Gravissimum Educationis

Abstract

Given the complex subject of education and the diverse needs of different parts of the world in this area, Vatican II’s Declaration on Christian Education, Gravissimum Educationis, specifically sets forth only general principles that are to be adapted later to particular circumstances by the appropriate Congregation. As such, this essay proceeds by first setting forth the contents of GE. In the second place, it then discusses a number of documents from the Congregation of Catholic Education that implement the general norms of GE, including: The Catholic School (1977), Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to the Faith (1982), The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School (1988), and The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium (1997). The last part of the essay focuses on the challenges facing Catholic universities in the United States at the present time in light of GE’s general principles.

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