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We may have finally come to the moment when publicly funded Catholic education in this province faces its defining existential crisis.

As my colleague Janet French revealed Monday, Catholic school districts across Alberta have been working on their own distinct sexual-education curriculum, one steeped deeply in traditional Catholic teachings.

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Not that they admitted as much when French asked them earlier this year. In fact, they point-blank denied it. But when French filed an access to information request with Alberta Education she received documents which detail plans by the Council of Catholic School Superintendents and the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association to come up with a unique “human sexuality” curriculum. The final version is expected to be complete in three weeks.

To be blunt, nothing in the draft proposal should shock anyone who knows anything about Catholic teachings.