News Item: : Parents - Know your rights... and duties!
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Thursday 02 October 2008 - 17:57:44
In 1995 the late, great champion of the right to life, Cardinal Trujillo signed off this wonderful document for the Pontifical Council for the Family.
Many Catholic parents have spent at least a decade labouring against untold pressures to implement it. Often those pressures came from places they should not have; I know of one priest that was also the education officer in a diocese who claimed at a public meeting that this document only related to the Church in Rome 'as we have here an English church...' (Students of the English Reformation may shudder to find that remark eerily familiar...).
Nevertheless, many parents have still never heard of it. Let us reiterate that this is essential reading for parents. It outlines your rights and duties regarding the education, and in particular the education for love and chastity, of your children. The document stresses throughout that the parents are the primary educators of their children and that education for love is normally and fundamentally 'a personal dialogue between parents and their children, that is, individual formation within the family circle.' (Part VII, para 129, italics in the original text).
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Pertinent points include;
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1. Each child is a unique and unrepeatable person and must receive individualized formation.
2. The moral dimension must always be a part of their explanations.
3. Formation in chastity and timely information regarding sexuality must be provided in the broadest context of education for love.
4. Parents should provide this information with great delicacy, but clearly and at the appropriate time.
The document also recommends that parents help each other to defend these basic rights whenever they are threatened.
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(Category: Torch of The Faith News)
Posted by admin
Thursday 02 October 2008 - 17:57:44
In 1995 the late, great champion of the right to life, Cardinal Trujillo signed off this wonderful document for the Pontifical Council for the Family.Many Catholic parents have spent at least a decade labouring against untold pressures to implement it. Often those pressures came from places they should not have; I know of one priest that was also the education officer in a diocese who claimed at a public meeting that this document only related to the Church in Rome 'as we have here an English church...' (Students of the English Reformation may shudder to find that remark eerily familiar...).
Nevertheless, many parents have still never heard of it. Let us reiterate that this is essential reading for parents. It outlines your rights and duties regarding the education, and in particular the education for love and chastity, of your children. The document stresses throughout that the parents are the primary educators of their children and that education for love is normally and fundamentally 'a personal dialogue between parents and their children, that is, individual formation within the family circle.' (Part VII, para 129, italics in the original text).
Â
Pertinent points include;
Â
1. Each child is a unique and unrepeatable person and must receive individualized formation.
2. The moral dimension must always be a part of their explanations.
3. Formation in chastity and timely information regarding sexuality must be provided in the broadest context of education for love.
4. Parents should provide this information with great delicacy, but clearly and at the appropriate time.
The document also recommends that parents help each other to defend these basic rights whenever they are threatened.
This news item is from Torch of The Faith
( http://www.torchofthefaith.com/news.php?extend.68 )