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"Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts, but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.”

Saint John Paul II wrote these words to the American bishops in 1988. His words echo still. Challenged by these words, it is the desire of Saint John Paul the Great Academy to take up the standard of catholic education as proposed by Holy Mother Church.

All this we desire to do in the modern-day areopagus of New York City. We hold firm to the mandate of Jesus Christ to teach all nations trusting that He will be with us until the end of the age (cf. Matthew 28:18).

Pope Francis has also spoken of the great need to reach out to modern man.

“The church is called to come out of herself and to go to the peripheries, not only geographically, but also the existential peripheries: the mystery of sin, of pain, of injustice, of ignorance and indifference to religion, of intellectual currents and of all misery.”

The one remedy for humanity is Jesus Christ. We must authentically educate and integrally form young people to know Him, love Him and serve Him. It is our firm hope that the Saint John Paul the Great Academy can faithfully and creatively labor in the world for the glory of God and salvation of souls.