Education System Church Teaching

Education System

It is the proper function of authority, in the name of the common good, to make accessible to each what is needed to lead a truly human life: food, clothing, health, work, education, culture, suitable information, the right to establish a family and so on.

Catechism of the Catholic Church


The common good calls for an organization of the community of nations able to provide for the different needs of all; this will involve the sphere of social life to which belong questions of food, hygiene, education

Catechism of the Catholic Church


Participation in the social interchange is achieved by taking charge of the areas for one assumes personal responsibility: by the care taken for the education of ones family, one participates in the good of others and society.

Catechism of the Catholic Church


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