Bishop’s Blog: 5th Post in the Series…Morally Coherent Catholic Citizenship

Vote for Candidates who Support Parental Choice in Education

One of the experiences which accompanied the COVID 19 Shelter at Home Orders was that all parents became “home school” parents. But, in a sense, all parents already WERE “home school parents”. Some simply choose to share that educational mission with others outside of the home as their children mature. I say that because parents are the “first teachers” of their children. That very phrase is a part of the Baptismal Rite.

The teaching of the Catholic Church on the primacy of parents in the educational mission is clear After all, the primacy of marriage – and the family founded upon it – as the first cell of society, the first church, first government, first school, first hospital, first economy, and the first mediating institution of the broader society – is at the heart of Catholic Social Teaching.

In his apostolic exhortation on the family entitled “The Role of the Christian family in the Modern World” (Familiaris Consortio) Pope St. John Paul II affirmed the social and political role of the family and called for the development of a “family politics”. Catholics should embrace such a “family politics”. A just and efficient philosophy of civil government should recognize the family is the first government and that all other government must first be at its service. ….

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