Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov 18, 2004 / 22:00 pm
The Vicar of Education for the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, Father Juan Alberto Torrella, took part in a meeting at the legislative offices of the city of Buenos Aires, during which he called for the government’s controversial sex-ed program “to include the beliefs and values of parents,” because “there is no such thing as neutral sex-ed, with neither beliefs nor values.”
“To educate and to be educated is to travel on a road to perfection, it is a process of humanization, and I would say in a Christian sense, of divinization,” said Father Torrella.
“Behind all educational processes is a vision of what the human being is: it is not the same to conceive of him as pure matter, as a collection of feelings or as a biological-psychological-spiritual being. These concepts all give way to educational styles, goals, different expectations and diverse ideals,” he added.
“We cannot address sex-ed without knowing what I want to do with my life and who I am and what I am called to be. All education,” he continued, “is governed by these criterions: What kind of human being do I wish to be? Why do I do what I do?”