As students have bid farewell to summer and settled back to school, Catholic education in Ontario may be at a crossroads.

Reading classics such as Anne of Green Gables, Farmer Boy, or To Kill a Mockingbird, some parents meditate on the adolescents portrayed—teenagers eager to master the virtues of free, responsible citizens. We wonder if our schools are getting it wrong.

Anything media-wise can be faked today. Anything. We are living in a world of smoke and mirrors and deep deception like never before, because we have powerful tools of deception like never before.