• To support Catholic Education and its contribution to the culture
• To contribute to the creation of a new vision of Catholic education by:
• exploring important issues that challenge the field
• drawing upon the philosophical and theological traditions of Catholic education, as well as an interdisciplinary persecutive, in analyzing these issues, and
• examining selected research studies that relate to the purposes and practices of Catholic education, and
• To nourish the ministerial role of educators by exploring the relationship between Christian faith and professional practice.
• To challenge Catholic educators to rethink from an inquiry orientation their positions on the major questions confronting their institutions and their unique traditions.