Somewhere amid all the things that come with being a high school – the football games, the English classes, the hundreds of extracurricular activities, and all the other things that take up most of a high schooler’s time at school – the Catholic high school has to fit in the Catholicism.

I went to a Jesuit high school: if you were to cut open my skull I think you would find ad maiorem Dei gloriam inscribed on my brain. But the precise impact of the Catholicism, of the school Masses on feast days and theology classes, of the various Catholic phrases that get bandied about, is difficult to evaluate.