Bishop silences faithful priest for objecting to graphic sex-ed program

Bishop silences faithful priest for objecting to graphic sex-ed program...

"A foul situation has come about in the schools, both public and private. They are now teaching sex education, My children. And this is a debauchery of your young souls. Parents, are you so blind that you do not investigate, or ask your children what has happened in their classes today at school?" - Our Lady of the Roses, September 27, 1986

LifeSiteNews reported on March 6, 2006:

Rev. Robert Altier, pastor of St. Agnes Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been ordered by his bishop to cease posting his homilies on his website or broadcast his views on the radio. His offense has been his outspoken criticism of a program instituted by his Archdiocese, ostensibly to protect children from sexual abuse.

The program, Talking About Touching, has been widely criticized by parents and concerned clergy as explicit sex education and threatening to the innocence of children. Talking About Touching has, however, received endorsements from Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion, anti-family advocates.

A notice is posted on Fr. Altier’s website, “In obedient compliance with the expressed written request of Most Reverend Harry J. Flynn, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Father Altier’s homilies and spiritual presentations can no longer be published on http://www.desertvoice.org or broadcast on Relevant Radio. This action of the Archbishop is not related to any scandal or sexual misconduct on the part of Father Robert Altier.”

Archdiocesan spokesman, Dennis McGrath confirmed that the silencing is not for any impropriety. “Father Altier is an honored priest, and has not committed any improprieties.” McGrath added that Archbishop Flynn will not discuss the issue publicly because it is a “personnel matter, but I surmise that Father Altier's contrarian position on Virtus is the issue.”

St. Agnes parish is world-renowned as a bastion of traditional liturgy and for the fidelity to the teaching of the Catholic Church of Fr. Altier’s homilies.

“Any communication between a priest and the archbishop is personal and confidential,” McGrath said. “But obviously there is a point of disagreement there someplace in his homilies or some of the things on the radio.”

A spokesman for Catholic Parents Online, an advocacy group trying to persuade the Archbishop to adhere more closely to Vatican norms in areas affecting family life, said the program was a threat to children’s innocence. John Trojack wrote, it “follows secular guidelines in exposing children 18 months or older to sexually explicit descriptions of private body parts and descriptions of sexual situations.” Children, during their “years of innocence (until puberty) . . . must never be disturbed by unnecessary information about sex.”

Catholic Parents Online has scheduled a Lenten retreat day for April 1, featuring three talks and Mass to be celebrated by Fr. Altier.

Talking about Touching is part of the Archdiocese’ Virtus training program and is required of all clergy, deacons, school and parish employees and volunteers who are in regular contact with children, youth and vulnerable adults. The children’s curriculum is taught to children in Catholic schools from pre-school to grade twelve. Pastors who want to use some other program must apply to Archbishop Flynn and the Archdiocese says parents can opt their children out of the curriculum.

The silencing of Fr. Altier sharply contrasts with Archbishop Flynn’s policy of turning a blind eye to open dissent from fundamental Catholic teaching in other parishes of his diocese and in his own cathedral. In December 2004, Flynn claimed that he had Vatican approval to welcome the homosexual activist group, The Rainbow Sash, to receive Communion in St. Paul Cathedral during their protests against Church teaching on homosexuality.

Archbishop Flynn was included in a list of US Catholic prelates who were personally thanked by the Rainbow Sash movement for their support of the homosexual agenda within the Church.

In October, 2004, the Vatican made the extremely rare move of intervening directly in the case of the notorious “gay parish” in Flynn’s jurisdiction, St. Joan of Arc. Rome ordered the parish to remove Gay Pride material from its website and cease inviting non-Catholic speakers to Masses. The parish currently includes a “GBLT” page on its website where the homosexual lifestyle and the adoption of children by homosexual partners is commended.

In April 2004, Catholic Parents Online requested that Archbishop Flynn intervene at St. Joan of Arc to defend Catholic teaching on sexuality. Flynn curtly dismissed their request saying, “I must remind you that I am the Archbishop and choose to influence in a different manner than you and many of the people who would write to me. I think it is totally unfair of you to engage others in these letter-writing, e-mail campaigns…I would ask further that you not call and ask for an appointment concerning this.”

Contact Archbishop Flynn:
226 Summit Avenue
Saint Paul, MN, USA 55102
(651) 291-4400
communications@archspm.org

Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Archdiocese Facing Parent Complaints over “Talking about Touching” Sex-Ed Program
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06022806.html

Vatican Intervenes in Minneapolis Catholic "Gay Pride" Parish
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/oct/04102806.html

Parents Continue to Object to Diocesan Child Protection Programs
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/feb/04020605.html

The amazing Bayside Prophecies...
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

Sex Education In Schools
Our Lady - "A foul situation has come about in the schools, both public and private. They are now teaching sex education, My children. And this is a debauchery of your young souls. Parents, are you so blind that you do not investigate, or ask your children what has happened in their classes today at school? Show you no interest as you go about the world gathering materialism, and seeking to break your home apart by husband and wife going in both directions; neither do they work together to hold the home together, but they work apart, many leaving the children astray by not having counsel over them."
"My child and My children, I tell you now: All that I have told you in the past will come to pass. There will be great punishments set upon earth. The United States and Canada shall not escape. They have been actually sentenced by the Eternal Father to many calamities that will befall them very shortly. The Father in Heaven feels in this manner shall they bring many back to the fold. It is not an angry God Who speaks to you, My children, but a sorrowful One. All of our hearts in Heaven, and the hearts of the saints, are saddened at what is to come upon mankind.(9-27-86)

Sex Education - Obligation Of Parents
Jesus - "My child, I do not wish to burden you any longer with the miseries upon earth. I wish to talk only a while, a little bit, about the children of earth, the young children. The parents must be very careful, My children, who you send your children to be taught from. Much evil is being developed in the schools in the name of sexuality. Why cannot we have our children pure of thought and mind? How can we, My children, when the teachers there are being taught to bring in sex education to your children? This belongs not in the schools, but in the homes. This is an obligation of the parents. It will only lead to much greater disaster by having this sex education in the school system." (10-2-87)

No Sex Education In Schools
Jesus - "My child, I know much of this discourse distresses your heart, but you can imagine well - and I know you do, My child Veronica - the sorrow My Mother feels now that sex education has entered upon the school system. We say unto you, and I say to you, as your God, My children: Mothers and fathers of the world, you will not give over your children to be taught by demons! Satan has many loosed upon earth now. They enter into the bodies of any man, woman or child who has fallen out of grace; and they enter into the bodies of those who teach your children error.
"It is the place and the will of the Eternal Father that the home shall be the safeguard for the children's souls - the mother, the father. But what can We expect, My children, when even the state of marriage, the sacrament of Marriage, is being destroyed slowly? We know all that is going on upon earth - living together without unions under God. No, My children, that shall also be destroyed in time; if not by sickness and death of the body, it will also be by sickness and death of the soul!
"My children, it was never deemed by Heaven, nor the Eternal Father - as written in the good Book of life and love, your Bible, that man shall not cohort with man; man shall not cohabit with man, and man shall not seek diversion from his home by setting out to seduce another.
"My child, and My children, are there many strong homes left in the United States, Canada, and many homes of the world? No, My children, the standards have been lowered. And when the standards are lowered, satan takes over." (6-6-87)

Sex Education - Private Discourse Between Children And Parents
St. Theresa - "The mind and the eyes are the mirror of the soul. Therefore, you will cast your eyes upon goodness and holiness and purity. You will not watch the infernal machine - your television. You will not read books of sex education, books that do not belong in your schools! They are a private discourse between children and parents.
"The Eternal Father finds abominations and sins, soul - sins and matter of sins of the flesh, being committed because of the false teachers who now have set themselves in the House of God." (10-2-75)

Directives from Heaven...
D167 - The Family - Part 1 PDF
D168 - The Family - Part 2 PDF
D183 - Sex Education PDF

Articles...

Archdiocese facing parent complaints over "Talking about Touching" sex-ed program
http://www.tldm.org/news9/sexedtalkingabouttouching.htm

Scottish Cardinal calls sex-ed "child abuse"
http://www.tldm.org/news7/SexEducation2.htm

Links…

Cardinal's anger at sex lessons, U.K. Guardian, August 30, 2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1293386,00.html

Mother’s Watch web site:

http://www.motherswatch.org/

Home schooling illegal in California? August 19, 2002

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28644

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