Do you have kids in CCD or Catholic Schools?

[Old_Joe]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Nov 20 2005, 02:17 PM']What search for truth?  Why would they search for truth?  They have all the answers, remember?  They have the Teachers' Editions!   They're unstoppable!


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What do we need the teacher's editions for? The answers are in the back of the book. Not to mention you could download essays on just about any topic.

[journeyman]

sad to say, it could be in order to teach the children what is appropriate behavior from adults and how to recognize inappropriate behavior

our diocesan child abuse prevention (teaching the adults) website
[url="http://www.virtus.org/virtus/"]http://www.virtus.org/virtus/[/url]

[catholicflower]

You from Arlington Diocese? I had to do adult session last year. Those are 2 very sad videos they show during it.

[Ash Wednesday]

Whatever happened to just referring to them as "areas covered by a bathing suit"?

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' date='Nov 20 2005, 06:41 PM']Whatever happened to just referring to them as "areas covered by a bathing suit"?
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[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' date='Nov 20 2005, 07:41 PM']Whatever happened to just referring to them as "areas covered by a bathing suit"?
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What happened? I'll tell you what happened: bathing suits that don't cover anything. That's what happened.

[thessalonian]

Journeyman,

Your article says:
[quote]One large parish in our diocese hosts a community vacation bible school for children from all faiths and has done so over many summers.[/quote]

I will just cut to the chase. There should not be interfaith vacation bible schools. Our parish does them and they are as watered down as a tropical storm in Guatamala or something like that. They wouldn't even do the sign of the cross or say the Our Father for fear of offending some of the paraents so that they wouldn't bring their kids. The Catholic kids are the ones who suffer and don't learn to practice their faith. If you have these types of things going on in your diocese or parish raise a stink. They're bad news for the future of our kids and Catholicism. They turn out Catholics who become anti-catholic protestants.

As for education for adults, I think it is fine, though I doudt that it will keep anyone from committing sexual abuse. It may help others to recognize when it is going on or be more proactive in getting someone to check it out.


Blessings

[thessalonian]

The virtus.org/virtus sight that journeyman posted has a video online. it contains some of what fr. altier apparently heard concering the myths of sexaul abuse. As he said it is somewhat innocuous but it does downplay homosexuality as a part of this. That is wrong. It is a significant factor and should not be downplayed as the video does. Though it is perhaps right to raise the issue that others who are not neccessarily strictly homosexual can be offenders, though I would suspect that most of these are what would be called bi-sexual. It's as disordered as the first. The point is that these crimes are being committed by sexually disordered people. The video would tend to direct the focus away from one offending group and put it on another.

Blessings

[thessalonian]

[journeyman]

[quote name='catholicflower' date='Nov 20 2005, 06:22 PM']You from Arlington Diocese? I had to do adult session last year. Those are 2 very sad videos they show during  it.
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Richmond Diocese . . . Everyone who has anything to do with the kids has to do it . . . and I think they're moving toward every volunteer . . . I went earlier this year. The videos are sad, but also scary . . . the predators look just like everybody else, and act better than most.