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Catholic Education and Choice
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Research & Statistics
Education Choice and Catholic Schools Data
How are catholic schools impacted by education choice programs?
Catholic Choice Survey Charts
How many education choice students attend Catholic schools?
Catholic School Fast Facts
Get the data on Catholic schools around the country - the numbers, the impact, and the potential.
Important Church Documents
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Spectata Fides
Encyclical of H.H. Pope Leo XIII on Catholic Education, 1885 -
Acerbo Nimis
Encyclical of H.H. Pope Pius X on Teaching Christian Doctrine, 1905 -
Divini Illius Magistri
Encyclical of H.H. Pope Pius XI on Christian Education, 1929 -
Provido Sane Consilio
On Better Care for Catechetical Teaching, Catechetical Office of the Holy See, 1935 -
Gravissimum Educationis
Decree on Christian Education, Second Vatican Council, 1965 -
The Catholic School
Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 1977 -
Catechesi Tradendae
Apostolic Exhortation of H.H. Pope John Paul II, 1979 -
Lay Catholics in Schools: Witness to Faith
Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 1982 -
The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School
Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 1988 -
Ex Corde Ecclesiae
Apostolic Constitution of H.H. Pope John Paul II on Catholic Universities, 1990 -
General Directory for Catechesis
Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, 1997 -
The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium
Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 1997 -
Mission of Catholic Schools for Evangelization Today
H.E. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski – Prefect, Congregation for Catholic Education, 2002 -
Faith, Reason, and the University
Regensburg Lecture of H.H. Pope Benedict XVI, 2006 -
Address to Catholic Educators
Apostolic Journey to the United States of America, H.H. Pope Benedict XVI, 2008 -
Address to Participants in the Plenary Session of the Congregation for Catholic Education
H.H. Pope Francis, 2014 -
"The identity of the Catholic School for a culture of dialogue"
Instruction of the Congregation for Catholic Education
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