sexual education

Britain’s House of Commons is set to vote on legislation this week that would introduce a program of sex education to primary school children from as young as 5 years of age.

The “Children, Schools and Families Bill” also contains many other clauses which, critics say, is not so much a denial of Catholic teaching “as a whole uprooting of the natural law relationship between parents, children and the state.”

The bill, which Members of Parliament will vote on Tuesday, is causing widespread concern among United Kingdom priests and laity who see it as further erosion of legitimate freedoms… Read more »

On Saturday, 20th February, 2010, Archbishop Paul Cremona OP celebrated Mass at Burmarrad Parish, for the official opening of the Pastoral visit. In his homily, the Archbishop talked about the importance of having a unified community which works together with the Pastoral Commissions. In turn, the Archbishop said, these Commissions have to work together to achieve important goals for the greater good of the Comunity… Read more »

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

“The political calling is a calling to the common good and the salvation of society. A good that cannot but be cast into the future. Young people are not, then, mere onlookers, they are the protagonists of politics, which cannot either look to the past or be flattened on to the present”. It was recalled this afternoon by card. Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, as he spoke in Riccione at the yearly gathering of the politicians’ coordination “Rete Italia”… Read more »