tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post1090705995338262477..comments2023-11-24T06:43:02.286+00:00Comments on Aspicientes in Jesum: PetitionPastor in Montehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-14002606914432750862010-03-16T14:02:41.897+00:002010-03-16T14:02:41.897+00:00Kate, many thanks for your post. If you have furth...Kate, many thanks for your post. If you have further details you can share about the school you mention, do please email them to johnsmeaton@spuc.org.ukAnthony Ozimichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053726447567010002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-17358796004658889182010-03-12T13:44:22.409+00:002010-03-12T13:44:22.409+00:00Silence is seen in law as an affirmation.Silence is seen in law as an affirmation.John Kearneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13074138642860577242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-39963334436701222912010-03-07T20:18:20.077+00:002010-03-07T20:18:20.077+00:00I just get the impression that Christian leaders a...I just get the impression that Christian leaders and advisers in the churches are weak and insipid. Thge history of the church shows that people should just disobey the law and take he cosequences. We need a churchill, perhaps. The RC church in this country has shown itself to be risk averse and panders to the secular authorities. Did Thomas More and John Fisher say "we must not rock the boat; we must follow the guidelines?" Let's see a few priests and bishops in prison and the state will back down as it did when Anglo-Catholic were imprisoned under the woeship acts 100 years ago. Sadly, it is still true that the time when the highest number of clergy were in prison was under DR 18B in the 1940's.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15628137193525409363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-11472554499095604152010-03-04T09:51:26.341+00:002010-03-04T09:51:26.341+00:00Kate;
sadly, I fear that the answer is that the D...Kate;<br /><br />sadly, I fear that the answer is that the Devil has entirely reasonable expectations; and knows that if he doesn't 'get in quick', then those children may be safe from him . . . so he uses the weakness of impressionable people like that HE teacher to further his aim of corruption and sin.<br /><br />Good on your friend, and we should pray for him and the school; but above all for the HE teacher who was so shamefully used by the Devil, and who so clearly needs our prayers.Dominic Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14514722976964423091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-3205164823670886052010-03-03T23:09:42.475+00:002010-03-03T23:09:42.475+00:00One brave young lay chaplain of my acquaintance ar...One brave young lay chaplain of my acquaintance arranged for an excellent speaker on chastity to give a talk/answer questions in his Catholic school. The speaker and the message were so good that even some of the most unruly yr9/10 pupils were spellbound. Afterwards,a few made enquiries about the Catholic Faith/ becoming Catholics.<br />But the home economics teacher was not impressed, and took it upon herself to treat the pupils to a 'real' SRE lesson- safe sex, condoms etc. She didn't seem to believe that young people could even aspire to live out Catholic teaching in their lives.Surely something is wrong when people have such low expectations of young people!Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08692837527315745231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-3365170796286830232010-03-03T18:15:05.421+00:002010-03-03T18:15:05.421+00:00I think the critical point is that the question of...I think the critical point is that the question of exactly what our Schools are going to be obliged to do is a function of 'precisely what does the law say ?' : and until we know <i>that</i>, we simply can't answer the question.<br /><br />My hope is that, as with so much legislation of recent years, the law will be so badly drafted as to make it possible for Catholic Schools to comply with the letter of the law in good conscience !<br /><br />It's truly not impossible that that could happen - though whether by accident or design, who knows ?Dominic Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14514722976964423091noreply@blogger.com