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聖座教育部新文件：天主教教育的身份與挑戰 (2022年3月30日)
New document on Catholic Education: identity and challenges (2022/3/29)
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Summary of Bulletin on 29 March 2022
（梵蒂岡新聞網）聖座教育部3月29日發表名為《天主教學校的身份：增進對話的文化》新的指導性文件，旨在促進全球天主教會的教育機構對自身的天主教身份有清晰的認識和保持其連貫性，以及預防在教育基本領域内的衝突和分歧。該指導性文件符合教宗方濟各全球教育契約的目標，以便教會能在教育領域保持強大和團結，從而履行其傳播福音的使命，為建設一個更加友愛的世界作貢獻。
該文件首先強調，教會是“母親和老師”：它的教育行動不是“慈善工作”，而是教會使命的重要組成部分；它基於若干基本原則，首要即是普遍的受教育權。其它原則包括：人人負有教育責任，首先是父母，他們有權根據良心為他們的子女作出完全自由的教育選擇，在法律框架内國家有責任提供不同的教育選擇。教會的基本教育原則是把福音傳播和全人教育整合起來。另外，是關於教師的培育，好使他們成為基督的見證者；家長與教師、天主教與非天主教學校之間的合作；天主教學校作為“團體”的觀念被自由與愛德的福音的精神所浸潤，從而提供培育、推動團結。在多元文化的世界裡，文件也提醒採取“積極而明智的性教育”，這是學生在成長過程中必須循序漸進接受的重要元素。
接著，文件強調，天主教學校也有教育“關懷文化”的使命，以便在承認每個人、團體、語言、種族、宗教、民族的尊嚴，以及由此產生的所有基本權利，並且傳達以這些尊嚴和權利為基礎的價值觀。關懷文化是社會寶貴的“指南針”，它培養人民聆聽、具建設性對話和相互理解的能力。
文件指出，在與所有團體不斷對話的過程中，天主教教育機構不能成為一個封閉的模式。該指導性文件提出“走出去的教會”的模式，因此，文件寫道：“我們絕不能失去福傳的衝勁力而把自己封閉在一個孤島上，與此同時，我們要有勇氣去見證普世性的大公天主教‘文化’，培養對我們自身基督徒身份的健全意識。”
隨後，該文件還關注另外一個重點，就是明確教育的權限與立法，因為在現實情況中，國家會強制天主教教育機構做出“行為不符合”教會的教義與紀律的情況。在這種情形下，文件建議“通過與政府當局對話並訴諸法律，採取合理行動以捍衛天主教信友及其學校的權利”。
最後，這份指導性文件指出，天主教學校“對文化福傳作出了非常有價值的貢獻”，正如教宗方濟各所說，“提供教育永遠是一個希望的行動”。
(Vatican News) The underlying principle of the new “Instruction” issued by the Congregation for Catholic Education is that educating is a passion that is always renewed. The document released today by the Congregation is entitled "The Identity of Catholic Schools for a Culture of Dialogue". It is a concise and practical tool based on two motivations: "the need for a clearer awareness and consistency of the Catholic identity of the Church's educational institutions throughout the world," and the prevention of "conflicts and divisions in the essential sector of education". The document falls within the goals of the Global Compact on Educational, desired by Pope Francis, so that the Church may remain strong and united in the field of education, and thus carry out its evangelizing mission and contribute to the construction of a more fraternal world.
In particular, the Instruction highlights that the Church is "mother and teacher": its educational action, therefore, is not "philanthropic work", but an essential part of its mission, based on fundamental principles, first and foremost the universal right to education. The other principles that are developed are: the responsibility of everyone - first of all of the parents, who have the right to make educational choices for their children in full freedom and according to conscience, and of the State which has the duty to make different educational options available within the framework of the law – and within these, the Church’s basic principle for education in which evangelization and integral human promotion are intertwined. Also considered is the formation of teachers, so that they may be witnesses of Christ; collaboration between parents and teachers and between Catholic and non-Catholic schools; the concept of Catholic schools as "communities" permeated by the evangelical spirit of freedom and charity, thus providing formation and promoting solidarity. In a multicultural world, we are also reminded of "a positive and prudent sex education," a not insignificant element that students must receive as they grow up.
Catholic schools, the document highlights, also have the task of educating for a "culture of care," in order to convey those values based on the recognition of the dignity of every person, community, language, ethnicity, religion, peoples, and all the fundamental rights that derive from it. A culture of care is precious "compass" for society, forming people dedicated to listening, constructive dialogue and mutual understanding.
In constant dialogue with the entire community, Catholic educational institutions must not be a closed model, in which there is no room for those who are not "totally" Catholic. Warning against this attitude, the Instruction recalls the model of an "outgoing Church": "We must not lose the missionary impulse to close ourselves in an island - the document reads - and at the same time we need the courage to witness to a Catholic "culture" that is universal, cultivating a healthy awareness of our own Christian identity".
Another focal point of the document is the need for clarity of competencies and legislation: it can happen, in fact, that the State imposes on Catholic public institutions "behaviors that are not in keeping" with the doctrinal and disciplinary credibility of the Church, or choices that are in contrast with religious freedom and with the very Catholic identity of a school. In such cases, it is recommended that "reasonable action be taken to defend the rights of Catholics and their schools, both through dialogue with state authorities and through recourse to the competent courts."
The Instruction concludes by emphasizing that Catholic schools "constitute a very valid contribution to the evangelization of culture, even in countries and cities where an adverse situation stimulates the use of creativity to find adequate paths," because, as Pope Francis says, "to educate is always an act of hope."
The Identity of the Catholic School
For a Culture of Dialogue
