Did you know that 25% of all U.S. schools are privately owned? A good number of them are affiliated either directly or indirectly with the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, many Catholic schools are not as religious as they should be. Hence, there is a need to save them using robust, practical measures. Here's how we are saving the soul of our Catholic schools.
1. We Use Our Faith to Mold Our Curriculum
One effective way to save the soul of our Catholic schools is to use faith to shape the curriculum. All of our curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular subjects and activities are molded from a Catholic point of view. Classwork and other activities are aligned with Catholic teachings in order to strengthen students' practice of their own faith. At our academy, our teachers use Catholic materials, such as the Catechism of the Catholic Church, to teach the fundamentals of the faith. Additionally, we draw examples from Scripture and from the writings of the Church Fathers when instructing related subjects. This ensures your child is getting the Catholic education you intend for him.
2. We Embrace Catholic Culture
The Catholic faith should be widely and regularly practiced in a Catholic school in which you enroll your child. The celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the source and summit of our Catholic faith, is the foundation of our school community. From the praying of the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross, to prayers before class and meals, from opportunities to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation to the daily study of the lives of the Saints, we embrace fully an authentically Catholic culture in our school.
3. Our Faculty and Staff are Devoted Catholics
The teachers, administrators, and other staff working in a Catholic school are significant in promoting Catholicism. Many Catholic schools employ staff members who may be lukewarm Catholics, those of other faiths, or even those of no faith at all! This makes it practically impossible to save the soul of our Catholic schools. A staff comprised of devout Catholics, ardent in their faith, will serve as excellent witnesses of their faith to their students, and truly enable Catholic schools to become places of evangelization. You can be assured that all of your child’s teachers are not just Catholics in name only, if they willingly make a Profession of Faith and take an Oath of Fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, as all our teachers and staff members do.
If you are choosing Catholic education for your child, don’t you want a school where the Catholic faith is central to the curriculum, where the fullness of the Catholic faith and culture is embraced, and where the faculty and staff are true witnesses of their own Catholic faith? If you are looking for such a Catholic school for your child, consider Regina Pacis Academy in Norwalk, CT.
