In a school un context "marked by serious hardships" and by "the widespread fatigue of teachers, who feel frustrated and consider their educational tasks constantly mortified", the Catholic school relies on the "integral formation of man", with the aim of reacting to "evils" such as "widespread subjectivism, moral relativism and nihilism". Today, those words were spoken by Card. Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, while he presented the document "Educating together in the Catholic school: mission shared by consecrated people and lay believers", and supported by the above-mentioned papal ministry. In the world, there are over 250 thousand Catholic schools, said the cardinal, attended by about 42 million pupils. "Assuring opportunities for reflecting on the educational mission shared by consecrated people and lay believers in Catholic schools": this is the most important purpose of the new Vatican document, which is meant "to encourage the training and the project skills of lay believers and the consecrated people in Catholic schools and in the educational field". And there is also the aim of escaping "the insidious temptation of giving up Catholic schools, owing to the incapability to manage them", underlined Grocholewski. He added that such attitude, caused by the "decrease in the number of members of the Institutes of consecrated life" is "inconvenient, as well as harmful".
