Photographer Cristina Cabrera Jarro, FC
CV NEWS FEED // Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Miami, Florida welcomed roughly 250 new teachers at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year, who will be taking on the schools’ mission of teaching the Catholic faith.
The Archdiocese reported that the new teachers attended an orientation event on August 5 to prepare for the upcoming school year, network with each other, and attend talks on “mission and ministry.”
Jim Rigg, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese, said that the “mission” for the teachers and schools sets them apart from everyone else.
“What makes us different from public schools, [charter] schools, and other private schools is that we teach the beauty and truth of the Catholic faith,” Rigg said, according to the Archdiocese.
Zulay Pickering, an incoming Spanish teacher who previously taught at Catholic schools in Tennessee, summed up the schools’ mission by pointing out that Catholicism and typically non-religious subjects go hand-in-hand at Catholic schools.
She shared that someone had once asked her if she was a religion teacher or a Spanish teacher. Her response was, “This is a Catholic school. I teach prayers in Spanish and we pray in Spanish.”
“In a Catholic school everything goes together,” she added, according to the Archdiocese. “It’s interesting that they would try to separate them.”
