Church documents, from papal encyclicals, the Sacred Congregation of Catholic Education at the Vatican and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, provide a treasury of inspiration for the Catholic educator
Catholic education in the United States has gone through a great transformation in the past decades. The current American Catholic school system was built on the foundation of the hard work and selfless sacrifice of countless thousands of religious, a majority of them female, who opened, administered and taught in parish elementary schools and both parish and private secondary schools in response to the Council of Baltimore's challenge that every Catholic child have …