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Catholic Dialogue Schools

Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project

Catholic Education in the Diocese of Cairns partners with theologians and researchers at KU Leuven (Catholic University, Leuven) to find ways to make our schools the best Catholic Dialogue schools.  Our work with the university informs the ways we teach, learn, and live out the Catholic faith in our increasingly multi-cultural and multi-faith school settings, to make them welcoming and inclusive.

For further information, visit KU Leuven’s Enhancing Catholic School Identity site.

What does a Catholic school look like today?

Our Catholic schools are places of welcome and openness to encounter each other in community, based on the teachings of Jesus.  They are places of hospitality, cultural safety and belonging. 

Catholic schools celebrate and educate the whole person – gifts and talents, rights and responsibilities.  We honour the role of caregivers as first educators of our students and seek to journey alongside and nurture each young person to the fullness of who they hope to be.

Our schools are Christ-centred and inspired to provide a responsive and engaging education for young learners.  We employ highly effective staff, who have access to specialist knowledge and quality resources, so that students experience the success they need to extend their personal learning.

What does it mean to be a member of a Catholic school community today? 

Over the last sixty years, Catholics have been invited on a journey to explore and celebrate who they are and how they live out their Catholic faith in the world.  At Catholic Education in the Diocese of Cairns, we try to follow the example of inspirational Church leaders to be invitational, open, and inclusive to those we encounter.

The Diocese of Cairns has been enriched by the wisdom of First Nations peoples, the Gospel Story, and the vision of our founders.  Respectful, life-giving relationships with ourselves, creation, community, and God are at the core of who we are and what we stand for.  Through the gift of growing each other in Catholic community, we hope to become the ‘fullness’ of all we are called to be. 

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