By Nomusa Cembi
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, has described the South African constitution as "fiercely anti-life through its drive to promote contraception, abortion on demand and same-sex marriages".
He was speaking to Catholic educators at a conference at Sacred Heart College in Johannesburg at the weekend.
The constitution, he said, was being placed above all else, replacing the wisdom drawn from the human family and what had been there for generations.
'Human beings cannot function without a deity' "Human beings cannot function without a deity," Napier said.
People were not challenging these aspects of the constitution because they did not want to be seen as unpatriotic, undemocratic and racist.
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"It's not on," Napier said. "It's against nature. It is against what marriage was intended for - to have children. That kind of activity cannot bring life. There is no way we can give a person the right to do something that is morally wrong."
Napier said while there was a vision for Catholic education, it was equally critical to keep an eye on what was happening in general education.
He said general education was marked by violence, lack of respect, loss of respect for traditional values, lack of delivery of resources and a lack of delivery of quality education.
There was evidence to show that general education had a vision but it was ideologically based and pushed by the ruling party.
General education had excluded God, especially His role in human affairs.
Napier also said there was a campaign to make churches critical of government.
The root cause of the malaise in general education resulted from the denial of God.
Napier said the necessary response to this would be to draw out in children what was in them: the core values of every religion and in any spirituality.
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