Among the many benefits of Catholic education, the pursuit of academic excellence stands at the top, alongside instruction in the Catholic faith. Parents are sure to find numerous advantages of Catholic education for their children but encouraging them in their faith is a major benefit. According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, about 17.4% of students in Catholic schools are not Catholic. Here are a few examples of how Catholic schools encourage students to deepen their relationship with Christ and witness to them how to live lives of Christian virtue.
The Amount of Time In School
Students in a Catholic school setting are immersed in the culture of their Catholic faith throughout the school day. For six to eight hours each day, a child is exposed to faculty, staff, and their fellow students who share their Catholic faith. They are surrounded by not only adults, but their peers, who live out their Catholic faith both in word and action. Through this full immersion in an authentically Catholic culture, children come to understand this way of living as completely natural and second nature so that it will be easier for them to live out this life long after they graduate from school.
Lessons Are Taught About Morality and Faith
In a Catholic school, children are exposed to the full breadth of two thousand years of Catholic teaching and moral instruction. There are two primary teaching foundations in Catholic schools. One is rooted in the pursuit of academic excellence, and the other is in the perennial teachings of the Church following Christ’s great commandment to go out and make disciples of all nations.
These two foundations are two sides of the same coin and Catholic educators teach students with a approach that prioritizes both. Children are challenged intellectually to work to their full potential, and at the same time, they are motivated to mature in their faith life through authentic Catholic teaching.
Children Receive Catholic Instruction Regularly
Children that attend secular schools are often taught to separate their religious life from their “real life” or life at school. Catholic school students live their faith life every day openly and freely. They are encouraged to talk about their relationship with Christ and they participate in Catholic devotions and prayer. There is no separation between their Catholic faith and their academic life – they are fully integrated with each other.
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