What Does it Mean to Teach at a Catholic School?
Christianity is not a religion about God; it is a relationship with God. Christianity is not a subject to be studied and mastered; it is a relationship with God where we learn more through humility and acquiescence. It is a romance with God by which we encounter the Truth of who we are, not by being taught and by learning so much as by Loving and by being Loved. Many understand Catholic education as a system of private schooling for the elite and college-bound. But this is not the origin of Catholic education. The origin of Catholic education was not college preparation for the social elite. If we look at the history of Catholic education, we find that it is rooted in the dream that especially the poorest and most oppressed members of the human race need a sense of Hope that they are more than what the rest of their society may tell them they are. It is a Hope rooted, not in mastery of academic sciences or arts, but in relationship with One who Loves perfectly and without exception.