Catholic education remains one of the most compelling expressions of the Church’s mission to form disciples. Despite decades of decline in the number of schoo

Archbishop J. Michael Miller distills the Church's teachings on Catholic education and explains the five marks of all good Catholic schools.

10. Plato from The Republic -- 11. St. Basil the Great from Address to Young Men on the Reading of Greek Literature -- 12. Hugh of St. Victor from Didascalicon

In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools—publi

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