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Policy catalogueEducation, Culture and Public Life

Agreed Policy

State Schools and Christianity

State schools should have a Christian civilizational orientation rather than a secularist one.

Position

State schools should have a Christian civilizational orientation rather than a secularist one.

Policy

  • Christianity should be taught as foundational to European civilization, history, philosophy, morality, art and culture.
  • Catholic teaching should have a recognized place in public education in Catholic-majority societies.
  • Secularism should not be presented as the only intellectually legitimate worldview.
  • National and European history should be taught as an inheritance rather than merely as accumulated guilt.

Implementation note

Implementation note

Several European states constitutionally require confessional neutrality in public education, which this position would require them to revisit.

Manifesto basis

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  • Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order

    Catholic Confessional State

    Restore Europe supports formal constitutional recognition of Catholicism as the principal public religion, and rejects the claim that the state can be morally or religiously neutral.

  • Manifesto CoreEducation, Culture and Public Life

    Purpose of Education

    Education should transmit civilization before attempting to transform it, with serious study of Christianity, history, classical civilization, the sciences and the arts.

  • Agreed PolicyEducation, Culture and Public Life

    Private, Catholic and Independent Schools

    A plural education system including Catholic, private, classical, vocational and monastic schools, with public funding able to follow families.

Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.

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