English Catholic Church Surrenders

[JimG]

"When I was a Catholic, my friends and I would chortle triumphally about the poor old Anglican Church, and how it was slip-sliding into the mire of moral relativism, and so forth. Unlike us, with our Magisterium.

Boy, those were the days. Now this, via the Rev. Jules Gomes:

English Catholic Church Surrenders

In culture war capitulation, bishops agree to teaching gender ideology to children

www.theamericanconservative.com

 

[TheLittleLady]

From the legislation:

(2) In relation to education provided under section 80(1)(c) and (d), the guidance must be given with a view to ensuring that—

(a)the pupils learn about—

(i)the nature of marriage and civil partnership and their importance for family life and the bringing up of children,

(ii)safety in forming and maintaining relationships,

(iii)the characteristics of healthy relationships, and

(iv)how relationships may affect physical and mental health and wellbeing, and

(b)the education is appropriate having regard to the age and the religious background of the pupils.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111181997

I cannot find one word requiring “teaching sexual practices” to kids

ETA: When same sex marriage enjoys the protection of the civil law, I cannot see how schools are supposed to ignore it. The legislation does not forbid the parents or parishes from teaching Catholic morality any more than when sex ed simply taught about birth control and we parents taught our children that was not a moral thing.

 

[Dr_Meinheimer]

Do Catholic Bishops here in the US generally support the education of children on the use of contraception, on two men being able to marry, or on the right of a woman to exterminate her baby in the womb?

The Church is supposed to be counter-cultural. It appears they simply gave up and threw in the towel, from my research.

 

[c1949]

Part of the problem has been the historical prejudice against individuals with same-sex attraction. The Catechism says we are not to mistreat such individuals and they are supposed to be treated with dignity. The Church has lost control of any narrative about sexual morality owing to its own sexual criminals on several continents.

I haven’t seen it and it’s too expensive just to satisfy my curiosity, but the 1917 Code of Canon Law reportedly was much more explicit on forbidden conduct of clergy and penalties for the same. JPII changed canon law right at the time when enforcement of it should have been a high priority. What were JPII and B16 thinking?