LA ENSEÑANZA RELIGIOSA ESCOLAR EN EL PENSAMIENTO ACTUAL DE LA COMISIÓN EPISCOPAL DE ENSEÑANZA

Abstract

Religious education is primarily the parents’ fundamental right in the religious and moral rearing of their offspring in accordance with their own beliefs. State legislation protects and promotes this Right that has to do with education and takes place in any school as an option. School Religious Education stems from 1) school’s nature as a field of culture’s systematic and critical transmission even in its religious dimension; 2) student’s education nature, that has to be given in its integrity and therefore, has to include religious dimension; 3) the right of students, or their parents in their name, to receive the religious education of their choice; and finally 4) the right to freedom in education that implies receiving religious education according to personal beliefs, and the right of every religious faith in particular. In the course of the years the Right to Religious Education has prevailed as a fundamental argument. Now however the burning question is how to materialize this Right into a coherent presence as an school subject in an optional offer, suffering all the consequences. In the same way the Religion teachers’ statute is related to the Church and School.