The following comes from a February 20 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article by Nancy Cambria:
St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson has issued a letter calling on parishes to seek alternatives to Girl Scouts, arguing that the program and related organizations conflict with Roman Catholic teaching.
The Archdiocese of St. Louis isn’t directly kicking Girl Scout troops and activities off church properties, but is suggesting they and their cookies may no longer be welcome in the fold.
“Girl Scouts is exhibiting a troubling pattern of behavior and it is clear to me that as they move in the ways of the world it is becoming increasingly incompatible with our Catholic values,” Carlson wrote in a letter dated Thursday. “We must stop and ask ourselves — is Girl Scouts concerned with the total well-being of our young women? Does it do a good job forming the spiritual, emotional, and personal well-being of Catholic girls?”
The letter said issues such as reproductive rights and abortion separate the church from Girl Scouts and related organizations.
More than 4,000 Girl Scouts meet in Catholic churches in the region. An unknown number of girls who are Catholic attend troops outside of Catholic churches and schools.
Carlson’s letter does not mandate that parishes disband Girl Scout troops. Rather, it calls on them to seek alternatives.
“I am asking each pastor that allows Girl Scout troops to meet on parish property to conduct a meeting with troop leadership to review these concerns and discuss implementing alternative options for the formation of our girls,” Carlson wrote.
A question-and-answer page on an Archdiocesan website also asks parents to question whether they should condone a child joining the Girl Scouts as it conflicts with Catholic teaching.
“Can I still buy Girl Scout Cookies?” is also among the questions posted on the Archdiocesan website.
“Each person must act in accord with their conscience,” is the response. “It is also our duty to form our consciences and learn the issues.”
“Organizations that [Girl Scouts USA] promotes and partners with are in conflict with Catholic values, such as Amnesty International, Coalition for Adolescent Girls, OxFam and more. This is especially troubling in regards to sex education and advocacy for ‘reproductive rights’ (i.e. abortion and contraceptive access, even for minors),” Carlson wrote.
The GS have been demonic for quite some time. They once taught girls how to be ladies, while now the girls are being brainwashed into becoming amazons. The organization is all for sodomy and contraception, and not at all for motherhood. It teaches girls how to compete instead of being a compliment to masculinity. Homemaking as well as other feminine traits are ridiculed, but being forceful, rough, and combative are stressed as positive, Good riddance to these destroyers of Christian civilization.
Are you serious!?!?!
I sure hope this is your idea of satire. Also, I believe you mean “complement” rather than “compliment”.
It was the Catholic Church that elevated womanhood to a higher plane. Because of the Blessed Mother, women received a dignity that they were supposed to have since the Creation. But revolutions in the Church as well as in society, which are the work of Satan, have tried to make men and women equal. They are not the same; opposites attract, and that is why God made them male and female. Today, men are becoming like women, and women are becoming like men. Ave Maria Purrissima !
Sadly, I have refused to buy Girl Scout cookies, since the girls have all been betrayed and misled into filth! I am so sorry for their original founder! I always gently tell their leader, as to why I cannot buy their cookies, and hope to persuade the leader to change to a better organization for the girls, that supports God, Traditional Marriage and family, and country, and teaches them good values! Them I let the leader know, how THRILLED I would be, to buy whatever they might offer, if they could only all join a better group! I try to always be very kind, but truthful, with my words!
This brochure, put out by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, gives young girls lot of tips on sex, “all different types”. It is even “your right not to tell your partner if you have HIV”. Beware in reading this brochure — it is quite graphic.
file:///Users/margaretbartley/Documents/healthy_happy_hot.pdf
I have several printed copies of this document in my car so I can hand it out whenever I see GS cookies being sold.
https://usactionnews.com/2010/03/happy-healthy-and-hot-new-girl-scouts-sex-guide-by-planned-parenthood/
Finally, a Catholic Cardinal acting like a man, instead of the craven buffet-loving Girly-Men that carry a shepherd’s crozier (and who run, screaming, from the first sign of the wolf). Anna Maria Chavez, head of Girl Scouts (and Robert Gates of Boy Scouts) want nothing more than to sit atop a Planned Parenthood, abortion-loving, and free sex advocating organization. The GSA and BSA have pretty much abandoned any sort of moral posture, unless you count not having the ethical courage to shut the door on involvement by LGBT in their organizations. Time to leave.
You “Catholics” who thunder such harshness do so under fake profile names and total anonymity.
Arent you brave…..?!?
He never knew you
Kudos to the Archbishop. Anything, and everything that is harmful or dangerous to the Catholic faith must be avoided. The Act of Contrition says, ‘and to avoid the near occasions of sin’, therefore we must not allow our immortal souls the approximate danger that the girl scouts represent. The same is now sadly true about the boy scouts. Those who play with fire will get burned, and those who jostle with pigs will get dirty. By not associating with anti-Catholic groups, one can grow in the faith.
It is encouraging to see that one Bishop has the courage to speak up about the Girl Scouts. Google the Girl Scouts about their badge “Healthy, Hot and Happy” and how it educates young women on how to “pleasure themselves”, and other sexual activity. It is disgusting to put it mildly. I have not bought Girl Scout cookies for many years. Wake Up America. The Girl Scouts of today are not your mother’s Girl Scouts.
Peggy – you are so right about “Healthy, Hot and Happy”. I too will print out the article you mention and hand it out to the Mother’s selling cookies with their daughters. I would bet that the majority of them are not aware of PP involvement with the Girl Scouts of America. The brochure and information is disgusting. Delighted to see that a Bishop has the courage to speak out about this horrible organization and the information they are passing along to the young women of America.
Yes, Joel. We are serious. Google the website mentioned above and you will see how the Girl Scouts receive a badge “Healthy, Hot and Happy”. They are now instructed on how to “pleasure themselves” among other sexual activity. Is this what we want the young women of America to be learning. Wake up and pay attention to what is going on around. And think twice before purchasing GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. Planned Parenthood is very clever in how they are spreading their evil ways.
Thank you Peggy for your enlightening comments. I have known about “Healthy, Hot and Happy” for quite some time but never thought to print it out and hand it to the mother’s who are helping their young daughters to sell Girl Scout Cookies.
I would bet for the most part – they are not aware of this BADGE.
Amy.. I think you’re wrong abut the merit badge. I did a quick look through at the GS of America website and didn’t see it. hat seems to have happened ONLY is that in 2010 at a UN meeting of the WORLD GS orginization PP was allowed to pass out their HHH document. If someone can show me the badge infor b from a Girl Scout source I’ll stand corrected. I’m not sue any of this relates t what goes onin parish troops.
I was a former Boy Scout (Life) and supporter of Scouting in general, until the Gaystapo Targeted these institutions in a manner similar to the Church.
It is SSAD to see Children indoctrinated by the same type Gaystapo Thought Police who destroyed the Boy Scouts in Germany and forced all boys in to the ‘hitler youth’ – (which provided Boys to party leaders for partying (often intoxicated with blackmail pictures to finance the fun) – repeated all over again.
It is Time for New Organizations for helping Children and the Young – which do not Trash Church Teachings, to be instituted – aside from Catechism, which is specific to good faith formation – whereas Scouting used to be about Following the Golden Rules And Respecting God…
Yes, I am serious. Society has fallen into the sewer. God created women to be gentle and tender. They are supposed to nurse their young, and cuddle them. That is why their bodies are shaped the way God made them. Men were created to fight and to defend their families. That is what God planned. Look at the entertainment industry: women are fighting, using judo, and dressing like the ninja turtles. They no longer act feminine, and men are sissies. GS have helped wreck our society. .
I hope, for their sakes, that you don’t or never have children.
I’m sorry, but there’s nothing wrong with women doing Judo. What’s a woman supposed to do if a man attacks them while alone, scream “help me”? As a former Missouri state judo champion and competitor in multiple national level judo tournaments, I trained with many female judoka. Many grew to become athletic, yet feminine, women.
This story was on the CBS news on Sunday evening. Unfortunately, the Archbishop did not go on camera to further elucidate the reasons for his recommendation.
With all the items going on in this country my suggestion would be to start a Catholic group for girls with similar activities that the Girl Scouts offer that adhers to Catholic teachings. With more and more government envolvement there is going to be conflicts of morals etc so why not break away and start a Catholic run group before it really hits the news.
Maybe they can explore American Heritage Girls as an alternative. The AHG is quite explicit in its goals of forming young women into women after God’s own heart and there are specific badges geared for both Protestant and Catholic members.
Marie – a similar attempt was made for Boys with a Catholic “Scouting” group – but Copyright lawyers swooped in and that was that. So to I expect for Girl “Scouting” and its own trademarks and such.
We do need Catholic Friendly Institutions – Beyond the Church itself, lest we become too insular. However, taking our Witness in to the world can not be done with Caesar’s Coin or Rules – and too many try and fail miserably all around.
That said – Not Everything has to have a Religious Focus – We need to show how Faith Fits In to the World At Large.
Neo Catholics, Cino if you prefer, Our Lady, the model of Motherhood, would never deny that there is a grave difference between girls and boys. St. Joseph, the model of Fatherhood, taught Our Lord how to be a carpenter, not how to bake cookies, and cut out paper dolls. It is only since the Communist revolution that the distinction between male and female has been blurred. A child needs both a father and a mother in order to be properly raised My husband and I have raised several children, and they are all normal practicing Catholics.
Pilar – the Professional Rules of the Bar & ABA are even now being altered to Prohibit holders of Catholic Belief from Representing – or Being Represented.
SEE
CA Rule 2-400 Prohibited Discriminatory Conduct in a Law Practice
https://ethics.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/9/documents/CRRPC/RRC Final Docs/ProposedRulesofProfessionalConduct011014.pdf
ABA Midyear Meeting 2-8-16 https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/proposed_rule_making_workplace_bias_an_ethics_violation_doesnt_go_far_enoug/
The committee’s proposal to amend Model Rule 8.4 “moves beyond the comment to craft a distinct rule within the black letter of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting lawyers from engaging in harassment and knowing discrimination in conduct…
John Katich said that women left their kitchens to help him win an election, but that was a long time ago. What is the matter with working in the kitchen. God is more pleased with women in the home than on the battlefield. Women are becoming too masculine, and men are becoming too effeminate. God made us different. The Marxists together with the Girl Scouts want to change what God. created to remake it unnatural. Ave Maria Purrissima !
For crying out loud, WHO is John Katich???
If you can’t even be bothered to spell his name correctly, why should voters go to the polls for him?
I researched this topic and could not find a direct conflict between the local GSA and the Catholic Church. The worst I could find was some of the national women leaders were involved in supporting abortion and planned parenthood. Oh gee what a surprise, women who support abortion.
I should have typed KASICH. Ave Maria Purrissima !
The Girl Scouts help promote lesbianism and other sins that cry to Almighty God for vengeance. This once honorable institution has fallen, and has drunk the liberal cup of poison which is killing western civilizati0on.
[…] St. Louis Catholic Archbishop Robert J. Carlson is the latest to highlight the concern. In a letter this month, Carlson asked parishes to encourage their congregations to seek alternatives to the Girl Scouts because the group’s abortion connections go against Catholic teachings, according to California Catholic Daily. […]