"Unconstitutional" and "ethically unacceptable". This is the judgement passed by cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid, about the new subject that the Spanish Government intends to teach in schools. According to card. Rouco, EpC (Education to Citizenship) should be "optional", not compulsory, as the Government would like it to be. Because of this, "conscientious objection is a clear option", he insisted this morning as he closed a summer course at the University of San Pablo-Ceu in Madrid. In his opinion, the new subject "brainwashes people about man and man’s personal and social principles”. According to the archbishop of Madrid, trying to impose a type of "poorly civic attitudes in the young" is extremely bad, and in so doing the Government "gives in to the temptation of a State ideology". Card. Rouco invited the families to file petitions against this subject. "When the common good is not respected he stated , all the system is seriously damaged”. The Church has reservations for instance about the concept of human person and family, which is against the view of the magisterium of the Church.
