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Offline SimpleMan

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Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
« on: July 03, 2022, 06:23:20 PM »
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    • Does anybody here know of a good, fairly brief, easily accessible resource (preferably online, preferably free) for teaching a short course in Catholic homeschool (Grades 9-12) on the principles and practices of good citizenship?

    We just finished Fr Bourmaud's (SSPX), requiescat in pace, short book from Angelus Press on Catholic social doctrine, but I am now looking for a kind of list of "best practices" for the Catholic young man or woman entering into majority, and into civic society.  Much of this is probably intuitive vest-pocket knowledge, and not even necessarily specific to Catholicism --- vote, pay your taxes, inform yourself on civic issues, go to town meetings, run for local offices such as school board or county council if you feel so called, and so on.  It can also extend to such everyday things as keeping up your property, working for the common good, not littering, obeying speed limits and "rules of the road", again, things that are pretty intuitive for any citizen who doesn't wish merely to live as a slug, leech, or parasite on the larger social order. 

    All I need is kind of a "bluffer's guide" or Cliff Notes-type summary, suitable for three or four class sessions.  This is part of a half-credit Grade 9 government course, in which we have covered, so far, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (both read in their entirety and discussed at length), the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights (at my son's request, and I was quite explicit that this was a secular, Masonic-like docuмent and assertion of various rights, as opposed to natural and divine positive law), the history of the civil rights movement, and, as I noted, traditional Catholic social teaching.

    Any ideas or suggestions welcomed.
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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #1 on: July 03, 2022, 09:02:06 PM »
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    • The New American magazine.
    Also the Homeschool Legal Defense quarterly magazine.
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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #2 on: July 03, 2022, 09:50:57 PM »
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    • Quote from: epiphany on July 03, 2022, 09:02:06 PM
    The New American magazine.
    Also the Homeschool Legal Defense quarterly magazine.

    We get the HSLDA magazine, and I used to get The New American (I was not a JBS member), but what I had in mind was some kind of short guide listing the essentials of good citizenship.  Since good citizenship is not solely a Catholic virtue, and Protestant and even secular ideas about good citizenship pretty much parallel ours, it might not need to be a specifically Catholic resource.  

    Working for the realization of the Social Reign of Christ the King, obviously, would not be a secular civic virtue, but many Protestants, at least implicitly, believe in a certain Kingship of Christ.  That's one thing they get sort of right.

    Boring personal note, when we went to the beach a few months ago, there was an unusually well-stocked bookstore there, and they carried The New American, but I wasn't willing to spend the $3.95 cover price (not bad for a magazine these days), as I reasoned that I didn't go to the beach to read, and I have plenty of reading material already.  Very often I engage in the medieval practice of awakening in the middle of the night, stay up for about an hour, read, and then go back to bed.  I don't have money to spend that freely on things I don't need.
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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #3 on: July 04, 2022, 10:20:50 AM »
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    • Quote from: SimpleMan on July 03, 2022, 09:50:57 PM
    We get the HSLDA magazine, and I used to get The New American (I was not a JBS member), but what I had in mind was some kind of short guide listing the essentials of good citizenship.  Since good citizenship is not solely a Catholic virtue, and Protestant and even secular ideas about good citizenship pretty much parallel ours, it might not need to be a specifically Catholic resource. 

    Working for the realization of the Social Reign of Christ the King, obviously, would not be a secular civic virtue, but many Protestants, at least implicitly, believe in a certain Kingship of Christ.  That's one thing they get sort of right.

    Boring personal note, when we went to the beach a few months ago, there was an unusually well-stocked bookstore there, and they carried The New American, but I wasn't willing to spend the $3.95 cover price (not bad for a magazine these days), as I reasoned that I didn't go to the beach to read, and I have plenty of reading material already.  Very often I engage in the medieval practice of awakening in the middle of the night, stay up for about an hour, read, and then go back to bed.  I don't have money to spend that freely on things I don't need.
    I don't know of another source other than those already mentioned.

    We talked with our children, especially when we were out and about, about everything.  We treated everything as a teaching moment. 
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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #4 on: July 04, 2022, 04:30:30 PM »
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    • As an adjunct to your reading material, watching this video with your children will teach them about REAL citizenship.

    https://aleteia.org/2021/09/22/justice-clarence-thomas-talks-about-how-he-returned-to-the-catholic-church/
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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #5 on: July 04, 2022, 08:32:42 PM »
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    • Quote from: SimpleMan on July 03, 2022, 09:50:57 PM
    .... Since good citizenship is not solely a Catholic virtue, and Protestant and even secular ideas about good citizenship pretty much parallel ours, it might not need to be a specifically Catholic resource. 

    Working for the realization of the Social Reign of Christ the King, obviously, would not be a secular civic virtue, but many Protestants, at least implicitly, believe in a certain Kingship of Christ.  That's one thing they get sort of right.
    What you say may be true, but still you need to be wary because of the confusion over the Catholic teaching on the proper rights of Church and state.

    I can’t really recommend any text but I wondered if this would help at all. I haven’t vetted it for newchurch thinking.

    Church, State, and Society: An Introduction to Catholic Social Doctrine on JSTOR
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fgpjc





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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #6 on: July 05, 2022, 07:39:15 AM »
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    • I have nothing specific in mind, but you might look for Civics textbooks from the 1920’s - 1950’s, from the days when schools taught Civics and History instead of Social (engineering) Studies.  
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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #7 on: July 05, 2022, 08:51:45 AM »
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    • Quote from: Seraphina on July 05, 2022, 07:39:15 AM
    I have nothing specific in mind, but you might look for Civics textbooks from the 1920’s - 1950’s, from the days when schools taught Civics and History instead of Social (engineering) Studies. 

    Actually, I have put together a lesson plan for the next two or three classes, that emphasizes civic virtues, as well as the traditional Roman virtues.  Voting, paying your taxes, and so on, are just concrete manifestations of abstract values and virtues that are good in and of themselves.  

    I do have one of those civics textbooks somewhere, but as I've thought it over, we need to get to the core values first.  
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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #8 on: July 05, 2022, 10:20:48 PM »
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    • Quote from: Cera on July 04, 2022, 04:30:30 PM
    As an adjunct to your reading material, watching this video with your children will teach them about REAL citizenship.

    https://aleteia.org/2021/09/22/justice-clarence-thomas-talks-about-how-he-returned-to-the-catholic-church/

    On the surface, this sounds inspiring, a Catholic Justice, speaking at a “Catholic” university, talking about his common sense upbringing.

    But under the surface, deep revolutionary currents flow.

    Today, Notre Dame is completely judaized.  This process started in 1953 when Fr. Hesburgh’s took control of the university.

    Let’s not forget, Notre Dame welcomed the pro-abort, mulatto, homo-commie, Obama to their commencement in 2008.  And at the same event, they handcuffed and arrested pro-life priests.

    Until there is a Catholic counter-revolutionary correction at Notre Dame’s core, it’s just wishful thinking.




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    Re: Traditional Catholic summary of good citizenship (for homeschool)?
    « Reply #9 on: July 05, 2022, 10:40:30 PM »
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    • We did the first part of the civic virtue section, that I was able to cobble together, in class today, and it went quite well --- discussion of abstract qualities such as honor, prudence, justice, and so on.  It tied in nicely with our study of Lesson 12 of the Baltimore Catechism #3 as to marks (visible qualities) and attributes (abstract qualities) of the Church.  One more advantage of classical, traditional Catholic homeschooling, is that you can tie together common themes in various classes, and use them to enrich each subject --- that's where having a single teacher (that would be me) for all classes comes in, rather than having pupils shuttling from teacher to teacher, each one doing their own thing.
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