Here’s What is really behind
“Safe Environment Programs”
Safe Environment Programs were created as a result of the sexual abuse scandal within the Catholic Church in the United States. The programs are a sham.
1. The Safe Environment concept was created by a class of people within the Church, the Bishops, who had first hand knowledge of the sexual abuse that went unchecked for decades within the Church. They not only did nothing to stop the sexual preying upon young Catholic children, they participated in it to the extent that they moved the predators around from parish to parish to find fresh victims. In Boston, Cardinal Bernard Law (who escaped to Italy) blamed the scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston on “poor record keeping.”
2. It is the Bishops who cleverly came forward with “Safe Environment Programs.” These programs are supposed to educate young children to be more aware and not fall into the hands of sexual predators. The programs are enhanced Sex Education programs, which have been banned for decades by the Church in many famous documents, which can be found on our web site. Most U. S. Bishops are now mandating “Safe Environment” programs for implementation in Catholic schools and Catechism programs.
3. The U. S. Bishops set up a Charter for The Protection of Children and Young People through their United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). They hired former F.B.I. Special Agent, Kathleen McChesney, to run the Office of Child and Youth Protection within the USCCB. McChesney has stated that it is not mandatory that “Safe Environment” programs be implemented for children in Catholic schools and Catechism programs. She acknowledged fundamental parental rights. Too bad the Bishops haven’t!
4. There appears to be pressure on individual Bishops to submit to the USCCB Office of Child and Youth Protection. Because they are being cowered to conform to implementation of all the aspects of the “Safe Environment” programs, individual Bishops have eroded their own sacred duty to pastor their flock autonomously in harmony with the universal Church. Everyone is running scared because of the sexual abuse scandal.
5. Most things are wrong with these programs. “Safe Environment” programs are like classroom sex education programs on steroids. They are supposed to turn little children into pint-sized sexual detectives. The kids get immersed in learning about perversion and depravity (Gee, isn’t that what you talk to your kids about around the dinner table, and before bed?) at a point in their lives when they should be out playing ball, selling lemonade and enjoying the joys of innocence. Instead they all get thrown into the sexual molestation pot, as if they are ready to go through “Predator Boot Camp.” As a result these sweet little children have their modesty and innocence poisoned, stripped away forever, as they are immersed in a perverted world of sexuality and danger – in violation of the consistent teachings of the Church. The desensitized children become more vulnerable to predators. And what do the predators say? – that they can still get the kids anyway.
6. Children are supposed to feel that they can handle the predators because they have been through the “Safe Environment” courses. This is nonsense of course. What they really experience is the undermining of trust in all adults because they do not have the ability to interpret. This also deflects blame away from the bishops – whose priests’ homosexual abuse of young adolescent boys accounted for over 80% of the scandals in the Church. Do you think that all the sexual abuse within the U. S. Catholic Church is known? This also gives the Bishops the out and protects and excuses them from their responsibility. They can claim that kids “should have known better, after having taken the Safe Environment programs.”
7. And guess who makes a profit on the sale of the “Safe Environment Programs” that the parishes buy? You guessed it. The Bishops! First the Bishops created the sexual molestation, and then fostered it by the transfers of predator priests from parish to parish. (“Poor record keeping” indeed!) Now the Bishops get to make a profit off the sale of the “Safe Environment Programs,” which, incidentally, fund insurance programs that pay off the families of children who may be molested in the future. Is this a case of having your cake and eating it too?
8. Meanwhile the kids, who have been learning about penises, clitoral stimulation, oral sex and masturbation for decades in so-called catholic classroom sex education courses, are being taught really ugly concepts by the creators of the “Safe Environment” programs. These authors line up more with Planned Parenthood and abortion rights groups than those Catholics who have been faithfully supporting the Church for decades (while their sons and daughters have been sexually molested in a free-for-all by priests!). What a joke. On one hand you have the Bishops, who helped expand the sexual scandal, go into business with those who despise the doctrine of the Church. Meanwhile our children get a real taste of the dirty side of life, become desensitized, and only God will know what emotional problems and scars our blessed children may have from it. It would be like having the U.S. Government giving terrorist weapons paid for by loyal citizen tax dollars.
9. As tragic as it is to have little children in the hands of the money changers on both sides of the aisle, there is a more profound, an even deeper tragedy. The concept of the “Safe Environment” programs is yet another step backwards for the faith and stability of the Holy Church. The Bad guys. The confused. The predators. The easy way outers. The Liberals. Whatever you want to call them, they have created this downward moral unholy spiral within our Holy Church. The link between Our Savior and the Church continues to be twisted and deformed.
Where will future priests come from? Their numbers are at an all time low. Who will stand up for faith and morals? Who will take the blame for the destruction of the souls of our children? What did Jesus say about children? Don’t ask a predator priest! What happens to Bishops who try to buck the system?. Parents may be the only people left who can take a stand. Is God calling to us to do so? Is Mary weeping that we may not take this stand ? Are the Saints crying? Do Holy Tears rain down?
Parents – please think wisely about having your children attend “Safe Environment” programs. Even the name of the program has been designed to suck your children into this unholy web. Even worse, it’s a big profitable business. Dollars and cents. Everyone makes a buck, children are ruined, the Church slides further down the slippery slope.
Ironically, the bishops do not realize that had they been faithful to their vocation – to preach the faith and sanctify souls- they actually had in place a proper, appropriate , “safe environment” program which dovetails to the parents’ sacred mission. The prayers speak of “delivering from evil,” “pray for us now,” and “The Lord is my shepherd.”
If they had fostered innocence, they would advise parents to to teach children about their guardian angels and Our Lady Most Pure. They would have daily Mass at the Catholic schools and urge parents to put holy water in the kids’ back packs, rosaries and holy cards in their pockets,and scapulas on their chests.
It stands to reason that parents cannot be with their children all of the time. We know children cannot defend themselves. If danger is present, the answer is not a Palagian safety program, but confidence in prayer and our holy Faith. “Where evil abounds, grace more abounds.” Let us return to the fonts of grace.