The Church’s teaching mission includes inviting young people into a relationship with Jesus Christ or deepening an existing relationship with Jesus, welcoming young people into the life of the Church, and assisting young people to see and understand the role of faith in one’s daily life and in the larger society. 

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Central to the mission of the Church is the work of Catholic education. The success of this mission depends on the key components of effective governance, which provides direction or authority, and leadership, which ensures effective operations.

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Essential elements of “an academically rigorous and doctrinally sound program” mandate curricular experiences — including co-curricular and extra-curricular activities — which are rigorous, relevant, research-based, inclusive, global, and rooted in Catholic faith and traditions (Fratelli Tutti, 2020).

In the words of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, “It is an education – at the same time – that is sound and open, that pulls down the walls of exclusivity, promoting the richness and diversity of individual talents and extending the classroom to embrace every corner of social experience in which education can generate solidarity, sharing and communion” (“Educating to fraternal humanism: Building a ‘civilization of love’ 50 years after Populorum Progressio” 2017).

Standards for operational vitality focus on the “operation” of the school - how it works and how it is supported - in four key areas:

1. finances,
2. human resources/personnel,
3. facilities, and
4. institutional advancement.

The leader/leadership team must manage each area and be subject to the direct oversight of the governing body in these matters.