https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2018/12/17/gender-diversity-issues-guide-for-schools/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:26:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2018/12/17/gender-diversity-issues-guide-for-schools/#comment-22543 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:26:50 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=18916#comment-22543 The ten commandments have taken a beating with Television and other motion picture, which uses violence or gratuitous sex to entice and enslave unruly passions, into stygian depths of depravity. The flow on is invariably Catholic institutions which have one option: To reject abhorrent nonsense as they have done on the past, drawing on the ascetical and mystical theologies of church writers, and the example of saints and martyrs.
Tragically also various heresies have risen from modernism to New Age, and these have impacted onto religious bodies aiming to reduce their effectiveness.
When such new tensions and polarities occur, it becomes increasingly difficult to argue the case for orthodoxy, and for a conservative approach which suits protections of vulnerable people, particularly marginalised, and instead, a new set of alternatives are provided which have at their base more of an ideologically driven narrative, an atheistic promulgation which takes the extrinsic for a run without any real interest in values or the intrinsic which underpins these values. The soul is simply not part of the equation. The supernatural is simply not a reality. This is why vigilance is an absolute must before laws appear as they have done in places like Canada which are geared to enthrone an “Anti-God” religion and from this mediocrity to entrench a bureaucracy which will absorb ordinary people taxes, and simply supply a feeder system for anything which is not of Judeo-Christian origin. This has all been going on for a long time- from the early sixties, with modernism as a real heresy as far back as Pope St Pius X. The public or the faithful as they should be called is not as well educated and simply trusting “the system” because everybody else is doing so. It is an understatement to say that the matter is serious. Whole countries are caught up with it, and like the toad in cold water with the temperature, rising have no idea how they are being slowly cooked. Clergy have to be vigilant also, and not finish up “managers” as Pope Francis put it. Simple common sense, old-fashioned as it may seem to be has to be used.

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