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Opinion: Why Catholic Schools Need Catholic Teachers, by Chuck Koach – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Chuck Koach, Catholic World Report, October 19, 2025

Chuck Koach is a senior at Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., and an intern at The Cardinal Newman Society, which promotes and defends faithful Catholic education.

If Catholic schools do not form students in conviction and clarity, secular ideologies are ready to fill the void.

If a Catholic school is serious about forming Catholic students, it must be equally serious about hiring Catholic teachers.

That shouldn’t be controversial. But in many circles, sometimes even within Catholic education itself, it is. There remains a strange reluctance among some Catholic institutions to affirm what should be self-evident: that Catholic identity begins with Catholic people. You cannot transmit what you do not live.

As St. John Henry Newman wrote, “practically speaking,” education becomes corrupted when it is separated from faith and fails to provide students with moral and personal formation; therefore, “the Church is necessary for its integrity.” ….

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Opinion: Why Catholic Schools Need Catholic Teachers, by Chuck Koach

7 Inspiring Quotes from St. Paul of the Cross, by Philip Kosloski

Why All Catholics Must Reject the “Judeo-Christian” Label, by John Mac Ghlionn

By Chuck Koach, Catholic World Report, October 19, 2025

If Catholic schools do not form students in conviction and clarity, secular ideologies are ready to fill the void.

If a Catholic school is serious about forming Catholic students, it must be equally serious about hiring Catholic teachers.

As St. John Henry Newman wrote, “practically speaking,” education becomes corrupted when it is separated from faith and fails to provide students with moral and personal formation; therefore, “the Church is necessary for its integrity.” ….

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