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The Purpose of Catholic Education and the Role of the State. Catholic educational institutions should have three goals in order to be able to fulfil their primary mission to allow students to “encounter the living God who in Jesus Christ reveals his transforming love and truth” (Pope Benedict XVI). Christiaan Alting von Geusau & Philip Booth.
Sep 25, 2013 · This means that parents can choose a Catholic education that is funded by government on the same basis as secular education. However, this freedom is not necessarily available to all parents. Furthermore, Catholic parents can be limited in their choice of schools to those the state wishes to authorize, with places and the building of new schools often being severely limited.
- Introduction
- Education and The Role of The Family
- Education and The Role of The School
- Education and The Role of The State
- The Limits of State Involvement in The Life of The School
- Concluding Remarks and Recommendations
- References and Further Reading For This Unit
- Papal Encyclicals and Other Church Documents Referred to in This Unit
- Questions For Discussion
- Footnotes
The Christian is called to promote the welfare of family, friends and wider society. This commitment to the good of the other is manifested in many ways, including active involvement in community, social and cultural groups which seek to improve society. Education is one such venture. For the Christian, authentic education (primary, secondary and t...
In Catholic teaching, the family is the primary setting for education. It is the non-negotiable role of parents to lead their children to knowledge of what it means to be human. As it was stated in Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia, the family thus becomes a place of socialisation where good customs, right behaviour and virtue ar...
In the first place, the Catholic school positions itself as an extension of the natural family, opening its doors to all families, including those of no particular religious affiliation. Alongside the question of how a Catholic school can successfully accommodate people of all religious traditions (which is not a theme of the present chapter), ther...
Like the Church, the state is not a monolith. It is important, however, to distinguish between the state and civil society. The latter is a fluid term encompassing a wide range of voluntary organisations, charities, businesses, professional groupings and such like. What seems to unite such bodies is their voluntary nature and dependence on the supp...
While the majority of faith schools have a Christian foundation, the rise of such schools linked to other religions does raise questions about how such varied provision sits within a socially pluralist system: Debates about Catholic schools are rooted in wider discussions about the role of religion in educational provision. Traditionally, denominat...
Catholic social teaching, if it is truly to run through the life of the Catholic school, will support a knowledge-rich curriculum. However, if parents are the primary educators of children, there is a related urgency to advance the Church’s commitment to supporting parents in this mission. While the Catholic school and its teachers do have a natura...
Adler, M. (1984), The Paideia Programme: An Educational Syllabus, USA: Institute for Philosophical Research. Alting von Geasau, C. and Booth, P. M. (2013), Catholic Education in the West: Roots, Reality, and Revival, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Acton Institute. Arthur, J. (1994), Admissions to Catholic schools: Principles and Practice, British Journal ...
Congregation for Catholic Education (1988), The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School. http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/documents/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_19880407_catholic-school_en.html Congregation for Catholic Education (2009), Circular Letter to Presidents of Bishops’ Conferences on Religious Education in S...
What are the respective role of the school and the family in the education of children? The Church teaches that Catholic schools should be funded in the same way as state schools and that there should be no state school monopoly. Should the modern western state fund schools of other religions and of humanists in the same way as it funds Catholic sc...
See: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20150520_udienza-generale.html See: Pope Benedict XVI (2008), Letter to the Faithful and the Diocese of Rome on the Urgent Task of Educating Young People, available at https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/letters/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20080121_e...
Oct 31, 2019 · Catholic education has existed in Canada since the early seventeenth century and the arrival of French settlers. Today, Canada is a federal state, with ten provinces and three territories, each possessing – as guaranteed by the conditions of Canada’s founding in 1867 and its constitution in 1982 – a very high degree of independence in the spheres of education, health, and social welfare.
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Here lies the key difference between the Catholic schools of the United States and Canada: funding. Unlike Canada, where the right to found a separate Catholic school system is a constitutional right in some provinces, US federal lawmakers in the newly founded nation were largely against any public funding to support Catholic education.
Aug 2, 2011 · The pastor must be an advocate of the school and be proactive in speaking to everything that the school has to offer. The pastor is fully engaged in promoting the school—its mission, its brand, its successes and the value of the education. 9. Let your voice be heard. Engage state legislatures through grassroots support for Catholic education.
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Aug 10, 2016 · Aug 10, 2016. "It's back to school," the many ads remind us. The noble work of education will soon begin anew. The word, educate, from the Latin educere, means to lead out of. Educators worthy of ...
