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Home-Education – is it worth the hassle?

June 15, 2010 in Morality, Our Lady, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, catholic schools, homeschooling, tradition, usa by webmaster | 40 comments

There does come a day when you actually finish home schooling your children. I have reached that day this year with our daughter’s graduation from high school. As I work my way through the empty ‘school desk’ syndrome and begin to look at myself anew and consider my possibilities for the future, I can’t help but reflect back on what I found most important in our experience.There were many days when home schooling was a test of endurance, patience and faith, and other days when I turned it into race and almost burned out, but mostly I managed to keep the pace even, trying not to pass up too many rest stops. I had to completely remake our home life. I learned the Faith, and also received the Catholic education I was never given – both of these gifts were worth the work of home schooling and I doubt that they would have happened without it.   Click here to read more

We’ve never had a thread on the topic of home-schooling before, so for those who are concerned about the state of a Catholic Education System that lets heretics like laisized priest, Professor Thomas Groome loose to malform the teachers, home-education is an option you may wish to consider. As you will see from the above article, however, it is not at all plain sailing, so the question for discussion has to be – is it worth the hassle?

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David Cameron Reneges On Marriage Policy…

May 26, 2010 in Morality, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, homosexuality, marriage, parliament by webmaster | 25 comments

LONDON, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A document put out by Britain’s new coalition government outlining their goals, fails to include the word “marriage,” or any specific pledge to bolster the flagging institution. Prime Minister David Cameron had made numerous pledges to protect marriage in the build-up to this month’s general election.The new coalition government, composed of ministers from the Conservative party and from the far-left Liberal Democrats, issued a document outlining their policies on “Families and Children.” The document assiduously avoids mention of “marriage” or any promise to help married couples in the tax code. Instead it speaks of “relationship support” for “strong and stable families of all kinds.” Click here to read more

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Government Sex-Education: Catholic Schools in England & Wales Formally Co-operate With Evil?

February 27, 2010 in Dissent, Morality, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, abortion, bishops, catholic schools, homosexuality by webmaster | 86 comments

“A Catholic faith school can say to their pupils: ‘We believe as a religion contraception is wrong.’ But what they can’t do is therefore say that they are not going to teach contraception to children, how to access contraception, or how to use contraception. What this changes is that for the first time these schools cannot just ignore these issues or teach only one side of the argument.

“They also have to teach that there are different views on homosexuality. They cannot teach homophobia. They must explain civil partnerships. They must give a balanced view on abortion. They must give both sides of the argument. They must explain how to access an abortion. The same is true on contraception as well.”

He added: “To have the support of the Catholic Church and Archbishop Nichol [sic] in these changes is, I think, very, very important, is a huge step forward…Fr Tim Finigan, a parish priest and blogger in Blackfen, Kent, said: ‘Catholic schools cannot give information about how to access the local abortion clinic since this would be formal co-operation in a grave evil.’”
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UK Survey: Homosexuality Now Acceptable…

January 29, 2010 in International, Science, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, homosexuality, parliament by editor | 142 comments

“ABOUT one in 16 British men and one in 29 women have had a homosexual experience, according to the largest survey ever carried out of British sexual behaviour.
The survey – financed by the Wellcome Trust – explodes the myth that British men are more likely to be homosexual than those in other countries. Equally false, according to the survey, is the belief that young people can be ‘inducted’ into lifelong homosexuality by early experience. Men and women who first experienced homosexuality before the age of 16 were less likely than those who started homosexual practices later to have had a partner of the same gender in recent years.

The findings will be powerful ammunition for those lobbying MPs to support legislation to lower the age of consent from 21 to 16. The House of Commons is expected to vote on the proposition next week.”
Click here to read the whole article

However, it’s less acceptable in Moscow: click here to read more and then click on ‘comments’ to tell us what you think.

Do Catholics stand out in society for their opposition to the normalizing of homosexual activity? Why, in your view, has homosexual activity moved from being a criminal offence to being socially acceptable and even promoted as a perfectly normal lifestyle. Why is that? Could (and should)  the Church – even now, at this late stage – do more to counter the “gay” movement?  The Pope has spoken out,  but why are there so few clearly worded statements on the subject from bishops, priests and educationalists?  Parents and young people want answers; they need to be able to explain Catholic teaching on this subject, which saturates the media these days. Why is there so little, if any, local leadership on this moral issue?

Is it because it is being accepted, (through the back door) at local level, within the Church?  I’ve attended a “gay” Mass myself in a Glasgow parish, as we reported in our newsletter some time back, and a letter in The Tablet, 26th December, 2009, revealed that a  funeral had been conducted in a Catholic Church in East Anglia, “In loving memory of N, dearly beloved friend and partner of M”… (signed by Rev. Brian Smith, an Anglican vicar who attended and was writing to urge the Church to recognise such same sex partnerships, and to “accept that the Body of Christ is moving on”…)

“Moving on” or “spiralling out of control…” ?

You are welcome to share your thoughts with us on this important subject. Click on ‘comments’ now.

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What IS “True Fidelity To Tradition”?

December 26, 2009 in International, United Kingdom, bishops, doctrine, sspx, tradition by editor | 36 comments

“Following their exchange in October, author Moyra Doorly and theologian Aidan Nichols discuss what true fidelity to Tradition consists of…”

Click here to read their exchange of correspondence which began, in this latest round, with the following opening paragraph from Moyra Doorly:

Dear Fr Aidan,

“We are ready to write the Creed with our own blood,” wrote SSPX Bishop Fellay in his December 15 2008 letter to Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos. Now I don’t know about anyone else, Fr Aidan, but to me this assertion is almost heart-stopping. After all, when was the last time in this apathetic and lukewarm age that a man of the Church spoke in such terms?”

Got it in one, Moyra.  Got it in one. Well, that’s what I think. What do YOU think?

Click on ‘comments’ to tell us how you’d answer the thread question:  what IS “true fidelity to Tradition”?

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Common Purpose: Life in Post-Democracy UK…

December 4, 2009 in International, Morality, Politics, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, parliament by editor | 34 comments

Although it has 80,000 trainees in 36 cities, 18,000 graduate members and enormous power, Common Purpose is largely unknown to the general public.  It recruits and trains “leaders” to be loyal to the directives of Common Purpose and the EU, instead of to their own departments, which they then undermine or subvert, the NHS being an example.  Click here to read more and then here to visit the Common Purpose website

Now  click here to view a talk by Brian Gerrish who is working hard to alert the general public to the activities of Common Purpose.

Then, if you’re still with us, click here to take a fresh look at the relationship to nation states of the European Union  post-Lisbon Treaty.   Note what this commentary says about the disappearance of Westminster (and, no doubt, Holyrood) and the suppression of future elections.

And finally, fully read and viewed, making sure you’ve put a wee drop of the hard stuff in your teacup, click on ‘comments’ with your thoughts. Is this just another “conspiracy theory” or does the fact of the widely and, who knows, deliberately unpublicised activities of Common Purpose speak for itself?  What’ll happen to the much lauded concept of  ”religious liberty” when the post-democracy leaders get their hands on it?

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Vatican: English Bishop Reprimanded

November 21, 2009 in Dissent, Sacraments, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, bishops by webmaster | 57 comments

Bishop Conry wrote: “In May of this year I wrote a letter to you all and suggested that you might go along to the priest and talk about the one thing that was the biggest obstacle in your relationship with God. Someone was clearly unhappy with this and reported this advice to the Vatican. I had a very kind letter from the Holy See asking me to correct the impression I might have given, and I am very happy to do this.”    Read more

Well? Is a “kind letter” from the Vatican sufficient to quell episcopal dissent at this stage in the crisis, or should some mitres now be seen to fall?  Click on ‘comments’ with your thoughts.

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Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother…

November 18, 2009 in Bible, International, Morality, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, tradition by webmaster | 25 comments

So the Government is to spend £670 million to offer free personal care for the most vulnerable elderly people in their own homes. Good, you may say. I’m not so sure. The more the state intervenes, the more we seem to treat the elderly with contempt.

The hallmark of a civilised society is the attention paid to the old, infirm and vulnerable. By that yardstick, Britain has become a disturbingly uncivilised, even brutal society. Many old people are abandoned by their families, dumped in sub-standard homes or left in hospital wards in a state of neglect http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=695

Well, what about Catholics.  Do we value the elderly?  Or are we as quick to consign our elderly relatives to care-homes in their final days, as any non-believer?

Click on ‘comments’ with your thoughts on this very important topic.

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November Newsletter – have your say…

November 3, 2009 in Dissent, International, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, bishops, church funds, ireland, sspx, tradition by webmaster | 67 comments

The November edition is online today. 
Click here to read the current newsletter

Comments welcome…

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