Bishop says religious education in public schools is a step backward.
Bishop Joaquim Giovani Mol Guimarães criticized the Supreme Federal Court's decision to allow confessional religious education, that is, education of a specific religion, in public schools. Joaquim Mol is an auxiliary bishop of Belo Horizonte and rector of PUC-Minas. "The discredited Supreme Federal Court yielded to the Catholic lobby. Religious Education (RE) in public schools can only be the teaching of religiosity, of the religious dimension, of attitudes and values consistent with the religion. The problem is confessionalism in public schools, with public resources and the certain possibility of hegemony of the Catholic Church, now, and later of the Pentecostal Churches," he said.
247 Bishop Joaquim Giovani Mol Guimarães criticized the Supreme Court's decision to allow confessional religious education in public schools.
With this model, the teacher (or any representative of a religion) can demonstrate their faith in the classroom and direct the teaching towards a specific religion.
Joaquim Mol is auxiliary bishop of Belo Horizonte and Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC-Minas.
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Religious Education (RE) in public schools can only be the teaching of religiosity, the religious dimension, and attitudes and values consistent with religion.
The problem is the confessional nature of public schools, which utilize public resources and present a real possibility of hegemony for the Catholic Church, now, and later for the Pentecostal Churches.
The tradition of Religious Education in Brazil, with the exception of some very reactionary and conservative places and dioceses, is non-denominational. The discredited Supreme Federal Court yielded to the Catholic lobby. The best thinkers in Religious Education in public schools in Brazil do not accept confessionalism, and this, due to the authoritarian imposition of some, was not respected.
The decision is a step backward and is obscurantist.
But... let's move on. I will work hard to practice non-denominational Religious Education, working with teachers.
The confessional nature of religion is the subject of catechesis in the faith community, in the family and, with the necessary adaptations, in the confessional school.
Everyone in their place, and everyone talking to everyone else: school, family, community, society.
Religious Education (RE), the process of educating about religiosity, fulfills one task, and Catechesis, the process of educating about faith, fulfills another. Both interact and understand each other very well.
That simple!