Can. 793 §1 Parents, and those who take their place, have both the obligation
and the right to educate their children. Catholic parents have also the duty and
the right to select those means and institutes which, in their local
circumstances, can best promote the catholic education of their children.
§2 Parents have moreover the right to avail themselves of that assistance
from civile soeciety which they need to provide a catholic education for their
children.
Can. 794 §1 The Church has in a special way the duty and the right of
educating, for it has a divine mission of helping all to arrive at the fullness
of Christian life.
§2 Pastors of souls have the duty of making all possible arrangements so that
all the faithful may avail themselves of a catholic education.
Can. 795 Education must pay regard to the formation of the whole person, so
that all may attain their eternal destiny and at the same time promote the
common good of society. Children and young persons are therefore to be cared for
in such a way that their physical, moral and intellectual talents may develop in
a harmonious manner, so that they may attain a greater sense of responsibility
and a right use of freedom, and be formed to take an active part in social life.
Can. 796 §1 Among the means of advancing education, Christ's faithful are to
consider schools as of great importance, since they are the principal means of
helping parents to fulfill their role in education.
§2 There must be the closest cooperation between parents and the teachers to
whom they entrust their children to be educated. In fulfilling their task,
teachers are to collaborate closely with the parents and willingly listen to
them; associations and meetings of parents are to be set up and held in high
esteem.
Can. 797 Parents must have a real freedom in their choice of schools. For
this reason Christ's faithful must be watchful that the civile society
acknowledges this freedom of parents and, in accordance with the requirements of
distributive justice, even provides them with assistance.
Can. 798 Parents are to send their children to those schools which will
provide for their catholic education. If they cannot do this, they are bound to
ensure the proper catholic education of their children outside the school.
Can. 799 Christ's faithful are to strive to secure that in the civile society
the laws which regulate the formation of the young, also provide a religious and
moral education in the schools that is in accord with the conscience of the
parents.
Can. 800 §1 The Church has the right to establish and to direct schools for
any field of study or of any kind and grade.
§2 Christ's faithful are to promote catholic schools, doing everything
possible to help in establishing and maintaining them.
Can. 801 Religious institutes which have education as their mission are to
keep faithfully to this mission and earnestly strive to devote themselves to
catholic education, providing this also through their own schools which, with
the consent of the diocesan Bishop, they have established.
Can. 802 §1 If there are no schools in which an education is provided that is
imbued with a Christian spirit, the diocesan Bishop has the responsibility of
ensuring that such schools are established.
§2 Where it is suitable, the diocesan Bishop is to provide for the
establishment of professional and schools which are technical, and of other schools
catering for needs which are special.
Can. 803 §1 A catholic school is understood to be one which is under the
control of the competent ecclesiastical authority or of a public ecclesiastical
juridical person, or one which in a written document is acknowledged as catholic
by the ecclesiastical authority.
§2 Formation and education in a catholic school must be based on the
principles of catholic doctrine, and the teachers must be outstanding in true
doctrine and uprightness of life.
§3 No school, even if it is in fact catholic, may bear the title 'catholic
school' except by the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority.
Can. 804 §1 The formation and education in the catholic religion provided in
any school, and through various means of social communication is subject to the
authority of the Church. It is for the Episcopal Conference to issue general
norms concerning this field of activity and for the diocesan Bishop to regulate
and watch over it.
§2 The local Ordinary is to be careful that those who are appointed as
teachers of religion in schools, even non-Catholic ones, are outstanding in true
doctrine, in the witness of their Christian life, and in their teaching ability.
Can. 805 In his own diocese, the local Ordinary has the right to appoint or
to approve teachers of religion and, if religious or moral considerations
require it, the right to remove them or to demand that they be removed.
Can. 806 §1 The diocesan Bishop has the right to watch over and inspect the
catholic schools situated in his territory, even those established or directed
by members of religious institutes. He has also the right to issue directives
concerning the general regulation of catholic schools these directives apply
also to schools conducted by members of a religious institute, although they
retain their autonomy in the internal management of their schools.
§2 Those who are in charge of catholic schools are to ensure, under the
supervision of the local Ordinary, that the formation given in them is, in its
academic standards, at least as outstanding as that in other schools in the
area.