Catholic Parenting

10/12/2023
|By Fr. François Bandet, EP

Summary of the Course

 

If you are a parent, or want to be, and you desire to raise your children well, because you realize that parenting is a God-given mission, access this course!

Throughout these five video-classes you will have the opportunity learn how to love your children with an authentic love. And you will become familiar with the principles that ought to guide a child’s upbringing — all based on Holy Scripture and the ever-current doctrine of the Church.

Fr. François Bandet, EP Fr. François Bandet, EP

Father François Bandet EP, born in Rantoul, (Illinois, USA) in 1962, is a French-Canadian from the city of Chicoutimi (Québec). After 35 years as a consecrated layman in the Catholic Community of the Heralds of the Gospel, he was ordained a priest on July 22, 2009 for the Clerical Society "Virgo Flos Carmelii". He obtained a licentiate (2009) and a doctorate (2015) in Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (Italy) and a licentiate (2021) in Philosophy at the Centro Universitário Ítalo Brasileiro in São Paulo (Brazil). He collaborates with the Thomist magazine "Lumen Veritatis" and is currently a missionary in Brazil.

Course Lessons

01.CP
Lesson 1 – Seven qualities of a good Parent

To raise their children well, parents must develop certain qualities. In this class we will discuss what a Catholic upbringing consists of and why it is so important…
02.CP
Lesson 2 – Key parenting strategies

Some Catholic parents find child-rearing terribly challenging because they do not know what to aim for, nor how to guide, teach and train their children…
03.CP
Lesson 3 – Parents: do your duty!

Does parenting simply consist of exercising rights over one’s children? Definitely not! Raising children entails…
04.CP
Lesson 4 – Caring spiritually for your Children

An upbringing focused exclusively on the material needs of the child is incomplete. Parents must also take care of the spiritual formation…
05.CP
Lesson 5 – Should parents correct or punish?

There exist controversies regarding certain educational methods and their implementation. In this lesson you will understand…

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