Cardinal Gagnon calls the “New Creation Series” morally offensive
July 1989
In a letter he wrote to other families, who also objected to the “New Creation Series,” Cardinal Edward Gagnon, Prefect for The Pontifical Council for the Family, supported parents, and condemned the “New Creation Series.” The Cardinal was not supported by his brother cardinals at the Congregation for Education and the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. He urged parents to write in protest. I did by writing Cardinal Ratzinger 1989.
PONTIFICIUM CONSILIUM PRO FAMILIA
0012 Stato Citta Del Vaticano
Prot. N. 12189 Vatican City, July 27, 1989
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Braverman
37 Wawonda Avenue
Liberty, N.Y. 12754
U.S.A.Dear Friends,
I am in receipt of your kind letter of June 26th together with the relative documentation regarding the “New Creation Series.”
The recently published letters of Cardinals Ratzinger and Baum do not change my previous opinion, nor that of this Pontifical Council for the Family, about the New Creation Series.
You bring to my attention the fact that the New Creation Series in both its original and revised editions, recommends authors and books which are objectionable. I am well aware of this. It is but one of the points about the New Creation Series which makes this series for sex education morally offensive. This serious defect of the Series cannot have been taken into account in the judgment rendered in the recent letters of the above Cardinal Prefects.
As parents. I would suggest that you forward your reasons for concern to the Prefects of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Catholic Education.
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. With my own prayerful best wishes and blessing, I remain
Sincerely in Jesus and Mary,
Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, p.s.e.
PRESIDENT
Table of Contents
- Oxymoron Introduction: Crocodile Tears – Are the Bishops Really Sorry
- Summary of Church Teachings in Oxymoron
- Oxymoron Critiques Submitted to Cardinal Law
- The Complete Letters of Alice Grayson to Cardinal Law
- First Review by Alice Grayson to Cardinal Law
- July 1989 – Cardinal Gagnon calls the “New Creation Series” morally offensive.
- August 1989 – I Request Help from Cardinal Ratzinger
- Fall 1990 – Asking for Help Again
- 1988 – My review of “Understanding of Sex and Sexuality” by Alice A. Grayson
- February 1991 – Address to the Belmont School Committee
- Winter 1990 – Spring 1991, Critique of Sex Education Guidelines
- June 24, 1991 – Comprehensive Letter to Cardinal Law
- Spring 1991 – Letters to Rome, Copies to Cardinal Law
- July 12, 1991 – Cardinal Law replies to my letter of June 24th and promises action.
- August 12, 1991 – Cardinal Law’s action
- September 11, 1991 – I felt betrayed by Monsignor Murphy
- December 6, 1991 – Monsignor Murphy washes his hands.
- January 1992 – The buck stops here!
- January 24, 1992 – I submitted an alternative suggestion to Cardinal
- January 30, 1992 – More Baloney
- February 4, 1992 – Cardinal Law must have felt uneasy.
- Spring 1992 – An abbreviated Answer
- Spring 1992 – The mysterious letter of Bishop Riley
- Spring 1992 – James Likoudis
- February 1993 – Catholic Classroom Sex Education is an Oxymoron
- March 9, 1993 – The Archdioscean Newspaper
- April 7, 1992 – My second letter to The Pilot
- April 7, 1993 – No! No! No!
- September 2, 1993 – Cardinal Law’s Action in Resolving Oxymoron
- September 27, 1993 – Murphy
- March 8, 1994 – Cardinal Law’s Reply to Oxymoron
- May 4, 1994 – My Challenge to Cardinal Law
- May 4, 1994 – An analysis of Cardinal Law’s Response
- May 4, 1994 – Complaint to Pope John Paul II.
- August 1994 – Dr. Gerald Benitz writes to Cardinal Law
- August 24, 1994 – Msgr. William Murphy, Vicar General of the Boston Archdiocese
- February 23, 1995 – Observation of the persistence in sex education
- March 14, 1995 – Monsignor Murphy asks me to quit writing the Archdiocese
- April 4, 1995 – I quit writing the Archdiocese
- 1998 – The last communication with Cardinal Law
- June 27, 2004 – The current battle for the children