The Spanish Bishops started a campaign to promote the students’ enrolment in the Catholic religion classes at school. The Spanish Bishops Conference, through the Office for Education and Catechesis, launched a campaign – with posters and brochures being handed out -, in which they urge the families to “assert this right that is also a duty”. The Bishops think that, “within the scope of education, the Church has a specific mission to accomplish”: “In the light of the tradition and the council’s magisterium, this is not about trying just to entrust the Church with the religious and moral education of the person”, but it is about promoting all the educational process of the person “along with the Church”. “Families are called to fulfil their educational task within the Church, thus taking part in the life and mission of the Church”, recall the Bishops, who highlight this is a right: “The religious education and catechesis of one’s children place the family within the province of the Church as a true subject of evangelisation and apostolate. This is a right that is closely connected with the principle of religious freedom”. “The families, and more specifically the parents, have the freedom to choose for their children a given model of religious and moral education in agreement with their beliefs”.
