In his address to Catholic educators during his 2008 visit to the United States, Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI said that "Education is integral to the mission of the Church." I could not agree more. And while the Church as a whole, and the Diocese of Fort Worth in particular, employs many means to carry out this ministry of education, I likewise must affirm the position of the National Directory of Catechesis which says that the Catholic school provides a "particularly favorable setting...with its daily opportunity for proclaiming and living the Gospel message."

Our Catholic schools support and complement all parents in their role as the primary educators of their children by providing, again in the words of the National Directory of Catechesis, "the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out" Catholic schools continually seek to provide each student with a daily encounter with Jesus Christ and show students how...

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