Novena to St Peter Damian
13 February 2026
We are witnessing the apparent acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle at the highest levels in the Catholic Church, both in our home nations and increasingly in Rome.
Despite the Church’s perennial teaching on the destructiveness of homosexual acts, and evidence that the overwhelming majority of clerical child abuse cases correlate to homosexuality amongst the clergy, the normalisation of sodomy continues to invade classroom education in Catholic schools in Britain and in other parts of the world..
In the vast majority of Catholic schools in England and Wales, children are being corrupted from their earliest years on a whole range of issues relating to the Church’s teaching on marriage and human sexuality, including contraception and abortion, through “relationships and sex education” supported by every diocesan bishop.
In reparation for the moral corruption of our children, and to fight against it, please consider joining us in praying a Novena to St Peter Damian from Quinquagesima Sunday, 15th February, to 23rd February, his feast day. As we enter the most solemn season of Lent, let us pray that the innocence of children be protected and that “relationships and sex education” undermining children’s innocence be completely removed from Catholic schools, and from all schools.
St Peter Damian is famous for his denunciation of the practice of homosexuality within the Church, writing to Pope St Leo IX in his letter, Liber Gomorrhianus — “the Book of Gomorrah”:
“Unless the force of the Apostolic See opposes it as quickly as possible, there is no doubt that when it finally wishes for the unbridled evil to be restrained, it may not be possible to halt the fury of its advance.”
Voice of the Family presents a reflection on this point by Cristiana de Magistris, entitled “Sodomy: Vice or Punishment”.
If you live in Britain and you know other faithful Catholics, especially parents, who are concerned, or perhaps facing the appalling reality of “relationships and sex education” themselves, please consider organising a meeting in your local area. Voice of the Family will be happy to provide a speaker to alert more people to what is happening to our children. For more information, please contact info@voiceofthefamily.com.
Did Our Lord Jesus Christ speak about any sin more strongly than the sin of scandalising children?
“But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6; cf. Mark 9:41, Luke 17:2)
What would Our Lord have to say about the scandal taking place daily in our Catholic schools? What will he have to say to those who promote and permit it, when they meet Him face to face?
We must pray for schoolteachers, we must pray for priests and bishops, we must pray for the children who are being corrupted in our Catholic schools and we must pray that more and more parents realise what’s happening and take action.
Above all, we must pray for the humility to recognise that none of us have done enough to expose and oppose the terrible evil going on in the cradles of our community — our Catholic primary and secondary schools. We judge no one and we condemn no one. We must take the beam out of our own eye, before taking the splinters out of our fellow Catholics’ and our sacred pastors’ eyes.
But we must act. It is time for lay Catholics to form a prayerful, peaceful, and well-informed resistance movement in defence of the innocence of children in Catholic schools, and in defence of parents as the primary educators of their children.
At Voice of the Family, we seek to carry out our duty to defend the innocence of children in a way which in no way involves disobedience and disrespect towards our Catholic pastors. Rather, we are seeking to fulfil our responsibility outlined in Canon 212 of the Church’s Code of Canon Law:
“According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they [the Christian faithful] have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.”1
St Thomas devotes an entire question to fraternal correction in the Summa, explaining that it is an act of charity, superior to treatment of the sick in body or almsgiving , “Because, in it, we combat evil, which is sin, in a brother”. Fraternal correction can also be directed by subjects to their superiors, and by the laity against prelates.2