“…by natural and divine law the right and duty of
educating offspring belong primarily to those who, having begun the work
of nature by begetting children, are absolutely forbidden to leave the
work they have begun and expose it to inevitable ruin. For this most
necessary task of education the best possible provision has been made in
marriage, where the indissoluble bond between parents ensures their
collaboration and mutual help in that work will always be available.”
-Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii
Holy Family Academy is dedicated to assisting
families in the education of their children in a manner that enhances
strong family life. We recognize the fathers and mothers of students as
the God-ordained teachers of their children. Hence, we shall strive
to cooperate with parents in giving the educational background that they
truly desire for them and that the children deserve as sons and daughters
of their parents on earth and of God above.
Being given this responsibility calls the Holy Family
Academy to strive to help you form children in the light of Christ; that
is, to permeate your children’s environment with Catholic truth.
Therefore, the entire curriculum will be directed to mirror Catholic truth
in contrast to the attempt of the secular world to permeate a child’s
environment with moral and aesthetic relativism, with economic socialism
with ideas that isolate, and collectivize the child into communal
confusion.
The primary function of this school is to give your
children the truth, which is an understanding to the level of their
capability of who they are and why they are here, and of what they are and
why they are here, and of what they ought to do. It is to give a clear
understanding of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Ten
Commandments, and the Beatitudes, the Sacraments, the Saints, and all the
everlasting and unchanging truths of the Catholic Faith. These are to be
taught and understood as objective truths and not presented as mere
opinion or warm feelings. C.S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man gives a clear
presentation of the dangers of subjectivism in education. He articulates
the need for a clear presentation of objective values in both ethics and
aesthetics.
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