Catholic education must focus on risen Lord, archbishop says

Published: 2008-03-27

INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- Catholic education is fundamentally about "the risen Lord," Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk told Catholic educators during the opening Mass for the National Catholic Educational Association convention March 25 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. "Every educational undertaking of the church -- colleges, high schools, elementary schools, seminaries, parish schools of religion, adult education programs, novitiates, the publication of textbooks -- they are all ultimately about the risen Christ," he told about 2,500 educators. He also said that if the Resurrection is separated from Catholic schools, they cease to be Catholic. "Nothing that we do, nothing that we teach can be detached from the resurrection of Christ and still claim to be Catholic education," Archbishop Pilarczyk said in his homily. "If we can't point to some connection with the risen Christ in what we do and teach, then we are not doing and teaching Catholic education."

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