"I wish the intellect to range with the utmost freedom, and religion to enjoy an equal freedom; but what I am stipulating for is, that they should be found in one and the same place, and exemplified in the same persons. It will not satisfy me, what satisfies so many, to have two independent systems, intellectual and religious, going at once side by side by a sort of division of labor, and only accidentally brought together... I want the intellectual layman to be religious, and the devout ecclesiastic to be intellectual."
John Henry Cardinal Newman

This is the educational philosophy of John Henry Cardinal Newman, the namesake of Newman Catholic Schools. Newman Catholic High School students are familiar with his prayer for such unity which declares that we are "a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons." Cardinal Newman's philosophy about education was that a person's faith and their education should be one in the same, and that each endeavor should build upon the other.

It is in this spirit that we encourage our students to get involved in service and volunteer activities that will teach them the value of serving others out of the goodness of their hearts. There are many opportunities to learn humility and to do God's work in Newman Catholic Schools.