Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast) The Mission Every Catholic School Must Embrace
Apr 8, 2026
Christina Mehaffey, principal of Faustina Academy in Irving, Texas, is a seasoned Catholic educator forming students for holiness. She discusses making heaven the school’s guiding mission. Short takes cover social media bans, parental education, teaching attention and virtue, hiring teachers who live the faith, and keeping athletics subordinate to formation.
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All Decisions Must Serve The Goal Of Heaven
- The school's single unifying purpose is to form students to get to heaven, and that mission must trump every operational decision.
- Christina Mehaffey designs curriculum, hiring, admissions, and discipline explicitly around eternal salvation as the priority.
Run Live Parent Trainings On New Apps
- Educate parents proactively about new apps and online risks with mandatory age-group meetings that demonstrate live how platforms expose kids.
- Use an IT expert and show suggested feeds and how scrolling leads to inappropriate content to secure parental buy-in.
Social Media Rewires Attention And Friendship
- Social platforms are engineered for addiction via likes, streaks, and endless scrolling, which reshapes attention, relationships, and classroom behavior.
- Christina links early addictive patterns to declining participation, secretive behavior, and damaged friendships.