NEW ORLEANS, October 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A number of sex-education books, which received approval from the US Bishops Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of the Catechism, have been ordered out of Catholic schools in New Orleans. Many US Catholic parents have expressed serious concerns over the “Growing in Love” elementary school sex-ed program. After receiving such concerns, the Archdiocese issued a memo to parishes and schools forbidding them from purchasing any of the materials other than the student text.
LifeSite has obtained a copy of the July 27 memo which bans all but one of the four Growing in Love texts. The memo states: “This clarification has been occasioned by the discovery that there are serious difficulties with the parent materials prepared by Harcourt Religion Publishers for Growing In Love text. The parent materials called Family Resources have been reviewed by the Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for the Use of the Catechism. These materials go far beyond what the Church has in mind in providing moral education in human sexuality. Hence even though they currently have an imprimatur, they are not to be used in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.”
The Growing in Love teaching guide exemplifies the graphic and inappropriate information presented in the series. The teaching guide delivers sensitive sexual content to pre-adolescent children, including describing in graphic detail sexual intercourse to 10 year old children and introducing the topic of “sexual intercourse” to 8 year old children.
(with files from Catholic Parents Online)
For more on Growing in Love see Catholic Parents Online at: https://www.catholicparents.org/notlspring01.html