What is the "Growing in Love" series?

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What’s this “Growing in Love” series all about, anyway? Will this, or has this, become required course material in the Catholic schools?

What little I know about it bothers me. Can anyone shed some light on this?
 
is this part of the growing kids God’s way by the ezzo family??? if it is it should bother you and www.ezzo.info should provide info, if not i’m not sure what you are talking about
 
I’m referring to the “Growing in Love” program appearing in Catholic schools across America. It is published by the Harcourt Publishing Co. and was written by Fr. Richard Sparks and aimed at the K through 8 age groups.

Please refer to this link for more detailed information. totustuus.com/gil_crit.html

"Kindergarten children are taught the concepts of homosexuality and sexual intercourse. In the third grade sexual intercourse is explicitly described along with erections and instruction regarding the finer points of masturbation. In the fourth grade children are to be given the definition of oral sex under the pretext of discussing modesty! In the fifth grade, 9 and 10-year old children are given a vivid description of what an orgasm feels like and a how-to description of oral sex. In the seventh grade children are given graphic verbal depictions of anal sex, sex toys, sadistic and masochistic sexual acts, and bestiality.”

Is this what we can expect from our Catholic schools? Does anyone have anything more on this program?
 
OH, MY!

This just makes my stomache turn and renforces my choice to Home school!

And that information on Babywise, I always had a pit in my stomache when people talked about how great it was. I just can not imagine letting your baby starve till the clock strikes 3-4 hours at 4-5 weeks of age. It will be interesting to see how these children turn out. The part of being self-withdrawn. Well, if I had no concept of time and trusted this parent to give me my basic needs and they with held them because it was not convenent, I would with drawl from them too!

God help us and the little ones who are in danger!
 
I just couldn’t believe it was true. It sounds so sensational that I just knew that some super far out there extremist must have written that review. Unfortunately, a quick Google search makes it appear it is accurate and the super far out there extremist was the series’ author. The series apparently caries an Imprimatur but dioceses are banning its use. It doesn’t look like it is very widespread.

I echo kp1; it just reinforces my desire to homeschool.

CatholicParentsOnLine has more info on the books.

A Google search of the priest brings up article after article like this excerpt from EWTN:

Fr. Sparks is absolute poison! He was one of the original dissenters from Humanae Vitae and has been dissenting from the Church’s teaching on sexual morality ever since. Growing in Love is one of the worst of the sex ed programs. I consider it “grooming” for homosexuals. It exposes children to the most explicit material. Unless he converts a millstone waits with his name on it. I have a tape of Fr. Sparks from a workshop given at Mahony’s notorious West Coast Religious Ed Conference (I think 2001 - there was a march 2001 article on it in The Wanderer.) He talks about Joseph wanting to “jump on Mary’s bones” and that Jesus and Mary Magdalen might have necked and petted a little…
 
:bigyikes: Before you all feel the need to soak your computers in lye soap, just for contact with this stuff…The Archdiocese of New Orleans and several others (Richmond, Rockford, Peoria, Baltimore) had it for less than a year when it first came out, and have forbidden its use. (Admittedly, they won’t be teaching religion classes in New Orleans any time soon. And they all probably should have actually looked at the materials before spending money on them.)

So, I did a search at Harcourt’s religion site using the title, the author and the ISBN (got that from Amazon used books). It appears this series was not a money-maker for Harcourt, as it is no longer in their catalog.As they released it over five years ago, that is a very good sign.

I have an email in to their religion department, and will let you know what I find. But so far, unless a parish has already invested in these “educational materials” or somebody picks them up used (and hopefully then pitches them, or burns them- even better), they don’t seem to be in Harcourt’s stable any more.

jstore.harcourtreligion.com/onlinecatalog/index.html

Now- all of you, run and fetch the Clorox Spray!:bigyikes:
 
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