AS THEY GROW OLDER, (CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE) SHOULD RECEIVE A POSITIVE AND PRUDENT EDUCATION IN MATTERS RELATING TO SEX.1
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Vatican Council II, Declaration on Christian Education, Flannery, ed., no. 1, p. 727.
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United States Catholic Conference, Education in Human Sexuality for Christians, 1981 (emphasis added).
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Cited by SzaszThomas, professor of psychiatry, Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Penthouse, Jan., 1981.
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BeachPaul Cole, and LidoudisJames, “Sex Education: The New Manicheanism,”Child and Family, vol. 10, nos. 3 and 4, pp. 242–259; pp. 314-329. (Reprinted from Triumph, Nov., 1969, pp. 11-19).
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Supra, 3.
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EickhoffLouise F. W., “Sex Education and Sex Practice,”Child and Family, vol. 13, no. 1 (1974), pp. 41–51.
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Family Practice News, April 1, 1979, p. 43.
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WeisnerPaul J., M.D., director of the Center for Disease Control's Venereal Disease Division, American Medical News, Dec. 1, 1978, p. 14.
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DiamondEugene F., M.D., “Teaching Sex to Children,”Columbia, June, 1981, p. 34.
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Supra, 2.
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Mathtech, Inc. (funded by CDC), “An Analysis of United States Sex Education Programs and Evaluating Methods,”The Phyllis Schlafly Report, Feb., 1981.
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EngelRandy, “Sexology and the United States Catholic Conference,”The Wanderer, May 28, 1981.
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ThompsonScott D., National Association of Secondary School Principals' Newsletter, vol. 28, no. 8 (April, 1981).
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The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, in a recent letter to the bishops of the United States, commented on the United States Catholic Conference document, “Education in Human Sexuality for Christians.”
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Pius XI, Pope, encyclical, On the Christian Education of Youth.
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Pius XII, Pope, addresses of Sept. 23, 1951 and April 13, 1953; Pope Paul VI, address of Sept. 13, 1972.
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Supra, 15.
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L'Osservatore Romano, English edition, March 2, 1981, p. 5.
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Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium, article 49 (emphasis added).
