Veil Declaration

A coalition of parents, priests, religious, and educators safeguarding the
innocence of children and the teachings of the Catholic Faith.

– Declaration –

Pope John Paul II proclaimed
January 20, 1994

In a particular way, lay believers, men and women, are called to testify to Christian family life and defend the values of this primordial cell of society against the threats of today.1

All attempts to describe the sexual act fail to transmit essential content: all descriptions, drawings, photographs become pornography, since they cannot render the great interior dimension but show only one dimension, thereby degrading this sublime act. . . . It is mystery, and that is precisely what the children must be told: these matters are so great that they are indescribable…silence in sexual matters . . . may give more real wisdom than irresponsible talking.2

The parents’ vocation in the education of their children through marital grace is indeed original and primary with regard to the educational role of others on account of the uniqueness of the loving relationship between parents and children: and it is irreplaceable and inalienable, and therefore incapable of being entirely delegated to others or usurped by others.3

…if representatives of the Church, who should be the great protectors of the sacred rights of the individual and of the family, act in a totalitarian way (and thereby exhibit the worst type of clericalism), it is simply treason, a denial of the spirit of the Church and of the spirit of Christ. It is a complete abdication in front of the spirit of the world. 4.

Parents, together with our priests, religious, and educators, hold that classroom sex education is an assault on the family. Knowing full well that every public disclosure of sex is an intrusion into the private life of the child, we come together to affirm we will not accept classroom sex education, called by any number of pseudo names. Contrary to the Pope Pius XI’s 1929 Encyclical, Divini illius magistri, and the Pontifical Council of the Family’s document called Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines Within the Family, The Pontifical Council for the Family has betrayed families and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church with its recent publication and promotion of an extremely impure classroom sex education program called, The Meeting Point:Course of Affective Sexual Education for Young People.

We protest in the strongest terms and we are determined to expose its danger. We call upon the Pontifical Council of the Family and Pope Francis to withdraw this program at once, and to reaffirm Pope Pius XI’s ban on classroom sex education.

Abbey St. Joseph de Clairval, Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, France. Newsletter, June 11, 1995.
Church and Human Sexuality, November 1985, Linacre Quarterly;
Dr.Wanda Poltawska (Pontifical Council For the Family, Rome).
Pope John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, Art. 36, 1981, Rome.
Dietrich von Hildebrand and William Marra, Sex Education the Basic Issues and Related Essays, Veil of Innocence (veilofinnocence.org), 2001, p.14

Signatures here: Alice Ann Grayson, Veil of Innocence

By agreeing to sign the Veil Declaration:

You recognize the Holy Father’s teachings. You witness agreement with the Declaration’s content, and earnestly seek to join the growing number of people who recognize the essential harm inflicted on children through classroom Sex Education.