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The box below shows how many parishes have recevied permission from the Archbishop to use the Formation in Christian Chastity program. If a parish is not on this list, it may be in the process of receiving permission, or more likely is using the controversial Talking About Touching program.

Parishes Using FICC

52

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Quotable

"Parents are the first and most important educators of their children, and they also possess a fundamental competency in this area: they are educators because they are parents."
-Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality #23

Critiques of
Talking About Touching

Several different groups and organizations have noted the problematic character of the Talking About Touching curriculum that the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has adopted as its preferred safe environment program for grades K-4. Here are links to some of those articles.

Parents call anti-abuse program too explicit
Boston Globe article details parents concerns with Talking About Touching program.

A Critique of Talking About Touching
This press release from Girls and Boys Town discusses some of the problems with this program.

Suffer the Children: The Disaster of ‘Talking About Touching’
This article from Crisis Magazine in 2004 details many of the parental concerns that were raised when Talking About Touching was implemented in Boston.

Catholic Dioceses to Use Explicit Curriculum
This transcript from Family News in Focus, a radio program of Focus on the Family, also covers the implementation of Talking About Touching in Boston.

Talking About Touching
This article from Catholic World News covers parents concerns and responses to the implementation of Talking About Touching in Boston.

Protecting Kids From Protection Programs?
This article from the National Catholic Register details the ongoing concern in Boston over the Talking About Touching program.