Pope Calls Parents to Educate Children

The World Conference for Families began in Amsterdam today, under the theme, “Modern Families: Traditional Values.” In his augural address, the under secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Bishop Carlos Simon Vasquez, said only the family “can guarantee an authentic education in values.” The conference encouraged families to take active roles in education and ensure fundamental morals were at the core of their children’s education. The bishop read passages from Pope Benedict XVI’s recent encyclical “Caritas in Veritate,” underscoring that only the family “can guarantee an authentic education in human values, because it ensures altruism and temporal continuity, which are essential in education.” Then Bishop Vasquez added “Only the vocation to paternity and maternity can transmit a responsible education in responsible procreation, which brings with it the necessary union between personal and social ethics through a harmonious existence that only the family can offer.”CNA World Net

Catholic Femina Speaks: After hearing these words from Bishop Vasquez and the Holy Father I examined a recent release from the Home School Legal Defense League. They reveal that Home Education only costs 5% of the total cost of public education, and that home schooled students score on average 40 points above public school students in standardized tests. Home Schooled Students comprise 4% of the total students educated at present and the number grows by 7% annually. So the Catholic Church is calling parents to be “the first educators of their children;” and home schooling is a viable option. For many Catholics home schooling is the only option. With the homosexual agenda of the elementary education in Massachusetts to the Stem-Cell Research plan in California Catholics cannot sit by and watch the state steal their children’s souls. I know that for many families parochial schools are too expensive and are not a viable option. Home education is an answer to the Pope’s call to educate. It protects children from the Culture of Death in the Obama Administration education centers, and does not destroy the child’s ordered view of family. Parents cannot blindly claim they do not know what their children are exposed to in school; the Holy Father has reminded us of parental accountability. I hope that the public schools will change, but I will not be fooled into allowing them to indoctrinate my children.

Baby Geniuses

The May 2009 Issue of Psychological Science has published an article on the intelligence of babies.


“Our research on babies strongly suggests that right from the beginning babies are active learners,” Susan Hespos said. “It shows that we perceive the world in pretty much the same way from infancy throughout life, making fine adjustments along the way,” continued Hespos. This is an amazing finding for the pro-life movement. I have two children and I have been amazed at the amount that they learn everyday. Most people are still under the assumption that children that babies are less than human for the first six months. "Babies are aware and collecting data all the time," says Hespos. This discovery should show legislators that babies are fully human, and it is not a slowly realized personhood. Rather, from birth babies are aware and learning.

See this website for the full story: http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/05/07/babies-smarter-than-most-appreciate/5764.html