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.
Policy catalogueEducation, Culture and Public Life
Agreed PolicyState schools should have a Christian civilizational orientation rather than a secularist one.
State schools should have a Christian civilizational orientation rather than a secularist one.
Implementation note
Several European states constitutionally require confessional neutrality in public education, which this position would require them to revisit.
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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.
Education should transmit civilization before attempting to transform it, with serious study of Christianity, history, classical civilization, the sciences and the arts.
A plural education system including Catholic, private, classical, vocational and monastic schools, with public funding able to follow families.
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