Already I can know something of the God-given ideal of human dignity and human destiny. But in a unique way God has made himself known through Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church so I can surely and fully find the answer to these questions. I learn that I am called to live in a relationship of love with God. That relationship both enables and requires me to love myself and other people in a way that affirms my humanity, upholds human dignity, and sets me on the way to the destiny God has prepared for me. For the sake of that relationship and to achieve that destiny I must live according to the moral order given by God.
Catholics have to be educated in the Catholic principles of morality.
They need to know the moral order whose bases are revealed by God in Jesus Christ. They also have to be motivated by a personal knowledge of God that moves them to live according to God's design. We, the Catholic Bishops of New Zealand, rightly expect programmes of education in Catholic schools to provide adequate knowledge of these moral principles and to provide important elements of that motivation. In 1986 the Government education authorities introduced a health syllabus into all schools, including Catholic integrated schools. That syllabus contained moral and ethical teaching on a number of points of human attitude and behaviour.