Catholic and Loving it!

I really cannot say how this video came in to my posession, except that it did (I think I must have found it under a toadstool or something) I am reproducing it here because I sincerely believe that Catholic families across the country are being mislead and betrayed by the very people who are supposed to be helping them. The fact that the current Archbishop of Westminster has approved of this video makes it all the more important that people are aware of it's contents.

“Parents must politely but firmly exclude any attempts to violate children’s innocence because such attempts compromise the spiritual, moral and educational development of growing persons who have a right to their innocence.”

A note on copyright...

As far as I am aware I am not breaking the law by reproducing this video here. UK Copyright law has an exception known as "fair dealing"... "Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of criticism or review, of that or another work, or of a performance of a work, does not infringe copyright in the work, provided it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement, and provided the work has actually been made available to the public." I hereby acknowledge that I have not created this "work" and it was created by the Archdiocese of Birmingham Department of Religious Education. I am not reproducing it in full, so it cannot be used in the classroom and I am not selling it or seeking to profit from it. I am reproducing it only for the purpose of criticism.

Notes on the video...

The full video is sixteen minutes long, I have edited it down to four. I have focused on the sex education components and the "spiritual" ones. As this film has been produced by a Roman Catholic Archdiocese and approved of by Archbishop Vincent Nichols himself, I have been careful to retain all references to Scripture and Church teaching. If you feel that there are not many references to Scripture and Church teaching in the video then this is because there are not many to begin with and not because I have left any out. I have left in some sections about moving to a new school in order to help give a bit of context about how young the children watching this video really are.

Nine years old.

This video contains computer simulated full frontal nudity and while Archbishop Vincent Nichols may approve of it being shown to primary school Children, you may prefer to watch it when there are no children around.

The only Catholic thing I can find in that whole video is the Catholic School in the background towards the end.

Catholic content...

The whole thing is profoundly secular and doesn't contain a single bible quote even a passing reference to Christianity or even God (there is an Archbishop in the Credits). Instead there is a sort of secular spirituality layered on top... "We saw that this inner happiness and peace can radiate outwards and can in turn invite and spread friendship" The video carries not even a tiny hint of where inner happiness and peace is to be found.

Gratuitous nudity...

Then there's the nude bodies flying at the screen. What are they for? There is absolutely nothing educational about them at all. I am quite sure that if a man on the street were found showing such pictures to nine year old girls he would be arrested.

I don't want to write too much more because I think the video speaks for itself. I know what I think, what I want to know is...

What do you think?

Update: Jackie Parkes has lots more information on this here.