(OSV News) — It’s among the shortest and perhaps least controversial of the Second Vatican Council’s 16 documents — four constitutions, nine decrees, and three declarations — and yet, it remains a touchstone for all the documents that followed concerning Catholic education. Read more
Students listen to instructions from freshmen chemistry teacher Anna Ashton at St. Peter Indian Mission Catholic School on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Bapchule, Ariz., Sept. 4, 2024. The school is a mission of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity out of Manitowoc, Wis., and was established in 1923. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
“The Catholic school’s most important purpose is to bring students into personal relationship with Christ and with God,” (Father Friedrich Bechina, former undersecretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education and research associate at the Boston College Center for Higher Education Studies)
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