Teaching Bioethics to Teenagers

John Paul the Great High School is in its second year of operation after 13 years of planning. Bishop Paul Loverde said it was his conviction that Catholics need to be educated in the fullness of their faith that led him to put such a strong emphasis on bioethics into the new school's curriculum. "There are many people who do not understand the Church’s teachings on life. Young people must be formed in the beauty of this teaching," the bishop explained. With the only curriculum of its kind at the high school level, students are given a strong dose of the philosophical principles that underpin the Church's teaching on the culture of life in a four-year comprehensive program. The school's principal, Sister Mary Jordan Hoover, said that: "We are trying to frame the entire education around Jesus Christ and moral truth, as is reflected in the architecture with the chapel as the center of the campus." Zenit