Sunday, October 23, 2005

Bishop Vasa's Curriculum for The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality from Rome

“The purpose of this program is to offer assistance to
parents based on the science of child development to form healthy and secure relationships with their children. The secure attachment relationship assures that children will develop with empathy, self-control, and harmonious personalities. The most important protection children have against developing aggressive and violent behaviors, including sexual abuse, is the empathic and nurturing secure attachment to their parents beginning in the first year of life. In turn, this same relationship protects children from becoming victims of abuse.”

- The Most Reverend Robert F. Vasa

In the quest to honor children and their parents and Our Lord.  There has been created "Healthy Families - Safer Children..  http://securechild.org/

Table of Contents

 Program I. Changing the Culture
Section One: The Crisis of Culture
Section Two: The Development of the Child
Section Three: Proactive Parenting for Safe and Moral Children
Program II. Child Development
Section One: Secure Attachment
Section Two: Insecure Attachments and Healing
Section Three: Adult Attachment Relationships
Program III. Authoritative Parenting
Section One: Discipline and Emotions
Section Two: Styles of Parenting
Section Three: The Marriage-Centered Family
Program IV. Moral Development
Section One: Moral Formation in Early Childhood
Section Two: Moral Emotions
Section Three: The Adolescent and Morality
Program V. The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality
Section One: Educating for Love and Chastity
Section Two: Sacred Parental Responsibilities
Section Three: Subsidiarity and Parents’ Rights
Program VI. Healing the Family, the Community, and Culture
Section One: Healing the Broken
Section Two: Healing the Parish and the Home

Section Three: Healing the Children


The way the Church teaches about love and intimacy is tangibly felt by reading the curriculum that our Archdiocese has chosen and the currculum of dignity in Healthy Families - Safer Children the Power of Relationships.  Catholic families can share a wholistic approach to teaching children .

Please read at least a little of this writing by Pope John Paul II. 


"Sex education, which is a basic right and duty of parents, must always be carried out under their attentive guidance, whether at home or in educational centers chosen and controlled by them. In this regard, the Church reaffirms the law of subsidiarity, which the school is bound to observe when it cooperates in sex education, by entering into the same spirit that animates the parents.

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