“Christ is the foundation of the whole educational enterprise in a Catholic School. His teaching gives new meaning to life and helps man direct his thought, action and will according to the Gospel…The fact that in their own individual ways all members of the community share this Christian vision, makes the school “Catholic”. Its task is a synthesis of culture and faith, and synthesis of faith and life: the first is reached by integrating all the different aspects of human knowledge through the subjects taught, in the light of the Gospel: the second in the growth of the virtues characteristic of the Christian.”

From “The Catholic School”, issued by the Congregation for Catholic Education 1979