Newman Guide Recommended

May 22, 2o26

We are excited to announce that Chesterton Academy of St. Margaret Clitherew is now a Newman Guide Recommended School.

The Cardinal Newman Society recommends K-12 schools committed to upholding standards of faithful Catholic education. The Society’s policy and curriculum standards are derived from guidance via Church councils, popes, Vatican congregations, bishops conferences, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and other Church documents.

Holding our school out as an exemplar of faithful Catholic education, our recognition status publicly affirms our commitment to the five Principles of Catholic Identity in Education, the Catholic Curriculum Standards, and the Cardinal Newman Policy Standards listed below.

As a Newman Guide Recommended school, we affirm that our administration and faculty are aware of and committed to the recognition requirements detailed on their website.

School Affirmations - Cardinal Newman Society

A Newman Guide School’s public presentation emphasizes the following elements clearly and explicitly highlights them throughout its publications, policies, website, and facilities and taking them into account in all programming and strategic planning.We conform to the Catholic Curriculum Standards.

Newman Guide Schools consult the Catholic Curriculum Standards to help drive instruction. Those who select and guide the school’s curriculum are fully versed in the Catholic Curriculum Standards. Newman Guide Schools ensure that the curriculum:

  • provides for the integral formation of the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—in light of his or her ultimate end and the good of society;

  • presents all branches of knowledge as being connected, complementing each other, and ultimately connected to God, the source of them all;

  • helps students know and understand objective reality, including transcendent truth, which is knowable by reason and faith and finds its origin, unity, and end in God;

  • illumines with the light of faith everything the students learn about the world, life, and the human person;

  • cultivates in students not only the intellectual but also the creative and aesthetic faculties;

  • encourages a synthesis of Catholic faith, life, and culture; and

  • develops a Catholic worldview and enables a deeper incorporation of the student into the heart of the Catholic Church.

For more information and resources related to the Catholic Curriculum Standards, click here.

Questions or concerns can be sent to NewmanGuide@CardinalNewmanSociety.org.