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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm reminded of my time in CCD. Around 7th grade, we had a year that was focused on sex ed. A member of the church who worked as an RN led the class that year. Each week, the first 10 minutes were spent on the Catholic Church's official stance on the topic at hand. The remaining hour and 20 minutes were spent on reality.

We spent a lot of time talking about birth control methods, including all of the reasons you should never trust the Catholic-approved forms of "family planning."

Abortion even came up, although she walked a pretty delicate line that week.[/quote]

That’s kind of wild.

Although I taught CCD for a few years, and it’s surprising how little instruction you get on what to teach every week.
I’m a psychiatrist and work with chronically suicidal patients who go in and out of the hospital a lot.  I did a lot of DBT and was really impressed with how meditation helped my patients.  So, I taught the CCD kids to pray the rosary and took them to the adoration chapel.  We talked a lot about how to control your mind and how to use prayer to quiet your mind.   
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I'm not sure why you call that "wild." There was a great deal of support for that in the parish. That year, parents came every week, and one of the nuns was almost always there. Occasionally the priest came in, too. He didn't say much, but he was clearly supportive.

I always appreciated that, on the things that mattered most, the parish tried to do the right thing regardless of what the Vatican might say. That probably is why the priest was later removed by the archbishop, although at least they replaced him with someone with the same philosophy.

This was in a small town in midwest in the 90s.[/quote]

I think you might be remembering something that happened a couple of times as something that happened every week for a year.

I’ve never met a priest who didn’t say much and let other people have the mic :).  He sounds like an interesting man!
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It was a very memorable experience, mostly because it wasn't at all what any of us expected.

While there's probably been a selection effect based on who has chosen to remain active in the Catholic church, there are obviously significant variations between what people believe in the church. At all levels in the church, as we've seen in recent years.[/quote]

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