Catholic Diocese Of Joliet

Children and young people need to develop their physical, moral and intellectual qualities. They need to develop a responsibility of developing their own lives. Young people need to be helped with self-determination and make responsible decisions through helping to form their consciences. As they grow older, the young children should receive prudent education in matters relating to sex. The whole human person needs to be developed and stand within society and interact within society, and they have the right to make sound judgments and have a well-formed conscience and to know and love God more perfectly. Young children need to be formed as disciples of Christ, to learn how to pray and to learn how to serve and active in society, as evangelizers.