CATHOLIC EDUCATION IS ABOUT COMMUNICATING CHRIST (Letter published in Dom Post, July 8)

Marian School principal John Coulam says (July 6) ‘the role of the Catholic schools is to support the parents.’ That’s subsidiary to their primary goal which is stated unequivocally by the schools’ proprietors, the NZ Catholic Bishops, as ‘Catholic education is above all a question of communicating Christ’.  

The fact that children are booked into Catholic schools before birth shows that even when inadequately done – as will always be the case – communicating Christ produces the results parents want.