MarylandARCH - Maryland Area Resources for Catholic
Homeschoolers
MarylandARCH is state-wide
advocacy resource for Catholic homeschooling families in and around Maryland, which
includes Catholic homeschooling families in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and
the Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.) and the Diocese of Wilmington.
MarylandARCH strives to bring
together information for all Catholic homeschoolers from across the state to
share with each other homeschooling news and events, support groups, resources,
and especially that which pertains to us as Catholic homeschoolers.
MarylandARCH endeavors to be
a resource site for those to turn to when trying to find out about Catholic
homeschooling in Maryland. MarylandARCH in of itself is not a local support
group, it is a resource organization.
MarylandARCH supports
Vocations - including the Vocations of Marriage, Priesthood, Consecrated Life.
This site sometimes includes Vocations events for Youth and Young Adults and Families
from all the Maryland diocese's.
Just as Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew I have been meeting to restore Christian-Catholic unity, Maryland Catholic Homeschoolers also supports restoring the Christian unity amongst our Catholic identity; Roman Catholic and of certain Catholic-Orthodox faiths. We have quite a number of Roman Catholic families and a growing number of Catholic-Orthodox families in our membership. We also accept members of the Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic, Assyrian Church of the East, the Polish National Catholic Church, etc of Catholic faith formations. We do not, however, accept all Orthodox faiths; only of particular Orthodoxy that follows Catholic teachings. Please contact us for additional information.
Cardinal Burke
stresses parents as primary educators of their children.
In
an interview with Life Site News during a break in the Synod on the family (in
October 2014), Raymond Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura,
stressed the importance of parents as the primary educators of their
children.
The
concept of parents as primary educators is taught by the Church and was given
emphasis by the late St. Pope John Paul II. It is also a founding
principle of Voice of the Family, the coalition of life and family groups
around the world represented in Rome to assist the Synod Fathers in defending
the family.
“The
children who come to life by means of the cooperation of their parents with God
are given to their parents for their education and upbringing,” said Cardinal
Burke. “And it’s actually the parents who choose any kind of outside education
that the children receive.”
In a
position paper on the subject, Voice of the Family says, “Parental rights are
under threat as never before, especially through the imposition of anti-life,
anti-family sex education in schools and through the provision of abortion and
contraception without parental knowledge.”
Having
seen those threats over thirty years ago, St. Pope John Paul II wrote in his
1981 encyclical Familaris
Consortio: “Sex education, which is a basic right and duty of
parents, must always be carried out under their attentive guidance, whether at
home or in educational centres chosen and controlled by them.”
He
added, “In this regard, the Church reaffirms the law of subsidiarity, which the
school is bound to observe when it cooperates in sex education, by entering
into the same spirit that animates the parents.”
Cardinal
Burke’s full remarks regarding parents as primary educators can be read on the Life
Site News site and video: https://www.lifesitenews.com/