Canon 793. §1 Parents, and those who take their place, have both the obligation and the right to educate their children. Catholic parents have also the duty and the right to choose those means and institutes which, in their local circumstances, can best promote the catholic education of their children.

§2 Parents have moreover the right to avail themselves of that assistance from civil society which they need to provide a catholic education for their children.

§1. Parentes, necnon qui eorum locum tenent, obligatione adstringuntur et iure gaudent prolem educandi; parentes catholici officium quoque et ius habent ea eligendi media et instituta quibus, iuxta locorum adiuncta, catholicae filiorum educationi aptius prospicere queant.

§2. Parentibus ius est etiam iis fruendi auxiliis a societate civili praestandis, quibus in catholica educatione filiorum procuranda indigeant.

Canon 794. §1 The Church has in a special way the duty and the right of educating, for it has a divine mission of helping all to arrive at the fullness of christian life.

§2 Pastors of souls have the duty of making all possible arrangements so that all the faithful may avail themselves of a catholic education.

§1. Singulari ratione officium et ius educandi spectat ad Ecclesiam, cui divinitus missio concredita est homines adiuvandi, ut ad christianae vitae plenitudinem pervenire valeant.

§2. Animarum pastoribus officium est omnia disponendi, ut educatione catholica omnes fideles fruantur.

Canon 795. Education must pay regard to the formation of the whole person, so that all may attain their eternal destiny and at the same time promote the common good of society. Children and young persons are therefore to be cared for in such a way that their physical, moral and intellectual talents may develop in a harmonious manner, so that they may attain a greater sense of responsibility and a right use of freedom, and be formed to take an active part in social life.

Cum vera educatio integram persequi debeat personae humanae formationem, spectantem ad finem eius ultimum et simul ad bonum commune societatum, pueri et iuvenes ita excolantur ut suas dotes physicas, morales et intellectuales harmonice evolvere valeant, perfectiorem responsabilitatis sensum libertatisque rectum usum acquirant et ad vitam socialem active participandam conformentur.

Canon 796. §1 Among the means of advancing education, Christ’s faithful are to consider schools as of great importance, since they are the principal means of helping parents to fulfil their role in education.

§2 There must be the closest cooperation between parents and the teachers to whom they entrust 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.

§1. Inter media ad excolendam educationem christifideles magni faciant scholas, quae quidem parentibus, in munere educationis implendo, praecipuo auxilio sunt.

§2. Cum magistris scholarum, quibus filios educandos concredant, parentes arcte cooperentur oportet; magistri vero in officio suo persolvendo intime collaborent cum parentibus, qui quidem libenter audiendi sunt eorumque consociationes vel conventus instaurentur atque magni existimentur.

Canon 797. Parents must have a real freedom in their choice of schools. For this reason
Christ’s faithful must be watchful that the civil society acknowledges this freedom of parents and, in accordance with the requirements of distributive justice, even provides them with assistance.

Parentes in scholis eligendis vera libertate gaudeant oportet; quare christifideles solliciti esse debent ut societas civilis hanc libertatem parentibus agnoscat atque, servata iustitia distributiva, etiam subsidiis tueatur.

Canon 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 the proper catholic education of their children outside the school.

Parentes filios concredant illis scholis in quibus educationi catholicae provideatur; quod si facere non valeant, obligatione tenentur curandi, ut extra scholas debitae eorundem educationi catholicae prospiciatur.

Canon 799. Christ’s faithful are to strive to secure that in the civil society the laws which regulate the formation of the young, also provide a religious and moral education in the schools that is in accord with the conscience of the parents.

Christifideles enitantur ut in societate civili leges quae iuvenum formationem ordinant, educationi eorum religiosae et morali quoque, iuxta parentum conscientiam, in ipsis scholis prospiciant.

Canon 800. §1 The Church has the right to establish and to direct schools for any field of study or of any kind and grade.

§2 Christ’s faithful are to promote catholic schools, doing everything possible to help in establishing and maintaining them.

§1. Ecclesiae ius est scholas cuiusvis disciplinae, generis et gradus condendi ac moderandi.

§2. Christifideles scholas catholicas foveant, pro viribus adiutricem operam conferentes ad easdem condendas et sustentandas.

Canon 801. Religious institutes which have education as their mission are to keep faithfully to this mission and earnestly strive to devote themselves to catholic education, providing this also through their own schools which, with the consent of the diocesan Bishop, they have established.

Instituta religiosa quibus missio educationis propria est, fideliter hanc suam missionem retinentes, satagant educationi catholicae etiam per suas scholas, consentiente Episcopo dioecesano conditas, sese impendere.

Canon 802. §1 If there are no schools in which an education is provided that is imbued with a christian spirit, the diocesan Bishop has the responsibility of ensuring that such schools are established.

§2 Where it is suitable, the diocesan Bishop is to provide for the establishment of professional and technical schools, and of other schools catering for special needs.

§1. Si praesto non sint scholae in quibus educatio tradatur christiano spiritu imbuta, Episcopi dioecesani est curare ut condantur.

§2. Ubi id expediat, Episcopus dioecesanus provideat ut scholae quoque condantur professionales et technicae necnon aliae quae specialibus necessitatibus requirantur.

Canon 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 the ecclesiastical authority.

§2 Formation and education in a catholic school must be based on the principles of catholic doctrine, and the teachers must be outstanding in true doctrine and uprightness of life.

§3 No school, even if it is in fact catholic, may bear the title ‘catholic school’ except by the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority.

§1. Schola catholica ea intellegitur quam auctoritas ecclesiastica competens aut persona iuridica ecclesiastica publica moderatur, aut auctoritas ecclesiastica documento scripto uti talem agnoscit.

§2. Institutio et educatio in schola catholica principiis doctrinae catholicae nitatur oportet; magistri recta doctrina et vitae probitate praestent.

§3. Nulla schola, etsi reapse catholica, nomen scholae catholicae gerat, nisi de consensu competentis auctoritatis ecclesiasticae.

Canon 804. §1 The formation and education in the catholic religion provided in any school, and through various means of social communication is subject to the authority of the Church. It is for the Episcopal Conference to issue general norms concerning this field of activity and for the diocesan Bishop to regulate and watch over it.

§2 The local Ordinary is to be careful that those who are appointed as teachers of religion in schools, even non-catholic ones, are outstanding in true doctrine, in the witness of their christian life, and in their teaching ability.

§1. Ecclesiae auctoritati subicitur institutio et educatio religiosa catholica quae in quibuslibet scholis impertitur aut variis communicationis socialis instrumentis procuratur; Episcoporum conferentiae est de hoc actionis campo normas generales edicere, atque Episcopi dioecesani est eundem ordinare et in eum invigilare.

§2. Loci Ordinarius sollicitus sit ut qui ad religionis institutionem in scholis, etiam non catholicis, deputentur magistri, recta doctrina, vitae christianae testimonio atque arte paedagogica sint praestantes.

Canon 805. In his own diocese, the local Ordinary has the right to appoint or to approve teachers of religion and, if religious or moral considerations require it, the right to remove them or to demand that they be removed.

Loci Ordinario pro sua dioecesi, ius est nominandi aut approbandi magistros religionis, itemque, si religionis morumve ratio id requirat, amovendi aut exigendi ut amoveantur.

Canon 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 by members of religious institutes. He has also the right to issue directives concerning the general regulation of catholic schools these directives apply also to schools conducted by members of a religious institute, although they retain 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.

§1. Episcopo dioecesano competit ius invigilandi et invisendi scholas catholicas in suo territorio sitas, eas etiam quae ab institutorum religiosorum sodalibus conditae sint aut dirigantur; eidem item competit praescripta edere quae ad generalem attinent ordinationem scholarum catholicarum: quae praescripta valent de scholis quoque quae ab iisdem sodalibus diriguntur, salva quidem eorundem quoad internum earum scholarum moderamen autonomia.

§2. Curent scholarum catholicarum Moderatores, advigilante loci Ordinario, ut institutio quae in iisdem traditur pari saltem gradu ac in aliis scholis regionis, ratione scientifica sit praestans.

Canon 807. The Church has the right to establish and to govern universi-ties, which serve to promote the deeper culture and fuller development of the human person, and to complement the Church’s own teaching office.

Ius est Ecclesiae erigendi et moderandi studiorum universitates, quae quidem ad altiorem hominum culturam et pleniorem personae humanae promotionem necnon ad ipsius Ecclesiae munus docendi implendum conferant.

Canon 808. No university, even if it is in fact catholic, may bear the title ‘catholic university’ except by the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority.

Nulla studiorum universitas, etsi reapse catholica, titulum seu nomen universitatis catholicae gerat, nisi de consensu competentis auctoritatis ecclesiasticae.

Canon 809. If it is possible and appropriate, Episcopal Conferences are to take care to have within their territories suitably located universities or at least faculties, in which the various disciplines, while retaining their own scientific autonomy, may be researched and taught in the light of catholic doctrine.

Episcoporum conferentiae curent ut habeantur, si fieri possit et expediat, studiorum universitates aut saltem facultates, in ipsarum territorio apte distributae, in quibus variae disciplinae, servata quidem earum scientifica autonomia, investigentur et tradantur doctrinae catholicae ratione habita.

Canon 810. §1 In catholic universities it is the duty of the competent statutory authority to ensure that there be appointed teachers who are not only qualified in scientific and pedagogical expertise, but are also outstanding in their integrity of doctrine and uprightness of life. If these requirements are found to be lacking, it is also that authority’s duty to see to it that these teachers are removed from office, in accordance with the procedure determined in the statutes.

§2 The Episcopal Conference and the diocesan Bishops concerned have the duty and the right of seeing to it that, in these universities, the principles of catholic doctrine are faithfully observed.

§1. Auctoritati iuxta statuta competenti officium est providendi ut in universitatibus catholicis nominentur docentes qui, praeterquam idoneitate scientifica et paedagogica, doctrinae integritate et vitae probitate praestent utque, deficientibus his requisitis, servato modo procedendi in statutis definito, a munere removeantur.

§2. Episcoporum conferentiae et Episcopi dioecesani, quorum interest, officium habent et ius invigilandi, ut in iisdem universitatibus principia doctrinae catholicae fideliter serventur.

Canon 811. §1 The competent ecclesiastical authority is to ensure that in catholic universities there is established a faculty or an institute or at least a chair of theology, in which lectures are given to lay students also.

§2 In every catholic university there are to be lectures which principally treat of those theological questions connected with the studies of each faculty.

§1. Curet auctoritas ecclesiastica competens ut in universitatibus catholicis erigatur facultas aut institutum aut saltem cathedra theologiae, in qua lectiones laicis quoque studentibus tradantur.

§2. In singulis universitatibus catholicis lectiones habeantur, in quibus eae praecipue tractentur quaestiones theologicae, quae cum disciplinis earundem facultatum sunt conexae.

Canon 812. Those who teach theological subjects in any institute of higher studies must have a mandate from the competent ecclesiastical authority.

Qui in studiorum superiorum institutis quibuslibet disciplinas tradunt theologicas, auctoritatis ecclesiasticae competentis mandatum habeant oportet.

Canon 813. The diocesan Bishop is to be zealous in his pastoral care of students, even by the creation of a special parish, or at least by appointing priests with a stable assignment to this care. In all universities, even in those which are not catholic, the diocesan Bishop is to provide catholic university centres, to be of assistance to the young people, especially in spiritual matters.

Episcopus dioecesanus impensam habeat curam pastoralem studentium, etiam per paroeciae erectionem, vel saltem per sacerdotes ad hoc stabiliter deputatos, et provideat ut apud universitates, etiam non catholicas, centra habeantur universitaria catholica, quae iuventuti adiutorio sint, praesertim spirituali.

Canon 814. The provisions which are laid down for universities apply equally to other institutes of higher studies.

Quae de universitatibus statuuntur praescripta, pari ratione applicantur aliis studiorum superiorum institutis.

Canon 815. By virtue of its office to announce revealed truth, it belongs to the Church to have its own ecclesiastical universities and faculties to study the sacred sciences and subjects related to them, and to teach these disciplines to students in a scientific manner.

Ecclesiae, vi muneris sui veritatem revelatam nuntiandi, propriae sunt universitates vel facultates ecclesiasticae ad disciplinas sacras vel cum sacris conexas pervestigandas, atque studentes in iisdem disciplinis scientifice instituendos.

Canon 816. §1 Ecclesiastical universities and faculties may be constituted only by the
Apostolic See or with its approval. Their overall direction also belongs to the
Apostolic See.

§2 Each ecclesiastical university and faculty must have its own statutes and program of studies, approved by the Apostolic See.

§1. Universitates et facultates ecclesiasticae constitui tantum possunt erectione ab Apostolica Sede facta aut approbatione ab eadem concessa; eidem competit etiam earundem superius moderamen.

§2. Singulae universitates et facultates ecclesiasticae sua habere debent statuta et studiorum rationem ab Apostolica Sede approbata.

Canon 817. Only a university or a faculty established or approved by the Apostolic See may confer academic degrees which have canonical effects in the Church.

Gradus academicos, qui effectus canonicos in Ecclesia habeant, nulla universitas vel facultas conferre valet, quae non sit ab Apostolica Sede erecta vel approbata.

Canon 818. The provisions of cann. 810,812 and 813 concerning catholic universities apply also to ecclesiastical universities and faculties.

Quae de universitatibus catholicis in can. 810, 812 et 813 statuuntur praescripta, de universitatibus facultatibusque ecclesiasticis quoque valent.

Canon 819. In so far as the good of a diocese or religious institute or indeed even of the universal Church requires it, young persons, clerics and members of institutes, outstanding in character, intelligence and virtue, must be sent to ecclesiastical universities or faculties by their diocesan Bishops or the Superiors of their institutes.

Quatenus dioecesis aut instituti religiosi immo vel ipsius Ecclesiae universae bonum id requirat, debent Episcopi dioecesani aut institutorum Superiores competentes ad universitates vel facultates ecclesiasticas mittere iuvenes et clericos et sodales indole, virtute et ingenio praestantes.

Canon 820. Moderators and professors of ecclesiastical universities and faculties are to ensure that the various faculties of the university cooperate with each other, to the extent that their aims permit. They are also to ensure that between their own university or faculty and other universities and faculties, even non-ecclesiastical ones, there be a mutual cooperation in which, through conferences, coordinated scientific research and other means, they work together for the greater increase of scientific knowledge.

Curent universitatum et facultatum ecclesiasticarum Moderatores ac professores ut variae universitatis facultates mutuam sibi, prout obiectum siverit, praestent operam, utque inter propriam universitatem vel facultatem et alias universitates et facultates, etiam non ecclesiasticas, mutua habeatur cooperatio, qua nempe eaedem coniuncta opera, conventibus, investigationibus scientificis coordinatis aliisque mediis, ad maius scientiarum incrementum conspirent.

Canon 821. Where it is possible, the Episcopal Conference and the diocesan Bishop are to provide for the establishment of institutes for higher religious studies, in which are taught theological and other subjects pertaining to christian culture.

Provideant Episcoporum conferentia atque Episcopus dioecesanus ut, ubi fieri possit, condantur instituta superiora scientiarum religiosarum, in quibus nempe edoceantur disciplinae theologicae aliaeque quae ad culturam christianam pertineant.