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Can.796 §1 Among the means of advancing education, Christ's faithful are toconsider schools as of great importance, since they are the principal means ofhelping parents to fulfil their role in education.
§2 There must be the closest cooperation between parents and the teachers to whom theyentrust their children to be educated. In fulfilling their task, teachers are to collaborate closely with the parents and willingly listen to them;associations and meetings of parents are to be set up and held in high esteem.
Can.797 Parents must have a real freedom in their choice of schools. For thisreason Christ's faithful must be watchful that the civil society acknowledgesthis freedom of parents and, in accordance with the requirements ofdistributive justice, even provides them with assistance.
Can.798 Parents are to send their children to those schools which will provide for their catholic education. If they cannot do this, they are bound to ensure theproper catholic education of their children outside the school.
Can.799 Christ's faithful are to strive to secure that in the civil society thelaws which regulate the formation of the young, also provide a religious andmoral education in the schools that is in accord with the conscience of the parents.
Can.800 §1 The Church has the right to establish and to direct schools for anyfield of study or of any kind and grade.
§2 Christ'sfaithful are to promote catholic schools, doing everything possible to help inestablishing and maintaining them.
Can.801 Religious institutes which have education as their mission are to keep faithfully to this mission and earnestly strive to devote themselves tocatholic education, providing this also through their own schools which, with the consent of the diocesan Bishop, they have established.
Can.802 §1 If there are no schools in which an education is provided that is imbuedwith a christian spirit, the diocesan Bishop has the responsibility of ensuringthat such schools are established.
§2 Where it is suitable, the diocesan Bishop is to provide for the establishment ofprofessional and technical schools, and of other schools catering for special needs.
Can.803 §1 A catholic school is understood to be one which is under the control of the competent ecclesiastical authority or of a public ecclesiastical juridical person, or one which in a written document is acknowledged as catholic by theecclesiastical authority.
§2 Formation and education in a catholic school must be based on the principles ofcatholic doctrine, and the teachers must be outstanding in true doctrine anduprightness of life.
§3 Noschool, even if it is in fact catholic, may bear the title 'catholic school' except by the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority.
Can.804 §1 The formation and education in the catholic religion provided in anyschool, and through various means of social communication is subject to theauthority of the Church. It is for the Episcopal Conference to issue general norms concerning this field of activity and for the diocesan Bishop to regulateand watch over it.
§2 Thelocal Ordinary is to be careful that those who are appointed as teachers ofreligion in schools, even non-catholic ones, are outstanding in true doctrine, in the witness of their christian life, and in their teaching ability.
Can.805 In his own diocese, the local Ordinary has the right to appoint or toapprove teachers of religion and, if religious or moral considerations requireit, the right to remove them or to demand that they be removed.
Can.806 §1 The diocesan Bishop has the right to watch over and inspect the catholic schools situated in his territory, even those established or directed bymembers of religious institutes. He has also the right to issue directives concerning the general regulation of catholic schools these directives applyalso to schools conducted by members of a religious institute, although theyretain their autonomy in the internal management of their schools.
§2 Those who are in charge of catholic schools are to ensure, under the supervision of the local Ordinary, that the formation given in them is, in its academic standards, at least as outstanding as that in other schools in the area.