The Church was also strong enough to produce men of independent spirit and great intelligence then, too. The famous Bishop Kelley who worked with Cardinal Curley of Boston to write, the seminal Blood Drenched Altars, wrote scathingly of the socialist government's connection with sex education, which President Lázaro Cárdenas tacitly admitted, would destroy the family:
It is untrue that Socialistic education may lead to the dissolution of the home; and it is also untrue that it perverts children and separates them from their parents. Socialist education prepares the child so that, when he becomes a man, he may comply with his obligations of solidarity in a spirit of fraternity for his class companions.24
He [President Lázaro Cárdenas] was thinking, no doubt, that the federal president's words in Ciudad González were aimed at the eight archdioceses, twenty-two dioceses, and one vicariate apostolic of all Mexico. And it was no secret that the revolutionary school system was inculcating atheism. Its program of "sex-education" was crude and laughable in today's terms. And it was certainly offensive to Mexican standards of decency. One might also add that the whole persecution was crude because it only served to enrage the vast multitudes of the population. Blood Drenched Altars, Book Review, Brian van Hove SJ here.
And back then, Bishops didn't just pay lip service to charity by encouraging people to break the law, they actually held vigils, like Cardinal Hays once did, here.
Catholic groups led by the Archbishop of Toronto have vowed to work co-operatively with the Ontario Education Ministry on a new sex-education curriculum for children in Grades 1 to 8.
Premier Dalton McGuinty’s office issued a statement from the groups on Wednesday night, amid controversy over whether all publicly funded schools in the province were in fact planning to follow the same sex-ed curriculum.
The now shelved sex-ed curriculum would have introduced the topic of same-sex marriage to Grade 3 students and a mention of anal intercourse in Grade 7. Sister Joan said the Catholic version of the curriculum would not have taught children in separate schools about gender identity until Grade 7.
Mr. McGuinty said he was in the dark about his government’s revamped curriculum until last week, when a Christian group led by evangelist Charles McVety complained about it. But he took the blame for the fact that it has been derailed. He read the chapter on sex-ed only last Thursday, the same day he pulled the plug on the document.
For a great back ground in the history of Mexico and the persecution of the Church there, read, Blood Drenched Altars, available, here.
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