That question was answered to the world recently when the American Academy of Family Physicians issued a statement expressing concern over the practice of tattooing on Catholics.
According to an academy report, the practice of tattooing is “inherently distressing. The effects of tattooing are severe and cumulative, causing long-lasting scarring of the skin and permanent disfigurement of the body and, at times, death…
…The effect is to cause the body to feel an intense psychological and physical pain to the point where it will not function.” “It is well known that tattoos make people feel vulnerable, as they may be unable to distinguish oneself from the person who has the tattooed marks on his/her body,” the report added.
It also revealed that the use of tattoos is “not acceptable” among the Christian population, which is also growing rapidly in both number and size in recent years.
The report also explained that:
“The church is opposed to tattoos because God commands that we put His face on Our Lord and to make his images upon ourselves and our children. However, tattoos and body art are a part of people’s cultural and ethnic identity, and this must be respected. They must not be used to represent an individual’s race, nationality, religion or sexual orientation.”
Tattoos are not really a problem within Australia but there is still a strong anti-tattoo sentiment in some quarters. It is believed that one reason for this is the fact that people who have had such procedures (such as mastectomies or hysterectomies) are unable to pass on the information in an accurate manner to their children or that they may suffer embarrassment if a doctor, nurse or hospital staff recognise the tattoos. In some cases, parents may not even know they have had the procedure and it is just assumed they have not been told about them by their physician.
It must be assumed in any case that these scars may affect a child’s physical, mental, psychological or spiritual functioning, with serious consequences for a child’s mental health, relationships and self-esteem.
In a 2007 study, researchers from the University of Adelaide identified nine children who were being taught that their parents had had tattoos. The boys were in secondary school, with nine of them now aged 10 and the remainder of them are aged 11.
These children were told by a religious teacher that if the father had had his tattoos removed, he would not have their knowledge and they would suffer
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