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June 18, 2020 Call Recording

A generation ago, Christian parents didn’t have to worry about how to explain transgenderism to their nine-year-old, or help their teen deal with mockery at school for believing that marriage is between a man and woman. Today we have no choice but to equip our kids to understand and to own the truth about such issues– truth that used to be self-evident.

Leila will speak about her book Made This Way (co-authored with Trent Horn of Catholic Answers), which offers parents, grandparents, teachers, and youth leaders crucial tools and techniques to form children with the understanding they need, always appropriate to their age and maturity level and in accordance with Church directives.

The secret to teaching effectively lies in an approach that begins not with the Bible or Church teaching–as crucial as those are–but with the Natural Law, the secret weapon that the Church has used for millennia to teach the moral law, but which has been shelved in past decades. The nature of male and female, and the nature of human sexuality, must make sense to a child or teen,or they will go with what the culture teaches. If we’re not teaching our children how to understand tough moral issues, then the world will.

Leila’s talk will seek to address these problems and how to reach children with the truth.

BIO:  Leila Miller is a Catholic wife and mother. She and her husband Dean have eight children (ages 28 to 10) and 10 grandchildren. Leila was a poorly-catechized Catholic who almost left the Church before her reversion in her twenties. Since then, she has taught the Faith for 25 years. Her first blog, the popular Little Catholic Bubble, ran for eight years, and her books include Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today’s Tough Moral Issues (co-authored with Trent Horn of Catholic Answers); Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak; Raising Chaste Catholic Men; and Impossible Marriages Redeemed: They Didn’t End the Story in the Middle. Leila has been featured on Catholic and secular print media, radio, and television. Leila’s current blog can be found at LeilaMiller.net, and she and her family live in Phoenix, Arizona.

Date:  April 16, 2020

Listen to Presentation

Intro to Teen STAR PDF

Teen STAR is a curricular program that teaches young people about sexuality and affectivity.  When adolescents and young adults learn about their bodies and fertility in conjunction with principals of Natural Law and the teachings of Human Vitae and the Theology of the Body, they learn to appreciate and value what has been given to them, to make better decisions about how to use these gifts and become integrated human beings:  balancing the physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and social aspects of their lives.

Date:  February 20, 2020

– Burnell PDCC Presentation

– 2-20-2020 PDCC PPT

– CCC Public School Parent Rights Responsibilities; Sexual Health Education

– What You Need to Know about the CA Healthy Youth Act

Description:  Implementation of comprehensive sexual health education in public schools, per the ‘California Healthy Youth Act’, is of concern to a growing number of Catholic families. This presentation will provide: 1) an understanding of the extent parents can legally supervise the sexual health education of their public school children in California, and 2) discuss ways the Church can empower parents to address this issue.

Below are the Catholic web​sites addressing the Healthy Youth Act and comprehensive sexual health education

California Catholic Conference:  https://www.cacatholic.org/policies-issues/education/what-you-need-know-about-ca-healthy-youth-act

Diocese of Sacramento:  https://www.scd.org/loveandliberty  {Most Recent}

Diocese of San Diego:  https://www.sdcatholic.org/sex-education/

Diocese of San Bernardino:  https://www.sbrlpc.org/sex-education/

Archdiocese of San Francisco:  https://sfarchdiocese.org/myfamilyrights

Raymond Burnell serves as the Director of Education the California Catholic Conference (CCC).  In this capacity, he leads, develops, and manages advocacy efforts on state and federal public policy issues related to the Conference’s education agenda. This agenda extends from early childhood development, through a students’ elementary and high school learning, and into opportunities for college and career technical education. Ray engages in direct as well as indirect lobbying, government relations, and public affairs in advocating legislative priorities.

Additionally he supervises and administrates related initiatives, events, and activities of the CCC and its affiliated organizations.

With his Master in Public Administration from Arizona State University, and a Master in Education from the University of San Francisco, Ray has thirty-five years of experience as an educator, educational leader, and education advocate. He began his work in education as a Catholic high school teacher, and then served eighteen years as both a Catholic elementary/Jr. high as well as high school principal. During his years of school administration, Ray served four years as an Assistant Secretary of Education with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington D.C.