“Educating is not a profession but an attitude, a way of being; in order to educate it is necessary to step out of ourselves and be among young people, to accompany them in the stages of their growth, with the sole objective of training and helping to develop mature people who are simple, competent and honest, who know how to love with faithfulness, who can live life as a response to God’s call, and their future profession as a service to society. Without consistency it is impossible to educate!”
Our school is Catholic, so we are committed to teaching truth — not propaganda of any kind. No truth can contradict another truth. Faith is above reason, but there can never be a contradiction between faith and science, because both originate in God.
Creationism is not a scientific theory about the beginning of the world; it is faith in God’s presence and activity in the whole world’s origin and development, which science tries to explain in its own ways.
Biology alone cannot fully present the specificity of humans among animals, because its field of study is the body, while the soul is outside its scope. Every human life is to be protected from conception to natural end, and sexuality directed toward the full growth of both individual and society.
While criticising fundamentalism and other perversions of religion, we refuse negative presentations of religion shaped by Marxism. Despite human weaknesses, Christian missionaries should not be classified simply as “agents of colonisation”: their reasons and aims were usually very different from those of traders, explorers and politicians, and they often came from countries that had not colonised the African peoples they served.
They offered their lives to share with Africans their own treasure — Jesus Christ and his love without borders — to replace superstition, tribalism, slavery and the oppression of women.
Read the full original statement on the school’s legacy site: alfashule.ac.tz/ourstand