The Mission Every Catholic School Must Embrace

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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4.9 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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As Catholic schools navigate a world increasingly hostile to virtue, Dave VanVickle sits down with Christina Mehaffey, principal of Faustina Academy in Irving, Texas, to explore how a school can authentically live its Catholic mission. From social media policies to forming saints, Christina shares insights on creating a culture where students, families, and teachers work together to evangelize and pursue holiness.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:03.1	To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com.
0:11.4	The reason why we breathe every day is to get to heaven.
0:14.8	That's what God made us for.
0:16.6	So if that's our mission, then everything we do at the school must be geared towards that mission.
0:21.4	Everything.
0:33.7	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, every knee shall bow your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:40.3	This is Dave Van Vickle, and this is thankfully your last episode without my partner, Michael Gormley.
0:46.1	Gomer is still out taking care of family stuff, but next week we start our new season on the OCIA process.
0:53.2	So we're going to be talking all about that.
0:55.1	If you haven't heard, America is hitting record numbers for people coming into the church this
1:00.3	year, particularly between the ages of 18 and 30, it is unbelievable records that are being built.
1:07.8	I saw yesterday the Diocese of Brooklyn is bringing in 1,500 young adults
1:12.9	into the church at the Easter vigil. Just young adults. It is incredible. And we're seeing this all
1:18.7	across the country that even tiny churches have doubled their numbers, sometimes quadrupled their
1:23.3	numbers for OCIA. So we want to do a season on what is it? What's the process look like?
1:29.3	There's so many people out there that go to mass with their families and they're sitting
1:36.1	on the fence because they're nervous about the OCIA process. And there's so many people out there
1:40.3	that maybe have just gone through the OCIA process, but it wasn't great. And so what we're
1:45.7	going to do is do a great season on, you know, what does it mean? What is the process for? Who's it for?
1:51.8	What should you learn? What should you not be learning and all that kind of stuff? So join us.
1:56.8	Yeah, next week we'll start that series on OCIA and Gomer will be back with us.
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