would be provided with materials for the course that “do not contradict the Christian vision.”
“We support the law and we want to obey it,” Cardinal Canizares emphasized, but some aspects of Education for Citizenship “are not compatible with the Christian vision of man which is what gives our schools their identity and which is what you parents and teachers have opted to have.”
The course imposes a “moral and human formation” that has not been chosen by parents and is imposed on schools in violation of Catholic doctrine, Cardinal Canizares added. “In our diocesan schools, we defend liberty, within and at the service of the common good,” he said.

Another brave Cardinal.

 

[Dale_M]

I wonder, what does Cardinal Canizares finds objectionable in the “Education for Citizenship” course? The article doesn’t say.

 

[Muzhik]

I wonder, what does Cardinal Canizares finds objectionable in the “Education for Citizenship” course? The article doesn’t say.

At the end of the article, it says:

The Bishops’ Conference of Spain has decried the Education for Citizenship course for elements “contrary to Catholic teaching and to authentic humanism, such as moral relativism and gender ideology.”

From that, I would guess it teaches things like how homosexuality is perfectly normal and natural, and how there is no such thing as absolute truth.

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[Digitonomy]

I wonder why the title calls it a socialist course? Socialism is essentially an economic system, which does not have much relation to gender identity and moral relativism. Maybe it reflects the ideology of one or more of the socialist parties in Spain.