Ensuring a Catholic school has a strong Catholic identity should shape everything about it, from its design to the wages it pays its staff, as well as the formation of the children A few years ago we asked several architects to submit bids for a major school refurbishment. Their bid was to include suggestions on how they would show the school’s Catholic identity. Some included merely cosmetic ideas of crosses and statues; one said that the chapel would be at the heart of the building, clearly visible, inviting and accessible. Christ would then be at the heart of the school; he would be the heartbeat of the school.Another response came from an architect who had no explicit religious faith, but he believed that the faith of the community was in a Creator God, present in the world. Hi