It ought not to be controversial for the Catholic Church to proclaim that her schools
are profoundly humanist institutions, because for the Catholic Church, Christ is the
universal norm of all human ethical action - Christ stands before us as the model
human template, the ‘new Adam’ that redefines what it means to be human.
As Catholics, we may venerate the stationary image of Christ on the cross, with his arms stretched wide, embracing all humanity in the moment when he suffers and dies for us all. But as his disciples, we celebrate our faith in Christ as always ‘on the move’, inhabiting our world so that we can truly abide in Him as we journey through time.
We celebrate what one of the early Fathers of the Church, St Gregory of Nyssa, said of Christ: “Although he is great and holds all creation in the palm of his hand, you are able to hold him, he dwells in you and moves within you without constraint, for he has said: ‘I will live and move among them.’ (2 Corinthians 6:16).”’
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