I am one of the generational Catholics
schooled in the Faith by the teaching of the Baltimore Catechism prior to
Vatican II, which the post-Vatican II religious education establishment branded as defective pedagogy. My quarrel with them is not over their
contention concerning the style of
teaching, but rather their view that the truths of the Catholic faith on the
existence and nature of God, the creation and Fall, the Incarnation and
Redemption, and the Church set down in the Baltimore Catechism were defective
as well. My experience after 36 years of teaching in Cathodic schools, all of them since Vatican II, is that CAtholic students are still doctrinally illiterate when compared with pre-Vatican II students. Here is proof.
It comes as no surprise to the thinking Catholic that since the onset of the sexual revolution we have had to face an ever-increasing array of sexual problems. One has only to think of the tremendous increase in the number of illegitimate births and abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, opposition to censorship of pornography (especially on the Internet), and the resulting sexual addiction (in some extreme instances resulting in murder). Consider too the tremendous blows to marriage and the family done by adultery, the battle over the homosexual lifestyle in the United States, Canada and Europe (now to the point of the redefinition of marriage under the law); the increasing incidences of sexual harassment, child pornography on the Internet, Internet predators, the collegiate "rape culture", and of course, the divorce rate. Read the following and weep (or pray): Online harassment of women at risk of becoming 'established norm', study finds Australian re...
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