Academics

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“The responsibility of a Catholic school is enormous and complex. It must respect and obey the laws that define methods, programmes, structure, etc., and at the same time it must fulfill its own educational goals by blending human culture with the message of salvation into a coordinated programme; it must help each of the students to actually become the ‘new creature’ that each one is potentially, and at the same time prepare them for the responsibilities of an adult member of society. This means that a Catholic school needs to have a set of educational goals which are ‘distinctive’ in the sense that the school has a specific objective in mind, and all of the goals are related to this objective.” (Congregation for Catholic Education, The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School, 100)