Youth Education in Contest

This article aims to understand the enunciative flows and frictions of the Catholic Church on youth education. It uses the qualitative approach and its research materials are some bibliographic and documentary references, with special emphasis on the encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, promulgated by Pius XI, on December 31, 1929. It uses the description and analysis of utterances as theoretical-methodological contributions. It considers that youth education has become the agenda of dispute between the Catholic Church, the family and civil society. According to Pius XI, there was a hierarchy between such institutions that could not be challenged. The father and mother, as Christian devotees, used to be considered the first educators and should be attentive to their functional roles at home. Without the execution of these prescriptions, youth education could be weakened or even succumbed in "modern times".