Friday, June 5, 2015
The Threat of (and to) Catholic parenting
The Pontifical Council of the Laity recently published Archbishop Chaput's remarks to his brother priests at their annual convocation in Philadelphia. The speech is worth reading in its entirety, of course, but this paragraph quoting Gerard Bradley was especially poignant...and frightening:
Professor Gerard Bradley of the University of Notre Dame School of Law is a constitutional scholar and a longtime friend of mine. Recently he shared with me his belief that “the most perilous [developing challenge that U.S. Catholics face] has to do with the establishment of ‘sexual health,’ ‘gender identity’ and ‘sexual self-determination’ as paramount goods even for children and minors — such that their parents and the Church become serious threats to these minors’ alleged well-being. In other words, Catholic parenting is in jeopardy of being branded, in relatively short order, as a kind of child abuse, a calumny against which our diminishing religious liberty protections will be thin shields.”
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2015/06/the-threat-of-and-to-catholic-parenting.html