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1 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule
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Gereons family upbringing his schooling his membership of a Jesuit youth group called Bund Neudeutschland his Franciscan novitiate/seminary education helped to prepare him both physically and spiritually for the challenges of constantly living in an environment hostile to Christianity; he was nothing if not courageous.
2 - Feb 2016 - Royal Commission: I accuse! A travesty of justice, Peter Westmore
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Additionally from the time of his appointment to the Institute of Catholic Education (ICE) a body which spanned campuses across Victoria he spent an average of two days a week in Melbourne.
3 - Dec 2015 - Education: Religious education: parents' responsibility or school's?, Fr Pat Stratford
In an article in the October issue of AD2000 entitled New Perspectives in Catholic Education we read that a group of Catholic parents have written to the Catholic bishops of Australia urging urgent action on deficiencies in religion education in Catholic schools.
4 - Dec 2015 - Religious freedom: Catholic bishops face more than prosecution over marriage leaflet, Pat Byrne
Demand Delaneys wants the Catholic Church in Tasmania to implement a Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) awareness program for all staff and students within the Catholic education system.
5 - Nov 2015 - Salvation: "All Israel will be saved": Romans 11:26, Andrew Sholl
In the late 1960s when I was doing Bachelor of Education at the University of Melbourne during one of the lectures the lecturer (a nominal Lutheran of Hungarian background) asked: What does the Catholic Church teach about salvation?
6 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
This ideology leads to educational programs and legislation that promote personal identity and emotional intimacy radically decoupled from biological complementarity between male and female.
7 - Oct 2015 - Call to action: Call for urgent action on Religious Education
A lay discussion group called New Perspectives for Catholic Education convened by John Kennedy with members from six parishes and four dioceses in New South Wales has written to the Catholic bishops of Australia urging urgent action on deficiencies in religious education in Catholic schools.
8 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral statement: Marriage Reinvented?, Bishop Michael Kennedy
Then there is the inability of parents to opt their children out of sex-education classes in Canada which teach homosexuality and heterosexuality equally.
9 - Sep 2015 - Concordat: Catholic Church signs concordat with East Timor, Peter Westmore
Apart from the indigenous clergy many religious orders have been active in East Timor and are the key to the provision of health education and other services to the people.
10 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report
In 1961 Castro dismantled the Catholic educational system arguably the churchs most concrete influence on Cuban life through the nationalisation of all schools on the island.
11 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Pope Francis’ challenge to American Catholics, AD2000 Report
Junipero Serra was born on the island of Majorca just off the coast of Spain came from a poor rural family but received a good basic education at the hands of local Franciscan friars.
12 - Aug 2015 - Books: THE EAR OF THE HEART: An Actress’ Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows, Michael E Daniel
Taking her final vows in 1970 she has fulfilled a number of duties in the monastery including manual tasks such as woodwork to being the co-ordinator of monasterys education deanery.
13 - Aug 2015 - Obituary: Fr Greg Jordan: an exemplary Jesuit, AD2000 Report
From 1978 until 1986 Fr Jordan was Rector of the University of Tasmanias St John Fisher College where he was also chaplain to the University and closely involved with the Newman Association Friends of the Prisoners organisation and Catholic Adult Education.
14 - Aug 2015 - Pope Francis’ rallying call for the poor
Many priests and pastoral workers carry out an enormous work of accompanying and promoting the excluded throughout the world alongside cooperatives favouring businesses providing housing working generously in the fields of health sports and education.
15 - Jun 2015 - Books: THE UNICORN IN THE SANCTUARY: New Age and the Catholic Church, Br Barry Coldrey
While it can be difficult to understand the fact is that New Age teachings and attitudes are even seductively fascinating to some members of Religious Congregations including some Congregations founded in the Nineteenth century to provide Christian education health and welfare services to the exploding numbers of the Catholic working class throughout the Western world.
16 - Jun 2015 - Canonisation: Pope Francis canonises four heroic nuns, AD2000 Report
The Congregation which she founded is dedicated to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and promotion of divine worship; the education of poor girls and boys; catechesis and teaching; nurseries and child care and various other works of charity.
17 - Apr 2015 - Books: MARY: A CATHOLIC-EVANGELICAL DEBATE, Dwight Longenecker & David Gustafson, Michael E Daniel
It would form the basis of useful study and discussion and is a good resource for those involved in Catholic education.
18 - Apr 2015 - Palliative care protects human dignity, Pope Francis
The precept reveals the fundamental pedagogical relationship between parents and children between the elderly and the young in reference to the custody and transmission of religious education and wisdom to future generations.
19 - Mar 2015 - Books: MODERN MORAL PROBLEMS: Trustworthy Answers to Tough Questions, William B Smith, Michael E. Daniel
Thus while this is a good work for seminarians and priests it would also be of benefit for lay people particularly those engaged in education or various types of pastoral work.
20 - Mar 2015 - The parish priest and parish school, Fr John O'Neill
The parish priest is to have a special care for the Catholic education of children and young people (Canon 528/1).
21 - Mar 2015 - Challenging radical Islam, John A. Azumah
Religious education includes training in the use of weapons.
22 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
He mentioned one case where funds for education were tied to adoption of a text promoting gender theory.
23 - Mar 2015 - Synod: AFA calls for Synod to strengthen support for families, AD2000 Report
The purpose of the family is to serve as the chief functioning mechanism for the primary delivery of social services in the fields of nurture education health and welfare and is therefore also the fundamental economic unit of society.
24 - Feb 2015 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
It is so far-reaching that it could be considered an education in Catholic doctrine.
25 - Feb 2015 - Books: AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study, by Hugh Jackson, Michael E. Daniel
In relation to the educational debate Jackson notes that many of those who advocated secular education were themselves practising Christians.
26 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Catholic education, Allan Choveaux
Now of course one may not therefore claim that the current condition of Catholic education is the problem behind the dramatic loss of practising Catholics but one must recognise that Catholic education must accept at least some of the responsibility.
27 - Feb 2015 - The family and the Church in 2015, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
The family was crucial for social welfare because there was no other providers; also for health care as there were no hospitals to speak of; and for education as well because schools didnt amount to much.
28 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Education has an important role to play to make it happen .
29 - Dec 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
It is so far-reaching that it could be considered an education in Catholic doctrine.
30 - Dec 2014 - Books: IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE SPIRIT: Guide to the Sacraments in the Byzantine Church, Paul Simmons
In the Household of the Spirit meets a major deficiency in the religious education of most Western Christians: the sacramental life of the Eastern Churches.
31 - Dec 2014 - Obituary: Fr Benedict Groeschel, aged 81, dies in New Jersey, Peter Westmore
Deeply committed to education Father Groeschel taught pastoral psychology for nearly four decades at St Josephs Seminary in Yonkers New York.
32 - Dec 2014 - Separation of church and state: the position outside Australia, Frank Mobbs
Education is the responsibility of the 16 federal States ( Bundeslnder) and each State can decide how to organise religious education.
33 - Dec 2014 - Family Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on marriage and family, AD2000 Report
This love spreads through fertility and generativity which involves not only the procreation of children but also the gift of divine life in baptism their catechesis and their education.
34 - Nov 2014 - Letters: Eucharistic Prayers, Franklin J. Wood
Some years ago when I assisted with religious education at the local state school I presented a lesson on the ICEL translation of the Second Eucharistic Prayer.
35 - Nov 2014 - Family: The global attack on religious belief and moral values, Alejandra Fabris
We also know it is religious education that provides people with the means of protecting their best interests and the only tools for enacting real social justice because it enables them to understand that their human vocation points them not to the dark forces of this world but beyond.
36 - Nov 2014 - Episcopacy: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP appointed Archbishop of Sydney, AD2000 Report
The Archbishop-elect said the Catholic Church in Australia had made an enormous contribution to nation building through parishes education healthcare welfare aged care and more.
37 - Oct 2014 - Students: Young adult ministry on Australian tertiary campuses, Br Barry Coldrey
In the tertiary education context chaplaincy workers require the normal characteristics of their age group to be effective.
38 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
There are a lot of education institutions from nursery schools to colleges hospitals broadcasting houses human and civil rights organisations that are all initiatives of the Catholic Church.
39 - Sep 2014 - Books: JOURNAL OF A SOUL (John XXIII) and POPE JOHN, BLESSED JOHN XXIII, Br Barry Coldrey
She received her secondary education at a private school in Cambridge and her university degree at St Hughs College Oxford.
40 - Sep 2014 - Transmission of the Catholic faith in crisis, Peter Finlayson
If further evidence is needed to support my position ( AD2000 March 2014) that religious education (RE) catechesis programs used in (some) Catholic schools have been seriously flawed the disturbing results of a recent survey among parishioners of St Columbas Parish Ballarat North Victoria reported in the Ballarat Courier (15 July 2014) should leave us in little doubt.
41 - Sep 2014 - Students: ACSA Conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
While the corrosive message of the dominant secular culture and the uncertain - lowest common denominator - focus of some areas of Catholic secondary education have all played havoc with the faith of many young Catholics this sterile malaise was absent from the Lake Hume Resort Albury NSW during the recent 4-6 July weekend.
42 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The archdiocese does works of charity serving the youth and women with education and health and social development.
43 - Aug 2014 - Books: PRAY FOR ME The Life and Spiritual Vision of Pope Francis, by Robert Moynihan, Br Barry Coldrey
Dr Moynihan had a classic Ivy League education earned his BA in English magna cum laude from Harvard and an MA and PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale.
44 - Aug 2014 - Letters: School chaplains, Arnold Jago
In an alternative universe the government mightnt fund education at all with the churches providing schools and parents aware that children need absolute standards choosing faith-based schools rather than secular institutions.
45 - Aug 2014 - Factors in the success of Australia's young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
What has distinguished these young Catholic adults at Holy Hour from others associated with the secularised networks of the declining religious congregations of teaching brothers and nuns involved in education?
46 - Jul 2014 - Books: RACE WITH THE DEVIL: My Journey Racial Hatred to Rational Love, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
Concerned about some of the left wing ideology taught at school the young Pearce wrote an article for a National Front publication about what he perceived to be the Marxist bias in education.
47 - Jul 2014 - Boko Haram: Christians and Muslims unite against Nigerian terrorists, CNA-EWTN REPORT
The archbishop noted that while Boko Haram whose name means Western education is sinful began with opposition to Christianity and Western values its agenda has widened.
48 - Jul 2014 - Dubai: is this the largest parish in the world?, Patrick Byrne
Consequently Bishop Paul Hinder wants to strengthen the existing Church structures and invest more in schooling and education.
49 - Jul 2014 - Youth: Young adult ministry flourishing in Australia, Br Barry Coldrey
National Team members must have completed secondary education.
50 - Jul 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
In an open letter to government leaders the bishops said that their relationship with the state has always been based on mutual respect and pointed to Church-state cooperation in the fields of health education and social services.
51 - Jun 2014 - Books: A CATHOLIC ETON? Newman's Oratory School, by Paul Shrimpton, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) Reviewed by Br Barry Coldrey This definitive study of the pioneering years of Cardinal John Henry Newmans educational venture explores the thinking and influences which led to the establishment of the Oratory School at its first home at Edgebaston near Birmingham in 1859.
52 - Jun 2014 - Sisters of St Paul of Chartres and their global impact, CNA REPORT
We achieve that by taking care of the sick and of education.
53 - Jun 2014 - US Catholic school embroiled in dispute over Church teaching, Kirsten Andersen
Catholic educations easy bargain of dont ask dont tell concerning dissent against Church teachings and morality has coalesced into outrage from parents and students when high schools try to teach and enforce Church teachings wrote Rebecca Hamilton of the Public Catholic blog.
54 - Jun 2014 - Missions: Salesians appeal for Solomon Islands emergency
With a little over 40 per cent literacy education is the key to a brighter future that cannot be compromised.
55 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
School health clinic policies and abstinence education policies could also have been impacted.
56 - May 2014 - Letters: The perils of materialism, Fr Bernard McGrath
Education in virtue is badly needed for mature citizens to value and support family and community life and to promote the arts crafts hobbies and sports which nurture a healthy nation.
57 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
In such a society and culture the truth the goodness and the beauty of human life of the family and of religious conscience are violated by the will of those in power who make every effort through education and the communications media to obscure them from the consideration of the individual members of society.
58 - May 2014 - A new cathedral in the Muslim world
Does the Church provide education and social services for non-Christians?
59 - May 2014 - Sister empowers northern India's women with education
In a local culture prone to viewing women as property Sister Daphne Sequeira has dedicated her life to offering education and a hopeful future to those in northern Indias rural villages.
60 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Italian cardinal blasts diversity education Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco the president of the Italian bishops conference tore into plans for diversity education in the nations schools saying that a proposed program aims as an outright dictatorship aimed at flattening diversity.
61 - Apr 2014 - Russia: the rebirth of religious belief, Peter Westmore
The Russian Orthodox Church has also pushed the secular education bureaucracy to introduce religion classes in schools.
62 - Apr 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Visionary new UK Catholic College A co-founder of Benedictus College has expressed her hope that their education style inspired by the writings of Bl.
63 - Mar 2014 - Whither religious education in Australian Catholic schools?, Peter Finlayson
It was refreshing to read (December-January AD2000) Paul McCormacks albeit edited address delivered at a Catholic mens conference in July 2013 Catholic school education: returning to our roots.
64 - Mar 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Those stories need to be told said Christopher White the director of education and programs at the California-based Center for Bioethics and Culture.
65 - Mar 2014 - Holy See responds to unfounded UN Committee attack, Peter Westmore
Typical of the Committees recommendations is that the Holy See take active measures to remove from Catholic schools textbooks all gender stereotyping which may limit the development of the talents and abilities of boys and girls and undermine their educational and life opportunities.
66 - Feb 2014 - Books: THE IMITATION OF CHRIST by Thomas a Kempis, Br Barry Coldrey
Meanwhile Thomas Hamerken was born in Kempen a town a few kilometres from Deventer in 1380 and as a young teenager came to Deventer for his secondary education.
67 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Religious instruction, Mrs Rowan Shann
Religious instruction classes in a great many state primary schools across Australia and New Zealand use Connect material produced by Christian Education Publications (CEP) in Sydney.
68 - Feb 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
At a press conference on 19 Dec-ember Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski Prefect of the Congregation for Cath-olic Education said the Catholic identity of the school is fundamental.
69 - Feb 2014 - Victorian Inquiry: First report into clerical sex abuse released, Peter Westmore
These organisations provide a broad range of valuable services and social programs including child care education social activities spiritual guidance and sports and recreation programs.
70 - Dec 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
20 ISBN 978-1-61890-136-1 A Book of Saints and Heroines Joanna Bogle This book is about the remarkable women saints: martyrs mystics missionaries involved in politics and community life working in education and in medicine and raising families.
71 - Dec 2013 - Schools: Catholic school education: returning to our roots, Paul McCormack
There were many discussions during my Graduate Diploma of Education about what a Catholic school should be.
72 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Im thrilled that Campion College is making this form of education - which has shaped Western Civilisation for centuries - available in Australia.
73 - Dec 2013 - Pope Francis to canonise John Paul II and John XXIII next April, Michael Gilchrist
Monsignor Figueiredo who is adjunct spiritual advisor and director of the Institute for Continuing Theological Education at the Pontifical North American College in Rome noted that John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) was born to a poor large family and upon his election as Pope took the name John because it was his fathers name.
74 - Nov 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-701-0 A Book of Saints and Heroines Joanna Bogle This book is about the remarkable women saints: martyrs mystics missionaries involved in politics and community life working in education and in medicine and raising families.
75 - Nov 2013 - Schools: The future of Catholic education, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
On 20 August 2013 Perths Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB gave a public lecture on the future of Catholic Education in WA at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle.
76 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
At the conclusion of their meeting in September the bishops stated that the fraudulent use of public money deprives citizens of basic services such as quality education adequate health care decent roads continuous supply of electricity and drinking water.
77 - Oct 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-701-0 A Book of Saints and Heroines Joanna Bogle This book is about the remarkable women saints: martyrs mystics missionaries involved in politics and community life working in education and in medicine and raising families.
78 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Anti-religious bigotry, Peter Kamsma
Has this party realised that in areas such as healthcare education care of the aged and the most marginalised including the destitute and indigenous communities churches and religious organisations have played a key role in the provision of basic services to Australians?
79 - Oct 2013 - Church of Divine Mercy in Singapore: an amazing discovery, Kazimierz Kozlowski
These catechumens varied in age education and social standing and came from a variety of faiths.
80 - Oct 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
The goal of the seminar was to help leaders in the field of business politics and education in promoting effective change in society that focuses on the dignity of human beings.
81 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley
Lay apostolates in education formation evangelisation and social justice are being formed from the heart of the Church and with a focus on authentic conversion and universal holiness.
82 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
He added that the Church was ultimately responsible for the development and rise of culture and education in Russia over the last 1000 years.
83 - Aug 2013 - Books: FROM BROTHERHOOD TO PRIESTHOOD: Memoirs of Msgr William A. Mullins, Michael Gilchrist
Over a period of more than 70 years he has carried out an educational and pastoral ministry in three states New South Wales Victoria and South Australia as well as on three continents: Australia North America and Europe.
84 - Aug 2013 - University: In the lions' den: Catholic ministry on secular campuses, Br Barry Coldrey
But in the changed circumstances of the early twenty-first century tertiary education requires more effort at evangelisation and re-evangelisation.
85 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Christian civil rights, Name and Address Supplied
In Massachusetts families are denied the right to remove their children from corrupting sex education classes and an ensuing court case has overturned the constitutional right of parents to choose their childrens education.
86 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Healthy families vital, Brendan Keogh
The traditional family is the best department of health education and welfare.
87 - Jul 2013 - Obituary: Vale Fr Paul Duffy SJ (1931-2013), Anna Krohn
He would inspire many to take the Gospel intelligently to contemporary media politics healthcare education university life and to legal and social policies.
88 - Jul 2013 - Cardinal Ouellet's Australian lecture: rediscover human nature, Owen Vyner
The Institute offers graduate certificates in religious education bioethics and marriage and family studies graduate diplomas in the same fields a masters degree in bioethics and theological studies (marriage and family) and a PhD degree.
89 - Jun 2013 - Books: SEXUALITY EXPLAINED, by Louise Kirk, Peter Westmore
Louise Kirk is the UK co-ordinator for Alive to the World a program which can be used at home or school presenting personal social and health education for young people in a Christian context.
90 - Jun 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
There is plenty more in this book including discussions about science globalisation divorce education the Holocaust and women.
91 - May 2013 - Books: SIXTUS V: the Hermit of Villa Montalto, by W.T. Selley, Michael Daniel
Selley served in the RAF during World War II and was a teacher and educational administrator.
92 - May 2013 - The plight of Egypt's Christians, Youssef Sidhom
The third and most dangerous form of discrimination is linked to education.
93 - Mar 2013 - Books: HOLY MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND BEYOND, by Pope Benedict XVI, Michael Daniel
As with his previous volumes of reflections Benedict writes in such a way as to make the life and thought of each holy person considered accessible to the average reader and this work does not presume a specialist theological education.
94 - Mar 2013 - Books: BECOME WHAT YOU ARE: Growing in Christian Character, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Brother Barry Coldrey
This is a book for thoughtful readers especially those working in secondary or tertiary education.
95 - Mar 2013 - Medieval parish life: influential roles of religious orders, Frank Mobbs
This recruitment method was gradually abandoned with entrants spending a year in a novitiate being taught to read so as to be able to recite the offices and do spiritual reading; but most had little book education.
96 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
Dr David Wetherell is Honorary Fellow in History in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University in Victoria.
97 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
If George Orwell were still alive today he would certainly have material to write a sequel to his famous novel 1984 in which the totalitarian state amongst other things found effective means for distancing children from their parents and monopolising the control of educational processes especially on moral issues.
98 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World
Dr Ryan Messmore set out his approach to tertiary education as follows: My family and friends often ask me why we gave up a secure job in the US capital to move Down Under.
99 - Feb 2013 - Schools: Drawing pupils to God through the true, the good and the beautiful, Rosemary Anderson
Now people know this place will be there and their kids are getting a phenomenal education and parents dont have to worry that it will close in a few years.
100 - Feb 2013 - Religious freedom: The widows of Kandmahal: anti-Christian violence in India, Babette Francis
She has sent her two young daughters to hostels for their safety and education .
101 - Dec 2012 - Books: A BIBLICAL SEARCH FOR THE CHURCH CHRIST FOUNDED, by Linus F. Clovis, Michael Daniel
This is an extremely well written defence of the Catholic Churchs raison dtre and is designed to be read by anyone with at least a junior secondary education.
102 - Dec 2012 - Caroline Chisholm Library: Melbourne's hidden gem, Angela Schumann
Some years ago freshly arrived in Melbourne from an Irish Catholic rural community and a convent school education Caroline Chisholm Library committee member Terri Kelleher wandered upstairs from the Catholic bookshop on Elizabeth Street and found herself in the Central Catholic Library.
103 - Dec 2012 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 1), Frank Mobbs
The education of priests was rudimentary.
104 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
Many are also concerned at the inadequacies of religious education in Catholic schools and at the paucity of priestly vocations.
105 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The Archbishop who took office in March 2011 named five pastoral priorities: improving faith education encouraging vocations to the priesthood and religious life fostering Catholic identity and diversity promoting a culture of life and strengthening marriage and the family.
106 - Nov 2012 - Worldwide religious persecution continues, Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Today our focus is on threats to international religious freedom but there are also serious challenges to religious freedom within our own nation serious problems the Church faces in her life and mission in the United States - threats that could marginalise the Church and her educational charitable and health care institutions.
107 - Nov 2012 - Some good 'family' news from Russia, Babette Francis
Mr Medvedev also noted that today the Church cooperates with the government and with society: I am very happy that the State and Churchs initiatives could progress together he declared underlining the importance of Orthodoxy in young peoples education and for the defence of societys spiritual and cultural values.
108 - Oct 2012 - Books: AN AMAZING LOVE, by Father Ken Barker, Br Barry Coldrey
Two years later he was sent to the USA to do a doctorate in religious education and while there he was impressed by the charismatic renewal movement.
109 - Oct 2012 - Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Charles Morton
Approximately seven years ago Bill advised me that as he and Jo had been blessed with just four children he felt the need to assist a wider Catholic community through a sound religious education of more young Catholics.
110 - Oct 2012 - G.K. Chesterton on the decay of Western Christianity, Donald Boland
The subsequent years between then and now have seen the gradual re-education of societys attitude to sex so that its divorce from any natural connection with the continuation of human life is made as complete as possible.
111 - Oct 2012 - Missions: Father Raphael: dynamic Nigerian parish priest, Madonna Brosnan
Health and education On assignment to St Charles Fr Raphael encountered a parish house and school buildings in a sad state of neglect.
112 - Oct 2012 - The Year of Faith and true unity of faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke
A new evangelisation is teaching the faith through preaching catechesis and all forms of Catholic education celebrating the faith in the Sacraments and in their extension through prayer and devotion and living the faith through the practice of the virtues all as if for the first time that is with the engagement and energy of the first disciples and of the first missionaries.
113 - Sep 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi (Editor), Gerard O'Shea
Teaching the faith in Catholic schools: a valuable new resource A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION Leonardo Franchi (Editor) (Gracewing/Freedom Publishing 2012 252pp $30.
114 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Appreciation, Frank O'Connor
Also I am sure the vast majority of Catholics who attended schools before the vast changes to Catholic education after the Second Vatican Council would still be familiar with the word transubstantiation and be aware of what it implied with regard to the Blessed Eucharist.
115 - Sep 2012 - Survey confirms crisis of faith in Ireland, Michael Gilchrist
The Church provided education especially for the poor and this was to make a major contribution to Irish society.
116 - Sep 2012 - Sainthood: Cardinal Van Thuân: process to beatification 'very advanced', Michael Gilchrist
He was then imprisoned in a re-education camp for 13 years nine of which were spent in solitary confinement.
117 - Aug 2012 - Books: THE NEW EVANGELISATION: Issues and Challenges for Catholic Schools, Br Barry Coldrey
Its author Dr Richard Rymarz holds the Peter and Doris Kule Chair in Catholic Religious Education at St Josephs College University of Alberta and is a Visiting Research Professor at Australian Catholic University (ACU).
118 - Aug 2012 - Parents' love for their children: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
Saint or sinner We see the most hardened of criminals even people who have murdered cry joyful tears when their children are wed or insist on giving their offspring the most expensive education in order to ensure a solid beginning to their lives.
119 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Around the Western world today there are educators pushing for an entirely new education program for children.
120 - Aug 2012 - Events: Equipping Christian leaders for the challenges of secularism, Philippa Le Feuvre
The Master of Ceremonies for the event Mrs Kristan Dooley is Managing Director of Womens Forum Australia a womens research and education organisation which promotes life-affirming cultural change for women.
121 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey
After a typical Catholic upbringing and education with his four brothers he drifted until in 1972 at a prayer group a priest introduced him to faith in God and the Catholic Church in a manner which was particularly engaging.
122 - Jul 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-61890-418-8 A Companion to Catholic Education Edited by Leonardo Franchi et al This reader introduces the key theological themes of Catholic religious education today providing a core text for those who are being educated to become Catholic teachers and preparing to work in Catholic schools.
123 - Jul 2012 - Books: FR ALEXANDER MEN: Martyr of Atheism, by Michel Evdokimov, Michael Daniel
After completing secondary education Men studied biology at university.
124 - Jul 2012 - Austrian Chancellor's son: How faith helped to survive the Nazis, Michelle Baumann
Escape Von Schuschnigg Jr was able to complete his education and was then stationed on a naval vessel before deserting the German military and fleeing from the Gestapo making a harrowing escape to safety.
125 - Jul 2012 - Benedict XVI calls for reform of US Catholic higher education, Hilary White
This new and increasingly popular version of Catholicism became highly fashionable first at CUA the American Catholic Churchs flagship educational institution then throughout most of the Churchs most prominent colleges seminaries and convents.
126 - Jul 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Fr Samir said he still prays for an open society for all people in the Arab world but believes there are two road blocks a lack of experience with democracy and a lack of education particularly for Arab women.
127 - Jun 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-95790-026-4 A Companion to Catholic Education Edited by Leonardo Franchi et al This reader introduces the key theological themes of Catholic religious education today providing a core text for those who are being educated to become Catholic teachers and preparing to work in Catholic schools.
128 - Jun 2012 - Books: ABOUT BIOETHICS: Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Angela Schumann
Available along with Volume Two from Freedom Publishing) When a person expresses an opinion or argument two main areas of authority are sought: education and experience.
129 - Jun 2012 - Women Religious: Vatican takes action against dissenting US nuns, Babette Francis
They were all magnificent teachers and I was blessed to receive an education religious and secular not many in Australia are fortunate enough to receive.
130 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
They joined the bishop in denouncing the contents of some textbooks especially those used in Spains recently axed Education for the Citizenry course which encouraged children to explore all areas of sexuality.
131 - Jun 2012 - Secularism: Same-sex 'marriage' is an attack on parents' rights and religious freedom, Patrick Byrne
Legalising same-sex marriage is pivotal to the militant secular attack on religious freedom parents right to determine their childrens education and state-aid for church-based agencies.
132 - May 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-215-9 A Companion to Catholic Education Edited by Leonardo Franchi et al This reader introduces the key theological themes of Catholic religious education today providing a core text for those who are being educated to become Catholic teachers and preparing to work in Catholic schools.
133 - May 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi and Stephen McKinney (ed), Angela Schumann
A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION by Leonardo Franchi and Stephen McKinney (ed) (Gracewing/Freedom Publishing 2011 232pp $30.
134 - May 2012 - Letters: Education costs, Arnold Jago
Is that what we mean by resourcing education?
135 - May 2012 - UK Catholic schools under fire for 'homophobia', Hilary White
In a letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove in December Brendan Barber head of the powerful Trades Union Congress (TUC) wrote Schools now have a legal duty to challenge all forms of prejudice.
136 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
Tempting as it would be to lay the blame at a secularising media a corrupt entertainment industry or an overburdened public education system A Heart on Fire singles out the role of Catholic higher education.
137 - May 2012 - Obama imposes contraception document on UN, Babette Francis
This year the negotiations for the final outcome document focused on comprehensive sex education with the emphasis on comprehensive.
138 - May 2012 - Episcopacy: Brisbane's new Archbishop well-equipped for the challenges, Michael Gilchrist
There is need for a long term rebuilding of Catholic education.
139 - Apr 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-215-9 A Companion to Catholic Education Edited by Leonardo Franchi et al This reader introduces the key theological themes of Catholic religious education today providing a core text for those who are being educated to become Catholic teachers and preparing to work in Catholic schools.
140 - Apr 2012 - Missions: Where the Church's growth is fastest, Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil
The government and the tribal population accept us because of our contribution in the field of education.
141 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
The Christian churches are active in a vast array of social services - welfare hospitals service to the poor education international aid.
142 - Apr 2012 - Episcopacy: Perth's new Archbishop Timothy Costelloe ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
After three years as Religious Education Coordinator at Salesian College Chadstone he was transferred to Rome where he completed a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Salesian Pontifical University in 1991.
143 - Mar 2012 - Campion College's Summer Program on Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
Obviously the participants were giving thought to their future directions after completing secondary education: a gap year tertiary studies or perhaps the workforce.
144 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
Jaroslav graduated from high school in 1959 but for political reasons was prevented from entering higher education.
145 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
As the letter explains: By a single stroke every law where rights depend on marital status - such as employment discrimination employment benefits adoption education health care elder care housing property and taxation - will change so that same-sex sexual relationships must be treated as if they were marriage.
146 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist
Since that time proponents of discontinuity seeing Vatican II as a blueprint for radical changes to the Churchs authority structures doctrines liturgy disciplines religious life seminary formation etc have mostly dominated the key decision-making areas affecting religious education in schools priestly formation liturgy and sacraments and the religious orders.
147 - Feb 2012 - Reflection: Pope's New Year Message for 2012 underlines the right use of freedom, Pope Benedict XVI
Authentic freedom Every educational setting can be a place of openness to the transcendent and to others a place of dialogue cohesiveness and attentive listening where young people feel appreciated for their personal abilities and inner riches and can learn to esteem their brothers and sisters.
148 - Feb 2012 - Books: HOW TO GET EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, by Ian Plimer, Michael Gilchrist
Indeed the new Labor-created national curriculum insists that sustainability be brought into all subject areas and Australias various Catholic Education Offices have been organising conferences for Catholic teachers to explain this and other requirements.
149 - Feb 2012 - Letters: SSPX schools, Ken Bayliss
Father Edward Black Superior SSPX (Society of St Pius X) Australia some months ago announced a new era in SSPX high school education in Victoria and Queensland from the start of the 2012 school years.
150 - Feb 2012 - Culture Wars: Catholic universities and secularism, Achbishop Charles Chaput
It applies in a uniquely hurtful way to Catholic higher education.
151 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Homeschooling, Matthew Buckley
As someone who has experienced most forms of education in my lifetime be it a Catholic school a public school homeschool distance education and finally university and employment as an engineer I know this statement has little truth to it.
152 - Dec 2011 - Religious education: Different worlds: being Catholic in Indonesia and Australia, Phillip Turnbull
Phillip Turnbull is a Catholic layman who taught religious education in Australia and is presently teaching in Java.
153 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
St Philomena School is emerging as a beacon in Queenslands somewhat beleaguered state of education.
154 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey
These young men are a striking inspiration for those older Catholics who see empty pews at Sunday Mass and are concerned at the state of religious education in many Catholic schools as well as the lack of priestly vocations.
155 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
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156 - Dec 2011 - Ad Limina Visit: Australia's Bishops reaffirm their unity with Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
He added: All the members of the Church need to be formed in their faith from a sound catechesis for children and religious education imparted in your Catholic schools to much-needed catechetical programs for adults.
157 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Spain as well as a number of other countries has recently introduced a course on Education in Citizenship in school syllabuses for primary school pupils which includes sex education.
158 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Bishop Morris, Michael Smith
The emphatic reply of no was surprising since the goal of orthodoxy in Catholic religious education was the intention of the evening.
159 - Oct 2011 - Catholic Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Sr Mary Augustine OP
They are not leaving school ignorant of their cultural heritage as so many young Australians seem destined to do given the present educational climate.
160 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell
The second thing I did was to reform religious education which is of course fundamental to the future and I was absolutely determined that I would change it no matter what.
161 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Maria Plustwik
I write regarding John Morrisseys article Catholic religious education: some grassroots views (June AD2000).
162 - Sep 2011 - Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success, Br Barry Coldrey
The keynote speaker (after the preliminaries) was James McDonald a lecturer at the Catholic Adult Education Centre who focused on the approaching World Youth Day and its theme Planted and built-up in Jesus Christ Firm in the faith.
163 - Aug 2011 - Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach?, John Young
John Young has taught philosophy in fo ur seminaries and to adult education groups.
164 - Aug 2011 - Obituary: John Wright (1923-2011): pillar of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
First educated at Kildara he attended De La Salle College in Malvern before completing his secondary education at Xavier College Kew.
165 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
This possibility also forms part of the education of the ecclesial community.
166 - Aug 2011 - The Carbon (dioxide) Tax: a religious perspective, Peter Finlayson
In addition according to anecdotal information the religious education system in encouraging an environmental consciousness has failed to get the correct balance between a (Christian) humanity-centred and a (atheistic) biocentric focus in accord with Christian principles.
167 - Jul 2011 - Books: A TOUR OF THE CATECHISM - Volume One: The Creed, by John Flader, John Young
The author Father John Flader has been giving very popular adult education courses on the Catechism for many years and his practical experience shows in this lucid balanced text.
168 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Lack of vocations, Susanna Vale
And it was true for a comment about an ex-priest in the Catholic Education Office was swiftly followed by threatening legal letters.
169 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Bishop or Pope?, Eric Rickards
Among the many achievements of Bishop Morris listed by Fr Dorfield were constant promotion of prayer liturgy and faith education; vigorous encouragement of lay people to take a constructive part in the pastoral leadership of local communities always in partnership with their priests; willing involvement with other Churches in ecumenical initiatives; .
170 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Catholic religious education: some grassroots views, John Morissey
A forum on Catholic religious education was conducted at the St Leonards parish centre Glen Waverley in the Melbourne Archdiocese in early April.
171 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
In particular he is denounced for emasculating the leadership of the Church who are clerical and compliant low on creativity leadership education and even intelligence.
172 - Jun 2011 - Archbishop Hickey: tribute to an outstanding Church leader, Brian Peachey
It was also overburdened with a huge debt incurred by misadventure and had a much criticised liberal religious education system.
173 - Jun 2011 - Redefining gender: an assault on human dignity, Babette Francis
This year for the 55th such meeting (CSW55) the theme was Access and participation of women and girls to education training science and technology including for the promotion of womens equal access to full employment and decent work.
174 - May 2011 - Literature: The 'impossible dream' of Don Quixote - Part 2 (Matthew 6:19), Andrew Kania
Even those among us who have been educated know that in relation to the Gospel our education is worthless so let all happily admit we are fools.
175 - May 2011 - Liturgy: Welcome to the new translation of the Missal, Audrey English
Audrey English teaches at the Centre for Thomistic Studies and Holy Family Education Centre in Sydney.
176 - May 2011 - University Life: Australian Catholic Students' Conference 2011 a success, Br Barry Coldrey
Two factors have wrought havoc with the practice of their faith among many young Catholics: the atomic radiation of secularism flowing from the cultural majority; and the uncertain lowest common denominator focus of an unfortunate proportion of Catholic education.
177 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
1 (right to education) to the European Convention on Human Rights.
178 - Apr 2011 - Catholic Church's pivotal role in South Korea's pro-life revival, Babette Francis
The initiative also includes setting up sex education for youth in Catholic schools and Sunday schools on preventing unwanted pregnancy.
179 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
The remaining religious are in various stages of formation or education and discernment said Sister Thomas Augustine.
180 - Mar 2011 - Books: THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK OF ATHEISM, Edited by Warren Bonett, Frank Mobbs
It is divided into seven sections headed: Overview Personal Education Social and Cultural Politics Philosophy Religion and the Brain.
181 - Mar 2011 - A bishop and his priests: united in truth with Christ, Fr John O'Neill
Presumably sincere educated and experienced men are in strong opposition to each other and in vital matters which are of the essence of our Catholic Faith even such things as the Resurrection of Christ the nature of the Eucharist Christian morality content of religious education and many more.
182 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
The Declaration on Christian Education Gravissimum Educationis of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council underlines the importance which the Church has consistently assigned to Catholic higher education in order that the convergence of faith and reason in the one truth may be seen more clearly.
183 - Mar 2011 - Faith and reason at Notre Dame, Sydney, Fr Richard Umbers
If you have a Masters or Doctorate it is most unlikely that you will feel content to simply get by with the religious education you received at school.
184 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Convey the St Elizabeth Ann Seton Professor of Education at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC argued that numerous factors had contributed to the decline notably a falling birth rate and weak leadership.
185 - Feb 2011 - Young children: never too early to love God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Many mothers and fathers do their best sacrificing their time and comfort to make sure their children have a good education participate in organised sports and socialise with others.
186 - Feb 2011 - Science and Christian faith: the case for intelligent design, Babette Francis
Even those of us with just a little science education - and by science I mean the kind of truth embodied in replicable experiments - realise that no matter how simple the elements were they cannot have come from nothing at all by themselves.
187 - Feb 2011 - Marriage: US bishops signal a tougher stance in the culture wars, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop Kurtz added that 4500 copies of a DVD Made for Each Other and its accompanying education materials had been distributed around the country and other materials were in development aimed at teaching children.
188 - Dec 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Chesterton he shows how this much quoted 20th century writer has plenty to say on topics of enduring relevance such as marriage education art politics and faith.
189 - Dec 2010 - Catholic origins: Psychology and Christianity: need they be at odds?, Wanda Skowronska
She is a consultant at the Congregation for Catholic Education at the Vatican and is currently working at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd in Homebush in the area of Human Formation.
190 - Dec 2010 - Congress for Life: Catholic orthodoxy: key to promoting the culture of life, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Now more than ever the world needs the consistent witness to the truth expressed in the Sacred Scriptures and in Tradition the basis for a culture which respects fully the gift of human life and its origin in procreation that is in the cooperation of man and woman with God through the conjugal union and through education in the home which they have formed by marriage.
191 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Burke is prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and the ecclesiastical advisor of The Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education a division of the Cardinal Newman Society.
192 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Declarations, Frank Mobbs
For example there are declarations on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions and on Christian Education.
193 - Nov 2010 - Ukrainian Catholics: Ukraine's University of the Catacombs, Andrew Kania
Sheptytskyi himself was a man of great education having earned three doctorates in philosophy theology and law and being also fluent in a dozen European languages as well as Hebrew.
194 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Vatican on parental role in sex education The Holy See is stressing the necessary role of parents in the lives of their children especially in the area of education on sexuality.
195 - Nov 2010 - Canonisation: St Mary of the Cross MacKillop: let the truth be told, Peter Westmore
Nevertheless she persevered in establishing schools throughout Australia particularly in rural areas where none previously existed so as to provide a sound Catholic education for thousands of children.
196 - Oct 2010 - Reflection: The faith through symbols and stories, Andrew Kania
However for symbols to bring light to the spiritual life they must be understood and for understanding to occur the process of education is paramount.
197 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
At a different level I believe that the gospel quality of our religious education programs for the young is equally important.
198 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
Research continually finds that married people are more contented and healthy and that children from stable families do better in all indices of education psychological health and self-image.
199 - Oct 2010 - Culture of Death: Euthanasia: latest frontier for legalised death in Australia, Babette Francis
I am equally concerned that the Attorney General will use the resources of her office to push this Bill when there are so many more issues which are a higher priority such as mental health welfare hospital and housing waiting lists and education.
200 - Sep 2010 - Formation: MacKillop College: Wagga's educational showcase, Joanne Andrews
A common area of concern among young Catholics is that of education.
201 - Sep 2010 - Natural Family Planning: Kyrgyzstan leads the way, Paula Flynn
Other courses followed and in 2007 two doctors and a nurse attended training in Krakw organised by the European Institute for Family Life Education and themselves became recognised trainers of teachers of NFP.
202 - Sep 2010 - University: Another successful Australian Catholic Students Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
While the corrosive messages of the secular culture and the uncertain - lowest common denominator - focus of much of todays Catholic education have wrought havoc with the faith of most young Catholics this paralysing malaise was absent from the Lake Hume Resort Albury over the weekend of 9-11 July 2010.
203 - Aug 2010 - Books: DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT CATHOLIC HISTORY: From the Catacombs to the Reformation, Terri Kelleher
Then into the bustle of the high Middle Ages the 12th century came developments in literature art education history philosophy theology and architecture as well as large-scale building projects including castles and cathedrals.
204 - Aug 2010 - Vocations: Mother Dolores Hart OSB: from Hollywood to convent, Michael Gilchrist
Dolores earlier had lived in Chicago with her grandparents who sent her to the local Catholic primary school not for its religious education but because it was close to home.
205 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Sacrament of Penance: whatever happened to confession?, Br Barry Coldrey
At his modern Catholic secondary college there was little systematic religious education.
206 - Aug 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
It is necessary that parishes and shrines realms of education and suffering families become places of communion with the Lord.
207 - Aug 2010 - Troubled future of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
We have invested in structures of religious education which despite enormous goodwill are not producing the results that they set out to do.
208 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
Cardinal Pell understands what is needed if we are to have a sound authentic Catholic education.
209 - Jul 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
In November 2009 the court ruled in favour of local mother Soile Lautsis case to remove religious symbols including crucifixes from public schools in Italy to ensure her childrens right to a secular education.
210 - Jul 2010 - Editorial: Religious education: the challenge of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
The challenge for those responsible for Catholic education is to develop fresh strategies to engage young secularised minds with religious truths.
211 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
In a similar way there were liturgical abuses which flowed from irreverence superstition and a lack of theological education among some priests and ministers.
212 - May 2010 - Culture Wars: Christians uniting to take a stand: the Manhattan Declaration, Bishop Julian Porteous
In every society marriage and family are the bedrock that sustains the health education and welfare of all.
213 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Christians in the cities - even in a general context of discrimination - live together in neighbourhoods called colonies and have access to education social services and work.
214 - Apr 2010 - Religious freedom: UK Catholic schools forced to teach homosexuality in the classrooms, Babette Francis
com reported in February that Britains Labour Government has clarified that an amendment to the Children Schools and Families Bill which says faith schools may teach the mandatory Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE) program in a way that reflects the schools religious character does not in fact give the schools freedom to oppose abortion contraception and homosexual activity on moral grounds.
215 - Apr 2010 - Formation: Young Australian Catholics commit to promoting Judeo-Christian values, Richard Lyons
Likewise Kevin Donnellys observations regarding the degradation of the education system added to the sense of urgency in changing society today.
216 - Mar 2010 - Books: LORETO IN AUSTRALIA, by Mary Ryllis Clark, Katharine Munro
As an educated woman Mary Ward believed that young girls needed a thorough Catholic education similar to that of boys and decided to dedicate her life to God and the education of young women with the watchword women in time to come will do great things!
217 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Evil laws, Ken Bayliss
He was like his great predecessor Pius XI who had a genius for adapting new leisure inventions like radio motion pictures and air transport for the education and edification of man and who gave us the doctrine of Christ the King (Quas Primas 1925).
218 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
In 1964 religious education in the schools was abolished.
219 - Mar 2010 - Secularism: Benedict to UK bishops: resist secularist threat, Michael Gilchrist
The rights to life to marriage to family; the recognition of the family based on marriage as the fundamental unit of society; the rights of parents to determine the moral and religious education of their children; and the rights to freedom of religion belief and conscience are all recognised by the major international human rights agreements.
220 - Feb 2010 - Books: FIRES OF FAITH: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor, by Eamonn Duffy, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Elliott is a Melbourne auxiliary bishop and Episcopal Vicar for religious education.
221 - Feb 2010 - Indian martyrs: Present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan, Babette Francis
More recently the government has offered free education and quota placement in government posts to dalits in a bid to improve their socio-economic status.
222 - Feb 2010 - Catholic Culture: 'A small brave initiative': Campion College's second graduation, Br Barry Coldrey
Purpose Campion College had been opened in 2006 on a six hectare property at Toongabbie near Parramatta in western Sydney its purpose being to provide a broad education at undergraduate level based on a curriculum of core subjects in the humanities and sciences suited to Australian cultural conditions and educational requirements.
223 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The EHCR had ruled that the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violated the European Convention on Human Rights protections of the right to education and the freedom of thought conscience and religion.
224 - Feb 2010 - St Mary Mackillop: Canonisation: about holiness, not miracles, Fr Paul Gardiner SJ
When Mary MacKillop died in 1909 she was regarded as more than a good woman who had done great things in education and care of the unfortunate.
225 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Greens and Church, Kevin Cains
With the withdrawal of religious orders from our schools funds contributed to religious orders by generations of Catholics to further Catholic education are now being used to promote the green religion.
226 - Dec 2009 - Episcopacy: Church leadership responsibilities: an American case study, Phil Lawler
How many children have daydreamed their way through religious education programs that offer no real introduction to the Catholic faith?
227 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Crucifix removal: Italy defies European court Italys Minister of Education Mariastella Gelmini has rejected the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in favour of removing crucifixes from public schools.
228 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
Haldane also concedes that the Catholic education system has itself contributed to this state of affairs: In earlier times training towards teaching had no particular tendency to weaken students faith and they viewed it quite properly as a form of preparation for entry to an important profession through which they could also serve communities.
229 - Nov 2009 - Schools: How to rebuild Catholic education from the grass-roots, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Let no minority group so much as hope to convert that ideologically driven pagan juggernaut the modern education system into anything remotely compatible with the mind of Christ.
230 - Nov 2009 - Campion College celebrates its fourth Year of operation, Br Barry Coldrey
Its Australian origins stem from the Campion Fellowship a national association of Catholics formed in 1973 to provide adult education programs.
231 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency New US guide to Catholic universities and colleges The Cardinal Newman Society has published a second edition of The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College a free online resource for parents and students seeking a faithful Catholic higher education.
232 - Oct 2009 - Books: THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY: St Justin Martyr on Religious Liberty, Robert Haddad, Br Michael McMurray CCS
Robert Haddad is well credentialled to handle this subject with qualifications in law theology and religious education and is author of the Christ the Teacher and Lord of History series.
233 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan
He was a member of the former Queensland Province Leadership team involved in teacher education in Southern Sudan and worked in the Darwin Catholic Mission.
234 - Sep 2009 - Campus Life: Brisbane hosts 2009 Australian Catholic Student Association Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
Over the last eight years some of ACSAs basic constituency students in tertiary education has changed as young men and women graduate and enter business and professional life.
235 - Aug 2009 - Priesthood: Benedict XVI's Letter to priests: follow example of the Curé of Ars
He devoted himself completely to his parishs conversion setting before all else the Christian education of the people in his care.
236 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency UN Sex education plans hedonistic values American pro-life leader Fr Thomas J.
237 - Jul 2009 - Books: Before the Dawn, by Eugenio Zolli, Michael Daniel
Zolli completed his rabbinical education in Florence and would teach at the University of Padua and be Chief Rabbi of Trieste before becoming Rabbi of Rome.
238 - Jul 2009 - Letters: Priestly celibacy, Brian Bibby
Parishes would have to raise enough funding for the priest his wife and children plus a vehicle for his wife and later for their teenage children plus the cost of a university education.
239 - Jul 2009 - Ryan Commission: Irish report: child abuse in Church institutions, Br Barry Coldrey
The education the children received is judged in the most pejorative terms and the State Education Department also received a blistering serve.
240 - Jul 2009 - Life Marriage Family: The secular culture's flawed view of sexuality, Bernard Toutounji
Bernard Toutounji is the Education Officer of the Life Marriage and Family Centre in the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.
241 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
To date 83 American bishops have publicly denounced the decision as going against the 2004 guidelines set by the US Bishops Conference for Catholic institutions of higher education which state that these should not bestow honours on individuals who act in defiance of the Churchs fundamental teachings.
242 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
They are trying to fit into their already busy lives study courses at Notre Dame the Centre for Adult Education or even Campion College out at Toongabbie for they now realise how ill-served they were by their education in Catholic schools.
243 - Jun 2009 - Books: Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs, by Peter Kreeft, Michael Daniel
Although it is designed primarily as a reference book rather than one that a reader would read from cover to cover Catholic Christianity would be an excellent resource for those involved in Catholic education parents who wish to supplement their childrens religious education or anyone who simply wants to clarify what the Catholic Church actually teaches on a particular doctrinal matter.
244 - Jun 2009 - Events - July: Australian Catholic Students Association: continuing spiritual impact, Br Barry Coldrey
Elise is active in the Newman Society religious education programs for secondary school students and sacred music groups around Brisbane.
245 - Jun 2009 - Sharia Law: Lights dim for Christians in Pakistan, Babette Francis
An integrated education strategy is as important as a security one: generations of the poor cannot be allowed to become fodder for Al- Qaeda and the Taliban.
246 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
Now John was a typical non-practising young adult Catholic one of the over 90 percent who spent twelve years in Catholic education without deriving much obvious spiritual benefit from the experience.
247 - Jun 2009 - Interview: American Catholics and abortion: the Church at the crossroads, Mariangela Sullivan
She is the flagship Catholic education institution in the United States; her votes are anything but private.
248 - May 2009 - Staying together: Stable families: the best defence against violence
It is vital that the education of boys and young men should lead them to understand the importance of fidelity to their essential role in marriage and family.
249 - May 2009 - Conversion: A Catholic convert's story (Part 2): Are there any regrets?, Michael Daniel
In addition several bishops have introduced reforms to their religious education programs with textbooks such as the Archdiocese of Melbourne series that contain a more comprehensive doctrinal content than those used by many of my peers who attended Catholic schools.
250 - May 2009 - US Catholics leaving the Church in droves: what can be done?, Fr Joseph A. Sirba
This must stop if we ever hope to have well-formed Catholic leaders in business education politics science the arts and medicine.
251 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Capitalism, William Briggs
His philosophy of culture war to weaken the institutions of church family education and media so as to radically alter the status quo has been vigorously followed since he was rediscovered in the 1960s.
252 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Dissent, Peter D. Howard
The Catholic Leader (8 February 2009) informs us that the ACU is now the primary higher education body for teaching theology for the Catholic Church in Queensland and that the new rector of the Holy Spirit Seminary Monsignor Tony Randazzo also hailed the change for allowing cross-pollination of ideas between the seminarians and the broader public .
253 - Apr 2009 - Andrew Cichy: A bold project to reinvigorate Church music in Australia, Anthony Barich
After being ordained at the Lateran Basilica in Rome on 16 March 1935 the now Fr Lynch returned to Perth to single-handedly change the face of sacred music in that city initiating a program of sacred music education in Catholic schools through which more than a generation of Catholic students learned the Churchs Gregorian Chant.
254 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
Meanwhile for one reason or another - including the Russian occupation of Poland during World War I - her education was interrupted and she completed only three years of primary school.
255 - Apr 2009 - Red Mass Homily: Catholics as 'bearers of light' in a secular culture, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
It was affirmed in the Declaration on Christian Education of the Second Vatican Council.
256 - Mar 2009 - Letters: Cure for AIDS, Ben Veitz
Weve spent billions around the globe and neither condoms nor education has worked.
257 - Mar 2009 - American seminaries mostly 'healthy', but many problems remain
Dated 15 December 2008 the report issued by the prefect and secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education offers a generally positive assessment of US seminaries but notes numerous problems.
258 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Inclusive language, Eamonn Keane
Groomes program for the reconstruction of the language of Catholic faith along inclusivist lines has influenced various religious education curricula in Australia which have based themselves on his Shared Christian Praxis methodology.
259 - Feb 2009 - Christian-Muslim dialogue: glimmerings of hope, Babette Francis
The big question is whether the excesses of Islamism - the lack of religious freedom for non-Muslims in Muslim countries the lack of equal rights for women jihad terrorism - are inherent in the religion or just excesses caused by tribal cultures poor education and poverty.
260 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
More recently he encouraged Catholic parents to use all legitimate means in your power to defend your right to determine the moral education of your children.
261 - Feb 2009 - The Statement of Conclusions: any signs of progress after ten years?, Michael Gilchrist
Your meetings with some of the Congregations of the Roman Curia have focused on questions of doctrine and morality the liturgy the role of the Bishop evangelisation and mission the priesthood religious life and Catholic education.
262 - Dec 2008 - Schools: Blessed Mary MacKillop Colleges: 2009 enrolments (Jindera, Wagga Wagga)
The decision to open the school was to provide an alternative for the many Catholic parents who have expressed a desire for a greater emphasis on traditional education in Catholic faith and virtues said Blessed Mary MacKillop spokesman and science teacher Mark Mannering who can be contacted for further information on (02)6041-2711.
263 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
Serious re-education in this teaching through home school and parish would transform the condition of Catholicism in Britain and equip it to embark on the necessary tasks of engaging the faithless and missioning to the unfaithful.
264 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
US Catholic colleges have little impact on faith A survey of Catholic college students published by The Cardinal Newman Societys (CNS) Center for the Study of Catholic Higher Education has found that most students on US Catholic campuses reject key Catholic moral and doctrinal teachings.
265 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Elliott is a Melbourne auxiliary bishop and Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education.
266 - Nov 2008 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tim Cannon
Sections three four and five proceed into more traditionally philosophical territory exploring in turn faith and reason ethics the Church and society and beauty art and education.
267 - Nov 2008 - Letters: From India, Fr S. John Joseph
All of them come from the neighbouring hamlets and in general are really poor and in need of our support for their continued education for example writing materials like pens pencils erasers sharpeners exercise and note books medals rosaries holy pictures etc.
268 - Nov 2008 - What happened then: what matters now - Swithun Wells, martyr of England, Rosemary Lucadou-Wells
He used the fruits of his own education to open a school in Monkton Farleigh Wiltshire and teach.
269 - Nov 2008 - History: Cardinal Stafford on Humanae Vitae: how dissenters tore the Church apart, Cardinal Francis Stafford
Family and education had given me a Christian understanding of sex.
270 - Nov 2008 - Human rights: Religious persecution in China, India, Vietnam, Fr John Flynn LC
The report commented that local authorities arrested numerous Christians under state-level anti- conversion laws for allegedly engaging in conversions by force allurement or fraud Hindu nationalist organisations frequently alleged that Christian missionaries lured low-caste Hindus with offers of free education and health care equating such actions with forced conversions.
271 - Oct 2008 - Reflecton: Benedict XVI: the natural family, cornerstone of world peace, Pope Benedict XVI
This point merits special reflection: everything that serves to weaken the family based on the marriage of a man and a woman everything that directly or indirectly stands in the way of its openness to the responsible acceptance of new life everything that obstructs its right to be primarily responsible for the education of its children constitutes an objective obstacle on the road to peace.
272 - Oct 2008 - Letters: New schools in Wagga Wagga, Kevin McInerny
The August 2008 edition of AD2000 included on page 14 details of a new school or schools being developed within the Diocese of Wagga Wagga with the aim of establishing a single sex education for boys and girls.
273 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe
Eugenio Pacelli had an unshakeable faith supported by the witness of his parents and was afforded a broad classical education enabling him to be fluent in Italian English French and German.
274 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Donohue also charges some Catholic agencies with failing to uphold the fullness of the Churchs teaching in their collaboration with secular agencies adding that staffers at Catholic agencies dedicated to education or development are in a position to witness to the truth of the Churchs teaching.
275 - Oct 2008 - Editorial: Sesquicentenary of Our Lady of Lourdes, Peter Westmore
Fourteen-year-old Bernadette whose sickly disposition and poverty-stricken circumstances had left her with little education was collecting firewood along the banks of the River Gave when she saw a beautiful young lady standing in prayer in a grotto in the rocks.
276 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The commercial is produced by Virtue Media which describes itself as an organisation dedicated to producing and airing powerful and life-saving television radio commercials and educational films.
277 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
World Youth Day 2008 was a packed program of worship education youth events and endless opportunities to make friends in faith from around the world.
278 - Aug 2008 - Books: QUESTION TIME by Fr John Flader, Fr Anthony Robbie
QUESTION TIME by Fr John Flader (Foreword by Cardinal George Pell) (Catholic Adult Education Centre 2008 310pp $29.
279 - Aug 2008 - Education: Progress continues with the new Wagga Wagga independent schools, Barbara Chigwidden
Besides this the schools hope to meet the demand for a high achieving single-sex education.
280 - Aug 2008 - The tragic dilemmas of China's one-child policy, Babette Francis
The Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee in Sichuan province states that families whose only child has been killed in the earthquake can obtain a certificate to have another without the heavy fines and deprivation of education and benefits associated with a second child.
281 - Aug 2008 - Benedict XVI reaffirms Humanae Vitae on its 40th anniversary, Pope Benedict XVI
The urgent need for education to which I often refer primarily concerns the theme of life.
282 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Effectiveness of abstinence education Two new studies presented at the National Press Club in Washington DC in April provide encouraging findings about abstinence education.
283 - Jun 2008 - Education: Pope: Catholic education must uphold Church teachings, Pope Benedict XVI
Education is integral to the mission of the Church to proclaim the Good News.
284 - May 2008 - Ballarat: Children's Spirituality Conference at ACU: not to be confused with religion!, Michael Gilchrist
Dr Marian de Souza a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the Australian Catholic University Ballarat where she helps shape the religious ideas of future teachers in Catholic schools says that spirituality should not be confused with religion.
285 - Apr 2008 - Adult education: Sydney's Centre for Thomistic Studies, Donald G. Boland
Everyone today is acutely aware of the concerted secular push at all levels of popular and academic education to set in opposition both faith and reason and religion and science.
286 - Apr 2008 - Apostolic journey: Pope's Washington visit will address key issues, Peter Westmore
Colleges and universities After meeting the American President Benedict will meet the American Catholic Bishops in Washington then speak to the heads of the more than 200 Catholic colleges and universities in the United States and superintendents from the 195 Catholic dioceses who have been invited to an address by the Pope on the importance of Catholic education.
287 - Apr 2008 - WYDSYD08: World Youth Day Sydney: look for the wider trend, Joanna Bogle
But todays young Catholics in the Western world each with his or her own reason for being present at church - a staunchly Catholic family a good local priest involvement in or around one of the New Movements a lingering tradition despite semi-practising parents or a muddled education at nominally Catholic school - are now open to the idea of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament a sense of Catholic identity Latin chant on a summer evening.
288 - Apr 2008 - Progress report: AD2000's worldwide outreach via the Internet, Francis Young
The most viewed pages usually include Church history in the world and Australia philosophers such as Augustine Aquinas and Jacques Maritain saints and inspirational churchmen and women Catholic demographics Catholic education Liturgy Church architecture and a large spread of homilies and book reviews.
289 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Parliamentary committee to investigate A report in the The Independent (23 February 2008) by Education Editor Richard Garner reveals that a House of Commons Select Committee is to investigate evidence that the Catholic Church is pursuing a more fundamentalist approach towards religion in its schools.
290 - Apr 2008 - Editorial: AD2000 reaches the twenty year mark, Michael Gilchrist
While younger Catholics are less inclined to read their reliance on the Internet provides a promising window of opportunity for further education in the Faith.
291 - Mar 2008 - DVD: NO TURNING BACK: Confessions of a Catholic priest, by Fr D. Calloway, Fr Martin Durham
Parents with teenagers clergy adult education providers secondary school principals - you could do no better than use this wonderful challenging DVD.
292 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell
The Melbourne-Sydney religious education text books are being taken up in more and more Australian dioceses and the number of priestly seminarians has risen in Perth Melbourne and Sydney.
293 - Feb 2008 - The need for solitude and reflection amid today's cacophony, Andrew Kania
Johann Christoph Fredrich von Schiller (1759-1805) discusses in his The Aesthetic Education of Man that the key to good living is the ability to truly live in the moment: When we strike a note on an instrument only this single note of all that it is capable of emitting is actually realised; when man is sensible of the present the whole infinitude of his possible determinations is confined to this single mode of his being (p.
294 - Feb 2008 - How to reform Catholic education: get the world view right, Chris Hilder
In Recovering a Catholic Philosophy of Elementary Education Curtis L.
295 - Feb 2008 - Paganism: 'New Age' activities continue in Brisbane Archdiocese, Tim Pemble-Smith
through education earth- sensitive spirituality through promoting sustainability and bio- diversity and through justice for the earth.
296 - Feb 2008 - Technical school: Salesians continue to help post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Michael Lynch SDB
The Don Bosco schools were he said the best providers of technical education in Sri Lanka.
297 - Feb 2008 - Editorial: Can Catholic schools recover their 'salt', Michael Gilchrist
An important milestone in this regard was the launching a decade ago of new RE texts with a stronger focus on doctrinal content under the direction of Archbishop Pell in Melbourne with Msgr (now Bishop) Peter Elliott playing a key role in this project as Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education.
298 - Dec 2007 - Britain: British Catholicism: the salt has lost its flavour, John Haldane
Another is the expansion of higher education which saw humanities and social science degrees being awarded to ever- larger numbers of people on the basis of intellectually diluted courses in social cultural religious educational and media studies.
299 - Dec 2007 - Catechetics: Religious education in Catholic schools: the role of parish priests, Michael Gilchrist
More than any other single factor the presence of strong orthodox priests is crucial to the calibre of religious education in Australias Catholic schools.
300 - Dec 2007 - Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences, Br Barry Coldrey
When he spoke the Congregation Leader mentioned politely some other levels of work for Brothers religious education in the secondary schools - in an understated way so as not to offend.
301 - Nov 2007 - Ora et labora: How monastic hospitality can strengthen one's faith, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
Moreover even committed Catholics - especially young adults in detox from the ravages of the anti- religious aggro of long years in the nominally Catholic education system - can have an exhilarating experience observing the firm commit- ment of the monks or nuns and the daily round of prayer.
302 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
The head of the Melbourne Catholic Education Office Stephen Elder has urged all 328 of the archdioceses schools to sever their connections with Amnesty.
303 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Catholic education, June See
Congratulations to Eamonn Keane for his excellent article Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education (September AD2000).
304 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
There should also be a system of appraisal every six years for priests bishops and even popes with procedures set in place to allow for wider participation by the Catholic population: It would be possible today to know the mind of all the members of the church by means of a process of preparation and education that ended in a vote taken at the Masses on a given Sunday (p.
305 - Oct 2007 - Catholic Life: Sydney's Pastoral Plan ready for implementation in 2008, Michael Gilchrist
To this end the Archdiocesan Marriage and Family Office in consultation with the Catholic Education Office is to develop a program of marriage preparation for senior secondary students and review all marriage preparation programs to ensure their clarity of Church teaching by December 2008.
306 - Sep 2007 - Catholic education must be 'unashamedly Catholic', Bishop Robert Finn
The Declaration on Christian Education Gravissimum Educationis from the Second Vatican Council affirms the priority of this call to parents who are the first teachers of their children (No.
307 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
The 6 June 2007 edition of CathNews carried an article authored by Dr Graham English analysing Catholic education in Australia past and present.
308 - Sep 2007 - A successful quest for vocations in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
However among those dozens of young men are many of the priests and church leaders of the future ardent young Catholics in many ways refugees survivors or a faithful remnant of twelve years of secularised education in the nominally Catholic education system.
309 - Sep 2007 - Pastoral Letter: NSW and ACT Bishops call for a shake-up in Catholic education, Michael Gilchrist
The calibre of school staffs is particularly important: No-one doubts that the faith and practice of the leaders and staff in Catholic schools significantly affect the students and the character of the education offered.
310 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Fixing the schools, G. Brian Bibby
My childrens generation who went to Catholic schools did not receive a Catholic education.
311 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Education campaign, Henry Erftemeyer
A strong campaign or appeal is needed to convince the bishops and the parents that a return to a true Catholic education at primary secondary and tertiary levels is necessary for the continuation of the Catholic Church in Australia.
312 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Combating AIDS, Franklin J. Wood
The most successful developing country tackling AIDS is Uganda thanks to widespread education in the virtue of abstinence.
313 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Study leave, Eamonn Keane
A postscript to a report in the March AD2000 on an education conference in the Sandhurst Diocese has come in the shape of a letter to priests of the diocese dated 9 May 2007 in which the Deputy Director of Religious Education and Faith Formation states that she will be on study leave attending a course on Pastoral Ministry at Boston College in July/August.
314 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
The event was organised by the Catholic Education Office which invited Catholic schools in the Melbourne Archdiocese to take part.
315 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
Another said We love the home-school lifestyle: the wonderful curriculum the family togetherness the freedom the ability to have a truly Catholic education for our children.
316 - Aug 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Bishop Malone wants no oath of fidelity The Herald newspaper (5 June) reported that Bishop Michael Malone of the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese has rejected any introduction of the oath of fidelity for principals assistant principals and religious education co- ordinators in Catholic schools in his diocese as was proposed in Cardinal George Pells draft Pastoral Plan for the Archdiocese of Sydney.
317 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
While the corrosive message of the secular society and the uncertain - lowest common denominator - focus of much Catholic education have wrought havoc with practice of the faith among young Catholics this numbing malaise was absent from the Abbey Function Centre Gold Creek on the edge of Canberra on the weekend of 6-8 July 2007.
318 - Aug 2007 - Editorial: Census 2006: 'No religion' up, Christians down
And most of these are graduates of the Catholic education system.
319 - Jul 2007 - Events: Canberra 6-8 July - Australian Catholic Students' Association 2007 Conference, Patrick Giam
They will cover topics such as evangelisation and the media theology of the body liberal education liturgy and the culture of life and death.
320 - Jul 2007 - Education: New Wagga Wagga schools take their 'leap of faith', Bill Andrews
However our initial year has seen some classes become co- educational while others remain separate in their respective boys and girls colleges.
321 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Carhart partial-birth abortion decision and while the abortion issue is centre stage in the presidential campaign to implement a comprehensive national education campaign about Roe.
322 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
There are people who just attended ETS meetings and did their own education and teaching in evangelical schools.
323 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
education liturgy priesthood and religious life healthcare youth ministry and social justice.
324 - Jun 2007 - Books: EDITH STEIN, WOMAN OF PRAYER: Her Life and Ideals, by Joanne Mosley, Tim Cannon
Ediths academic achievements in the field of philosophy as well as her many years experience as a teacher are also shown to have had a significant impact on the large body of work which she produced throughout her lifetime including theses on the nature of education biographies of several Carmelite nuns reflections on the works of saints including St John of the Cross as well as many works of literature including poetry and several plays.
325 - Jun 2007 - Books: IN THE LIGHT OF CHRIST: Writings in the Western Tradition, by Lucy Beckett, Francis Phillips
A fascinating late chapter examines 20th century writers from a cultured but entirely secular background and education who struggled to discover what lay behind their quest for an ultimate meaning behind words; these include the writer and mystic Simone Weil the critic George Steiner and the novelist Saul Bellow.
326 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: Bill Daly RIP: fearless defender of Catholic orthodoxy in Australia, Fr James Tierney
At the internal meeting of the delegates from the Archdiocese of Sydney (about 35 which was half the Conference) Bill moved a motion which I seconded that catechesis in the Archdiocese be based on the Gospels Vatican II the 1971 Vatican General Catechetical Directory and The Renewal of the Education of Faith (an Australian presentation).
327 - Jun 2007 - New Zealand Catholic college's intellectually challenging RE program, Bernard Moran
St Peters College is a member of the Dialogue Australasia Network which encourages an academic approach to religious education.
328 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Msgr Elliott is the Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne and has been recently appointed an auxiliary bishop.
329 - Jun 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Hickeys RE teaching directive In April Archbishop Barry Hickey announced new requirements for the teaching of religious education in the Archdiocese of Perth.
330 - May 2007 - Reflection: Teaching children about the Eucharist, Audrey English
Audrey English is a former school teacher who works at the Holy Family Education Centre and the Centre for Thomistic Studies in Sydney.
331 - May 2007 - Letters: Teachers' conference, Ron Munro
I refer to a local TV news report of protesters at the Sandhurst Dioceses Catholic Education Conference at Shepparton on 15 March 2007.
332 - May 2007 - The importance of 'holy things' for one's Christian faith, Andrew Kania
Irony Forty-five years later in a strange twist of irony this mans grand-daughter would be sitting in a religious education classroom at a Catholic school in Western Australia.
333 - May 2007 - Catechesis: Sydney RCIA conference in June on forming new adult Catholics, Joanne Zwaans
ACM is an organisation of Catholic clergy and lay people committed to providing a communications resource and education network for diocesan and parish personnel involved in RCIA.
334 - May 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Earlier Polands Minister of Education together with the Polish League of Families proposed a law protecting school children from aggressive and obscene homosexual propaganda presenting the gay lifestyle as normal and acceptable.
335 - May 2007 - Education: How to fix Australia's Catholic schools and colleges, Br Barry Coldrey
At the outset then it would help if Church leaders faced squarely the fact that there is a problem namely that the vast expensive Catholic education system constructed out of the blood sweat and raffles of so many Catholics in times past is or appears to be a failure in critical areas.
336 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Church leadership, P.W. English
This has contributed to the mass exodus of graduates of the Catholic education system - a situation all Australian bishops need to address.
337 - Apr 2007 - Book Launch: B.A. Santamaria and Australian Catholicism: Cardinal Pell's tribute, Cardinal George Pell
In 1966 Bob told Senator Vince Gair After all throughout 1963 I was engaged personally in dealing with them on the education question over several meetings.
338 - Mar 2007 - Books: The Glory of These Forty Days, by Fr James Tolhurst, Michael Gilchrist
Indeed the two books would make excellent companions for use in upper secondary or adult education classes as well as with RCIA groups.
339 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Reform needed, T. Kalotas
The abysmal state of religious education in Catholic secondary schools is no longer a question for serious debate.
340 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
Relativism has completely influenced education for a number of decades and has somehow penetrated into religion.
341 - Mar 2007 - The changing panorama of Victoria's historic 'Rupertswood', Michael Moore
The Salesians of Don Bosco are an order of priests and brothers dedicated to the care and education of young people.
342 - Mar 2007 - Survey of Catholic teachers
The survey is titled Profile of Mass-attending teachers in Catholic schools: A Report to Directors of Catholic Education based on the 2001 National Church Life Survey.
343 - Mar 2007 - 'Professional', a lá carte Catholicism and its papier màché schools, Andrew T. Kania
Prior to this appointment Dr Kania was a lecturer for the School of Religious Education at the University of Notre Dame Australia as well as for the Catholic Institute of Western Australia at Edith Cowan and Curtin Universities.
344 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
The Catholic Adult Education Centre an agency of the Archdiocese of Sydney continues to provide in-depth education in the faith to Catholics and non-Catholics all over the country.
345 - Mar 2007 - Sandhurst: Goddess worship at Victorian education conference?, Michael Gilchrist
The Diocese of Sandhurst based in Bendigo Victoria had a golden opportunity in this regard when it organised a massive education conference involving all primary and secondary school teachers.
346 - Mar 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Benedict XVI: children and the media Benedict XVIs message for the 41st World Day of Social Communications this year due to be celebrated on 20 May on the theme Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education was made public on 24 January.
347 - Mar 2007 - WYDSYD08: Salesian provincial urges parishes to sponsor Timorese to World Youth Day 2008, Peter Westmore
Much improved education and health systems were established.
348 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
Sheens parents had little education and ran the local hardware store but they were determined their children should have a solid education.
349 - Feb 2007 - Why we need holy days of obligation, Joanna Bogle
Religious education in Catholic schools may be poor - indeed it is often deplorable - and abolishing Holy Days removes one good opportunity for a priest to light some small sparks in receptive young minds.
350 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
Some just got bad or poor education because they were not given the unadulterated truth.
351 - Feb 2007 - Fr John Speekman: Vatican orders reinstatement of wrongly removed Sale Diocese parish priest, Michael Gilchrist
Contract broken The crisis was originally sparked by the Morwell parish school Principal with the support of members of the Sale Catholic Education Office.
352 - Feb 2007 - Education: Australia's Catholic school systems: the case for radical surgery, Michael Gilchrist
Today most of the Churchs educational facilities have become unproductive dead weights as far as transmitting the faith effectively is concerned with accountability virtually non-existent.
353 - Dec 2006 - Shrines: Marian Valley: Queensland's centre of pilgrimage, Peter Westmore
Through the extraordinary energy of the Pauline Fathers and the Shrines devoted band of volunteers it has been transformed from a single house into a magnificent religious complex consisting of the original homestead (now a residential block) Black Madonna Chapel a large roofed area for open air Masses and Benedictions a dozen Madonna Shrines life-size Stations of the Cross a retreat centre with Adoration Chapel education centre gift shop and associated buildings.
354 - Dec 2006 - Modest dress: Suitable attire for Mass: the moral dimension, Bishop John W. Yanta
Those in charge of education can reasonably be expected to give young people instruction respectful of the truth the qualities of the heart and the moral and spiritual dignity of man (CCC 2526).
355 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd began when the late Maria Montessori in response to the call of Pius X in 1909 for the education of the faithful to enable them to participate more fully in the liturgy sought to find a way to make the liturgy accessible to children so that they might be admitted to the most intimate and sublime act of religious life - communion with Christ (The Child in the Church M.
356 - Dec 2006 - Sydney RCIA conference for 2007 on authentic formation of new Catholics, Paula Flynn
The ACM was founded in 1998 to foster the full implementation of the Order of Christian Initiation by providing a communications resources and education network for diocesan and parish personnel involved in the work of the catechumenate (ACM Mission Statement).
357 - Nov 2006 - Reflection: Catholic schools must proclaim the total love of Christ, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
This authentic Christian education initiated by parents in the home and carried out faithfully at schools has to be learned in religion class in maths on the sports field and presented with enthusiasm by committed teachers principals and priests.
358 - Nov 2006 - Events: Second Annual Victorian Catholic Students Association Conference 25-26 Nov 2006
25-26 November 2006 at the Thomas Carr Centre Well-known speakers will cover issues relevant to Catholic Students at school and university such as Making Study Holy Responding to the Protestant Christian Unions on Campus The Purpose of a Catholic Education Apologetics for Catholic Students and much more.
359 - Nov 2006 - Poetry: Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954 to 2005, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
A comprehensive collection of Bruce Dawes best poems SOMETIMES GLADNESS: Collected Poems 1954 to 2005 (6th edition) (Pearson Education Australia 2006 337pp $29.
360 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Generation 'Y', Kevin Cains
Bishop Pat Power Chairman of the Bishops Education Committee was advertised in parish notices in Canberra as a speaker with Senator Lyn Allison Senate Leader of the neo- pagan Democrats at a recent remembrance ceremony held by the group Family amp; Friends for Drug Law Reform.
361 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Education needed, Judy O'Reilly
Perhaps what is needed is education on the importance of the sacrament and what better place to start than from the pulpit?
362 - Nov 2006 - Books: Is the Catholic Church in Australia 'lost'?, Michael Gilchrist
It can mean spiritually impoverished as most of the graduates of the Catholic education system have become since the 1970s.
363 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
rsquo; The Pope identified relativism as lsquo;a particularly insidious obstacle to education today.
364 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
This article is a part of Cardinal George Pells address at the National Catholic Education Conference in Sydney on 28 September 2006.
365 - Oct 2006 - Book Launch: Lost! Australian Catholics Today, by Michael Gilchrist
The final chapter suggests strategies for arresting the decline including radical reforms to the Catholic education system and review of the selection process of bishops.
366 - Oct 2006 - University: Campion College: a pioneer in Australian higher education, Stephen McInerny
relates to an even more fundamental question: What is the end of education?
367 - Oct 2006 - Educating young Catholics: a bold initiative in Wagga Wagga, Michael Gilchrist
A new independent pair of high schools offering education in the Catholic faith is to commence at the start of 2007.
368 - Oct 2006 - News: The Church Around The World
The Ugandan pastor is known as the instigator of the successful Ugandan educational campaign against AIDS called the ABC program which promotes abstinence and marital fidelity as the first two means of protection against the killer virus.
369 - Oct 2006 - Editorial: The way ahead for the education of Catholics, Michael Gilchrist
As numerous surveys have shown over recent decades the young people leaving Australias Catholic educational institutions have been seriously deficient in the belief and practice of the Faith.
370 - Sep 2006 - Books: William Bernard Ullathorne: A Different Kind of Monk, by Judith Champ, Michael Gilchrist
During the 1860s when the state - as in the Australian Colonies - sought to set up unified secular education systems Ullathorne was in the forefront of upholding the independence of Catholic schools.
371 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Thomas Groome (letter), C. Hungerford-Morgan
One has to wonder what the ultimate aim of our Tasmanian CEO is in regard to religious education.
372 - Sep 2006 - Family in Society: Asian and Australian families face similar challenges, Leslie Sammut
Parental education and training in Gospel values and the social teachings of the Church are essential so that parents will be armed with the tools to be a strong steadying influence in the upbringing of their children before they enter the larger society.
373 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
John Morrissey who has taught history English and religious education at Melbourne Catholic Independent and State secondary schools provides an outline of the volatile post-Reformation period in Europe and the important role played by the newly formed Jesuit order.
374 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
Here he reflects on the education he received at Chavagnes and the kind of counter-cultural education that is needed at Catholic schools today in secular cultures.
375 - Sep 2006 - Conscience: AD2000 interviews Cardinal Pell, Cardinal George Pell
An opinion piece by former Director of the Melbourne Catholic Education Office Fr Frank Martin was published in the large circulation Sunday Herald Sun on 18 June 2006.
376 - Sep 2006 - Editorial: 2006 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
Christianity as a system of belief which underpins social values is facing an uphill battle against rampant secularism which controls the commanding heights in the media the education system and the economy.
377 - Aug 2006 - Letters: What Is The Eucharist?, Rosanna Sherman
However it was a paper given to us on the Eucharist used in an adult education program in 1997 that really spelt out the new theology for us.
378 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
Meanwhile one of my other daughters is receiving part of her education in a Catholic school from a teacher who is living in an openly gay relationship having recently left his wife.
379 - Aug 2006 - Does Wollongong's Catholic Education Office endorse dissent?, AD2000 Report
Catholic education offices in some dioceses continue to allow public dissenters access to church facilities to address Catholic audiences.
380 - Aug 2006 - Teen STAR: Sex education for young adults: a pro-life approach, Jacinta Cummins
After decades of so-called sexual liberation she finds teenagers who have attended the usual pro-contraception sex education classes provided by schools are unaware of the full potential and consequences of their sexuality and its inherent fertility.
381 - Aug 2006 - Canberra-Goulburn: Archbishop Coleridge: Benedict's first Australian appointment, Anh Nguyen
He was also appointed the Episcopal Vicar of Education and over the past few years has given support to the work of Catholic university students.
382 - Aug 2006 - Editorial: Falling Mass attendances and liturgical reform, Michael Gilchrist
The causes of such a decline - which has occurred in most Western countries over the same period - no doubt include the heavy inroads of secularism and relativism weakened family life and deficient religious education programs in Catholic schools since the 1970s.
383 - Jul 2006 - Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools, Bishop Robert Finn
The essential goal of Catholic education is to lead students to Christ.
384 - Jul 2006 - Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
This is where Theology of the Body for Beginners by Christopher West plays such an integral part in the re-education of the many young people conditioned to accept youre going to do it anyway so use protection.
385 - Jul 2006 - Re-mythologising: Narnia - faith and fiction: The parallel world of C.S.Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Elliott is the Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education in the Melbourne Archdiocese.
386 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
Education Commenting on his educational priorities Bishop Finn said that we have to understand where the power of the laity is.
387 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Referring to the importance of Catholic education the Pope called on the bishops to ensure that the intrinsic relationship between the Churchs Magisterium individuals faith and testimony in public life is preserved and promoted.
388 - Jul 2006 - Salesian Missions: Church protects the victims of Timor violence, Br Michael Lynch
The Church especially through the religious orders plays a vital role in helping provide health and education for the people and in this way helps build the nation.
389 - Jul 2006 - Editorial: Strong Church leadership: new approach, Michael Gilchrist
Priestly and religious vocations have been made a top priority along with orthodox teaching in Catholic schools and educational institutions.
390 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Priestly celibacy, Tim Coyle
For instance how is a young priest going to provide for his family and childrens education?
391 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Thank you from India, Fr. A. Joseph
The diocese is very backward in both education and in its general economic condition so the bishop has to focus on these areas.
392 - Jun 2006 - Respect: New text book series vilifies the Catholic Church, Kevin Donnelly
The most unsettling thing about the Jacaranda books treatment of Christianity is that it illustrates once again how left-wing thought police have succeeded in their long march through the education system.
393 - Jun 2006 - Is dialogue possible between Christians and Muslims?, Cardinal George Pell
But religious belief in Pakistan is being radicalised because organisations very different from Indonesias Nahdatul Ulama have stepped in to fill the void in education created by years of neglect by military rulers.
394 - Jun 2006 - Education: Why do CEOs use Groome's RE method?, AD2000 Report
In February 2004 the Director of the Diocese of Sale Catholic Education Office published a document (Bulletin No 4) reporting on the dioceses involvement in an Inter-Diocesan Religious Education Project with the Archdiocese of Hobart and the dioceses of Ballarat and Sandhurst.
395 - May 2006 - Letters: Actions and attitudes, S. Chaston
Children especially get most of their primary education including their religious education not directly from texts but from the actions and attitudes of their parents and teachers.
396 - May 2006 - Foreign priests - a tale of two Brisbane parishes, Bob Osmak
This idea was noted on the board as Education - chaplaincy.
397 - May 2006 - Vocations: Can religious life be rebuilt in Australia?, Sr Mary Augustine OP
One was the realisation that there is by this stage in its evolution no room in the Australian education system for religious who wish to live up to their vocation to be counter cultural.
398 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
Now I find from talking to many Sunday school teachers that they ignore the Catechism of the Catholic Church and teach almost exclusively about capital punishment abortion the environment and sex education.
399 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Religious education, Saskia Ebejer
It confirmed for me the fears I have long held regarding the state of religious education in our Catholic schools.
400 - Apr 2006 - Has just punishment had its day?, Fr Matthew Kirby
There has been a move in education away from using such terms as good and evil right and wrong discipline and punishment and towards terms like appropriate and inappropriate classroom management and behavioural modification.
401 - Apr 2006 - The Domestic Church: The Christian Family Movement: re-evangelising through families, Leslie Sammut
Improving society through actions of love service education and example by cultivation of a missionary spirit in member couples who then offer their services to other families.
402 - Apr 2006 - Creation: Intelligent Design and the war against God, Stephen Hitchings
Supreme Court ruling The judges decision was based on a 1987 Supreme Court ruling: Families entrust public schools with the education of their children but condition their trust on the understanding that the classroom will not purposely be used to advance religious views that may conflict with the private beliefs of the student and his or her family.
403 - Apr 2006 - Salesian Missions: Cardinal Pell visits East Timor, Michael Lynch SDB
As part of my work with Salesian Missions I have been undertaking field visits to the country a couple of times a year since 2000 and Br Marcal was in Australia at that time working on his Masters degree in Educational Leadership at Australian Catholic University.
404 - Apr 2006 - Conscience: Dissenters' appeal to Rome 'a real hoot' says Cardinal Pell, Michael Gilchrist
Others included Fr Michael Elligate Chaplain University of Melbourne Fr Frank Martin a former Director of the Melbourne Catholic Education Office and Fr Peter Murnane of the Dominican Order.
405 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Elitism, Jeff Harvie
We should have compassion for those who are earnestly trying to be close to God but have not had the education that existed pre-Vatican II (or through good priests post-Vatican II).
406 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Canadian Lectionary, Matt Walton
In politics law education and employment the changing of words tenses or sequences is intended to alter concepts so as to advantage or disadvantage and to chart direction.
407 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Fortified School, Chris Hilder
The days of our schools having access to an abundant supply of religious teachers has passed but I suggest that all religious orders give consideration to having present in schools for religious education those of their order who are very advanced in the way of the Lord.
408 - Mar 2006 - Vocations: Dominican Sisters: religious vocations continue to rise in Nashville, Tracey Rowland
The Congregation therefore has a strong interest both in education and in a life of communal prayer.
409 - Mar 2006 - Mass: How can differences over the Liturgy be resolved?, Fr John O'Neill
Surely it is not unreasonable for people to be able to take part without having to use a translation or without the necessity of education in a language foreign to them in the worship of their God in their Churchs Liturgy.
410 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
USCCB Publishing will launch the compendium in English and Spanish at the 2006 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.
411 - Feb 2006 - Books: CATHOLIC FAMILY CATECHISM: Disciples' Edition and Apostles' Edition, Fr Tierney, Michael Gilchrist
At a time when religion teaching in Catholic schools was being stripped of much of its distinctively Catholic content courtesy of fashionable educational theories (as still occurs in many Australian dioceses even today) Father Tierney has stuck to his guns producing editions of sound compact reader-friendly catechisms.
412 - Feb 2006 - The Church of England: beyond satire?, Rev Peter Mullen
The result for Christian education particularly of the young was catastrophic.
413 - Feb 2006 - New Age paganism's creeping influence within the Church, Wanda Skowronska
It does this through education earth-sensitive spirituality promotion of biodiversity and sustainable living and action for justice for Earth.
414 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
What is for instance the real reason for the Catholic Churchs engagement in school education?
415 - Feb 2006 - Catechesis: Latest research on Catholic school leavers, Michael Gilchrist
His research project titled A Study of 1st and 2nd Year Catholic University Students Perceptions of their Senior Religious Education Classes in Catholic Schools in Western Australia 2004 is available from Edith Cowan University Perth Western Australia.
416 - Feb 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Instruction on seminarians and homosexuality The long-awaited Instruction from the Congregation of Catholic Education on the admittance of homosexuals into Catholic seminaries was released in late November 2005.
417 - Feb 2006 - Editorial: Catholic schools: how much accountability?, Michael Gilchrist
Merely replicating what is achieved by high quality non-Catholic private schools and State schools hardly justifies the continued existence of large separate and expensive Catholic systems of education.
418 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
West paraphrases from Canon Law and Vatican II: Marriage is the intimate exclusive indissoluble communion of life and love entered by man and woman at the design of the Creator for the purposes of their own good and the procreation and education of children; this covenant between baptised persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.
419 - Dec 2005 - PRAYER: Melbourne initiative: a spiritual approach can defeat drug addiction, Anh Nguyen
Those living in the community are also encouraged to find work and undergo some form of education through TAFE university or distance learning.
420 - Dec 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Likely Papal policy on Catholic identity The Church under the papacy of Benedict XVI will likely refuse to support and maintain ties with institutions that have weakened or lost their Catholic identity according to Archbishop Michael Miller Secretary of the Vaticans Congregation for Catholic Education.
421 - Nov 2005 - Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity, John Young
How can religious education be improved including homilies?
422 - Nov 2005 - Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS, Anh Nguyen
She believes John Paul IIs Theology of the Body forms a basis on which a sound sex education can be built.
423 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The new document - which was prepared by the Congregation for Catholic Education in response to a request made by the late Pope John Paul II in 1994 - will be published soon.
424 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
Classroom intrusion Recently some newspapers have given considerable coverage to demonstrating how relativisms intrusion into the classroom as post-modernism or critical literacy affect education at both secondary and university level.
425 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Watered-down faith, Paula Gartland
It was run by nuns and Catholic Education people and consisted of those educational sort of parlour games beloved of public servants and teachers with a whiteboard cardboard signs and handouts.
426 - Oct 2005 - Conference: C.S. Lewis: defender of objective truth, Adam Glyn Cooper
In The Abolition of Man he begins by challenging the authors of a recent book on literature and education.
427 - Oct 2005 - Dies Domini: Armidale Diocese promotes Sunday observance, Bishop Luc Matthys
In order to make Sunday central again to our religious practices I have asked the Religious Education personnel of both the Catholic Schools Office and the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine to prepare a four-week course for use in Catholic schools Religious Education lessons and in Special Religious Education classes in State schools across the diocese.
428 - Oct 2005 - Youth: The lasting impact of World Youth Day, Sannon Donahoo
In my experience World Youth Day is special in providing opportunities for conversion and healing for education and discernment.
429 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Equally vast is the educational work carried out in Catholic schools and other Catholic institutions and organisations on behalf of young people.
430 - Oct 2005 - Benedict XVI speaks out on the crisis of faith in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Your meetings with some of the Congregations of the Roman Curia have focused on questions of doctrine and morality the liturgy the role of the Bishop evangelisation and mission the priesthood religious life and Catholic education.
431 - Oct 2005 - Editorial: Health of Church and health of family connect, Michael Gilchrist
education health and law and order.
432 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
Most recently he was invited to Chavagnes International College in France where he was the Religious Education Co-ordinator.
433 - Sep 2005 - Interview: Benedict XVI and the power of the Eucharist, Fr John Corapi
I believe that the proper education and holiness of priests is of paramount importance to the new Holy Father.
434 - Sep 2005 - Can reverence at Mass make a comeback?, Michael Ryan
Any improvement will have to start with the education of our children from their earliest days - quite a task for committed Catholic parents and teachers.
435 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
According to an official transcript of the interview session Bush added: Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought .
436 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
Fancy new and unnecessarily complicated religious education programs in the schools left students with at very best vague ideas about the Catholic Faith and its priesthood.
437 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
He has written an intelligent yet widely accessible guide to the Mass which he says will be very popular with parish study groups adult education courses and inquiring individuals.
438 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Government review of RE in State Schools (letter), Maureen Federico
Not long ago I received a letter from the Council for Christian Education in Schools (CCES) that the Victorian Government has announced plans to review the Education Act 1958 which makes provision for Christian Religious Education (CRE) in State schools and feel seriously concerned that any new legislation may preclude this provision.
439 - Aug 2005 - International poll underlines growing secularist challenge, Michael Gilchrist
Examining in more detail the Australian figures for each poll question in relation to categories such as male/female age level education income occupation and religious affiliation a few contrasts become evident.
440 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
In a speech at the Catholic University of Argentina on the challenges that todays culture poses for education the cardinal emphasised that the importance of the Catholic university does not boil down to enabling its graduates to enter the workforce but rather it should be a place for seeking out the truth in communion between teachers and students and for the formation and growth of individuals.
441 - Jul 2005 - Books: Letters To a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, David Birch
But are these uncompromising propositions we might ask at the core of current Catholic education and therefore second nature to young Catholics around the world today?
442 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Need help with home education?
Readers of AD2000 may be interested in what Literary Services amp; Home Education Support has to offer in the way of proof-reading editing writing typing and a correction service for home-educated students This can involve casual or regular assignments and big jobs or small jobs - with agreeable rates.
443 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Courageous example, Raymond De Souza
In this way at least parents would no longer be deceived in continuing to pay for a Catholic education for their children - while getting none.
444 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
Since you are a qualified teacher I could recommend you for a job which will suit you in Catholic education.
445 - Jul 2005 - Evangelisation: Why many Catholics join fundamentalist sects, Frank Mobbs
So also were catechetics and religious education.
446 - Jul 2005 - Rockhampton: Year of the Eucharist: a time for clear thinking, AD2000 REPORT
In the Rockhampton Diocese a four week series (concluding on 5 July 2005) organised by Adult Faith Education and Formation and titled Rediscovering the Eucharist exhorts participants to Be Eucharist for Others.
447 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
In this regard bishops should provide continuing education retreats and days of recollection.
448 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride
I refer to an interesting article (May AD2000) by Shannon Donahoo Religious Education: Catholic youth have their say .
449 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Outstanding education at Chavagnes College, Br John Moylan CFC, MA, MEd
As a very recent former guest teacher at Chavagnes International College for over two years I endorse Geoff Storeys letter (May AD2000) concerning the value of the outstanding even possibly unique Catholic education the college provides.
450 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson commented: The plan outlined is a good first step to successfully reduce the rate of abortion by offering alternatives that promote family promote adoption and provide education and support for new mothers.
451 - May 2005 - Letters: Private revelations, Anne Boyce
One would wish to understand it better and fortunately a course on it is presently available at the Catholic Adult Education Centre Lidcombe Sydney.
452 - May 2005 - Letters: Catholic education, Geoff Storey
It sounds as though they are setting the standard as to what Catholic education should be aspiring towards including encouraging an appreciation of the beauty of the Latin language and liturgy.
453 - May 2005 - Letters: Theology at ACU, Henk Verhoeven
I was then astonished to learn that the litany of unorthodox opinions had been recorded by a student doing a series of lectures that formed part of a program leading to a Diploma of Religious Education at a Sydney campus of Australian Catholic University.
454 - May 2005 - Year of Eucharist: Religious education: Catholic youth have their say, Shannon Donahoo
This charitable effort at diplomacy presented an almost entirely positive appraisal of the state of Catholic education in Melbourne.
455 - May 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The issues included marriage and the family criminal justice education the global common good and immigration.
456 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Chavagnes International College, Raymond De Souza
May I encourage other Australian parents to consider sending their boys to Chavagnes where they will receive a 100 per cent Catholic education.
457 - Mar 2005 - Adult Education: Sydney Centre for Thomistic Studies continues a great teacher's legacy, Audrey English
After some years as foundational Rector of the Marist Seminary at Toongabbie the Doc established the Aquinas Academy in 1945 to provide adult education in the Faith.
458 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
The following are some of the lecture notes and observations of a student who recently undertook a unit in the Diploma of Religious Education at a Sydney campus of Australian Catholic University.
459 - Mar 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Founded in Australia in May 2000 the Caring Foundation is modelled on the US-based Vitae Caring Foundation which aims to reduce the number of abortions by using mass media education.
460 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Books wanted (letter), Edwin McGrath
Id like to buy it too); Prof Fred Schonell The Psychology of Reading (about 1948); Correspondence Notes for Trained Infant Teachers Certificate Parts 1 2 Education Department Vic (about 1948); The Four Volumes of City of God by Venerable Mary of Agreda (unabridged copies) 1903.
461 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Religion inquiry (letter), Jeff Tan
Mark Shea and Amy Welborn have been monitoring how some supposedly Catholic educational institutions have not remained faithful to their Catholic mission.
462 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
For example in speaking of the education of religious the documents remind us that religious formation is not a matter of a few years of initial guidance but a life-long affair.
463 - Feb 2005 - Education: State Aid: answering the critics' arguments, Fr Matthew Kirby
A lot of ink was spilt in the pages of the newspapers on the subject of public vs private education with the opponents of State Aid for independent schools the most vocal.
464 - Feb 2005 - Timor Leste: Australia and East Timor: a Timorese Salesian Brother's impressions, Br Marcal Lopes
Last February I arrived in Australia from Timor Leste to embark on studies for a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership at Australian Catholic University.
465 - Feb 2005 - The Church in Australia 2005: can the tide be turned?, Michael Gilchrist
Catholic education Catholic education - including Catholic Education Offices and Australian Catholic University - needs to be subjected to close scrutiny.
466 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The bishop added that because of the Churchs close contacts with education they would be able to ensure that schools and tertiary institutions were pregnancy-friendly and that the girls would be treated well and supported.
467 - Dec 2004 - Books: Making Sense of Private Revelations, by Fr Paul Newton, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Rev Mgr Peter J Elliott is Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
468 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Catholic youth (letter), Robert Denahy
The nine answers that Father Frank Brennan gives to our searching Catholic youth will not solve the problem of the approximate 95 percent failure rate in Catholic education.
469 - Dec 2004 - Society: American surveys show advantages of sexual abstinence education
In October the US House of Representatives voted for a 49 per cent increase in funding for abstinence education with the Senate set to pass the measure in November thanks to a strong Republican majority following the latest elections.
470 - Dec 2004 - New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith, Fr John Walter
Catholic educationalists have quite often sheeted the blame home squarely on the non-practising families the children come from.
471 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The document had been issued to address the problem of widespread dissent in the Churchs institutions of higher education but practical responses from the worlds bishops have been slow in coming.
472 - Dec 2004 - Editorial: Religious literacy: why not a national inquiry?, Michael Gilchrist
Federal Minister for Education Dr Brendan Nelson recently announced the setting up of a national inquiry into the way reading is being taught in Australian primary schools.
473 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Extraordinary ministers of Communion (letter), Leon Voesenek
Elizabeth Harrington education officer with the Brisbane Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission wrote in her column Liturgy Lines (The Catholic Leader 22 August 2004): I attended Mass where no extraordinary ministers were used .
474 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Archbishop Mannix and State Aid (letter), T.A. Rigg
If the Catholic education system has a shred of gratitude pictures of Archbishop Mannix Senator McManus (representing the DLP) and Bob Santamaria of the National Civic Council would be displayed in a place of honour in every Catholic school and educational administrative centre in this country.
475 - Nov 2004 - Letters: State Aid (letter), George Caruana JP
Catholic schools and all other schools owe the existence of State Aid to Gough Whitlam and his then Education Minister Kim Beazley Snr and not to the Democratic Labor Party.
476 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Crisis of faith (letter), Errol P. Duke
He does not pander to society by softening the Churchs position but rather challenges it to change; he places a strong focus on revitalising the Churchs priorities of regular sacramental participation; revisiting the prime purpose of a Catholic school education - turning out practising Catholics.
477 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Pastoral problems (letter), Fr Frank Brennan SJ
I am pleased that he has quoted at length from my August address to the Sandhurst Diocese Secondary Education Conference (see www.
478 - Nov 2004 - Obituary: RIP Michael Davies - The passing of a true defender of the Faith, Michael Foley
On completion of his secondary education he joined the Somerset Light Infantry and saw service abroad firstly in Malaya during the Communist insurgency and later in the Middle East following the Suez crisis of 1956.
479 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
What is more widespread adoption of Gabriel Morans ongoing revelation theories and of Thomas Groomes hermenutic of suspicion by religious education professionals have wreaked great havoc on the maturing faith of many young Catholics.
480 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
Teacher education As in Australia a major challenge given the predominant role of the laity in todays Catholic schools is to ensure that teachers believe and practise the Faith.
481 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Two Wings Of Catholic Thought, edited by D.R. Foster, J.W. Koterski SJ, Br Christian Moe FSC
It is divided into three sections: four essays deal with doctrinal perspectives; two with the implication of the teaching of the encyclical for Catholic higher education; and four review the historical perspectives highlighted in the encyclical.
482 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Ceremonies Of The Roman Rite Described, Fortescue,O'Connell, Alcuin Reid, Msgr. Peter J. Elliott
Elliott EV is parish priest of East Malvern and Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education Melbourne Archdiocese.
483 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Liturgical abuses (letter), George Simpson
While I agree that this generation has received extensive instruction - if not brainwashing at times - this does not necessarily equate with education.
484 - Oct 2004 - Letters: State Aid (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
The people to whom Catholic education has reason to be everlastingly grateful are the leaders and supporters of the much misrepresented and much reviled Democratic Labor Party which constantly fought for State Aid.
485 - Oct 2004 - News: The Church around the World
Culture of Life Foundation Scottish Cardinal attacks sex education program Cardinal Keith OBrien has attacked the Scottish Government for the child abuse of putting limitless resources into sinister sex-education projects.
486 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Brennans comments were made in August on the ABCs religion program Compass and during an address to the Sandhurst Diocese Secondary Education Conference.
487 - Sep 2004 - Letters: State Aid, George Caruana JP
I wish to comment on the article by Cardinal Pell Catholic education: triumph over adversity (July AD2000).
488 - Sep 2004 - Adult education: Latin language course in Melbourne
An intensive Latin course and an adult religious education program based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church are to be conducted by the Fraternity of St Peter in Melbourne.
489 - Sep 2004 - Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre courses prove popular, Peter Holmes
Readers may recall an earlier report on the launch of new courses by the Catholic Adult Education Centre (CAEC) in Sydney (see Melbourne and Sydney initiatives to educate adults in the Catholic faith February 2004 AD2000).
490 - Sep 2004 - Mass Attendance: Where have all the worshippers gone?, Fr Martin Durham
Urgently needed is a concerted effort to convey the Churchs teachings on the Eucharist the Mass and the priesthood via homilies teachers and catechists inservices religious education and adult education courses liturgy committee meetings and the like if things are to be turned around.
491 - Sep 2004 - Iraqi bishop: positive developments despite the violence and bloodshed, Bishop Rabban Al-Qas
The school is an attempt to encourage scientific education and to overcome the obstacles and controls of Saddams former regime.
492 - Sep 2004 - Books: Exposing 'The Da Vinci Code' fraud, James Hitchcock
Itching ears Paradoxically many people who might be thought of as unusually active church members the kind who frequent Bible-study groups workshops and adult-education classes often seem to do so precisely because they have as St Paul warned itching ears.
493 - Sep 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The opinion relied upon Liberty Counsels amicus brief in holding that the Florida Legislature had a legitimate interest in encouraging a stable and nurturing environment for the education and socialisation of its adopted children .
494 - Aug 2004 - Reflection: Why teaching in a Catholic school is far more than a profession, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Secondary schools then provide a privileged means by which the Catholic community gives the student an academic vocational and religious education (Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Oceania).
495 - Aug 2004 - Books: DANIEL MANNIX: Wit and Wisdom, by Michael Gilchrist, Hermann Kelly
A fervent Irish nationalist born in Charleville Co Cork in 1864 Dr Mannix was also a provocative defender of Catholic rights in politics and education.
496 - Aug 2004 - Carnivale Christi: Whatever happened to beauty in art?, Paul Fitzgerald
The art establishment by the way is comprised of the art critics of the metropolitan papers the directors of the big art galleries the chairs of fine arts at the universities the powers that be in the education departments and the administrative bodies such as the art councils and the ministries of the arts.
497 - Aug 2004 - History: Catholic education: triumph over adversity, Cardinal George Pell
This article is adapted from Cardinal Pells comments made at the launch of From the Murray to the Sea: The History of Catholic Education in the Ballarat Diocese by Dr Jill Blee at St Patricks Cathedral Hall 18 May 2004.
498 - Aug 2004 - The morning after pill, Bishop Anthony Fisher
For two generations now we have experimented in mass sex education condom and pill supply abortion on demand - you name it - and still some babies escape the net.
499 - Aug 2004 - Editorial: New challenges for Catholic education, Peter Westmore
It is easy to forget the vital role of the Catholic education system which alone for almost a century upheld the right of parents to a faith-based education for their children.
500 - Jul 2004 - Books: An Essay on the Restoration of Property, by Hilaire Belloc, John Ballantyne
Available from AD Books) The following is a quote from a 1990s cult classic entitled An Incomplete Education: To get a firm grasp on profit and its counterpart loss you might want to consider the Biblical quotation What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul?
501 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Abusive letters, Maureen Federico
Recently on the ABC news the Catholic Church (in this case its education system) was depicted in an unfavourable light.
502 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools (letter), George Simpson
On documented evidence todays Catholic education system on the whole cannot pretend to bear good fruit.
503 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Ineffective system (letter), John Mulholland
I am presuming that the party line to which Elizabeth Alderton refers is to receive a Catholic education at a Catholic school.
504 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Responding to vigorous leadership we worked our way into the mainstream building our churches like great statements of faith educating our children in schools which defied the policy of secular education and contributing proudly as Catholics to all areas of community professional and political life.
505 - Jul 2004 - Feminist 'rituals': no substitute for prayer, Joanna Bogle
But these included people who had a considerable influence on Catholic education and so the lore and language of feminist ritual - circle-dancing throwing pebbles into pools a great deal of ego-boosting sharing of stories - has found its way into the classroom.
506 - Jul 2004 - Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion, Michael Gilchhrist
Following introduction of the new Missal and Lectionary there will be a uniform national education program set up by the bishops.
507 - Jun 2004 - Letter: Signs of hope (letter), Daniel Attard
At the same time the Catholic education many of us experienced was little more than a sacrilegious joke while some modern day churches look more like brick barnyards gone wrong than places to worship our Holy Redeemer - not to mention the succession of liturgical abuses that occur within them.
508 - Jun 2004 - Education: Chavagnes en Paillers: a Catholic college with a Catholic culture, Paul Russell
The staff are all Catholic and all passionate about the faith and about education.
509 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist
Public education and day care pull children out of the home.
510 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
That the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn: nbsp;- Initiate education and training for lay women and men so that they may serve as lay celebrants of Baptisms Order of Christian Funerals Marriages and Celebration of the Word in the absence of a priest or deacon.
511 - May 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools (letter), Elizabeth Alderton
Instead of sensationalising and bandwagonning about the supposed crisis in Catholic education and playing God in your judgement of parents motive in their sending of their children to Catholic schools how about you pause for one moment and look at the power of the Holy Spirit at work in these microcosms of faith.
512 - May 2004 - Education: The religious character of Catholic schools: how can it be enhanced?, Br Paul Macrossan CFC
Br Paul Macrossan who provides this analysis of present-day religious education in Catholic schools is the Diocesan Director of Catholic Missions in Darwin.
513 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Elsewhere in his Letter the Holy Father appealed to parish communities and priests in particular to show special care for altar servers who make up a garden of priestly vocations: The group of altar servers under your guidance as part of the parish community can be given a valuable experience of Christian education and become a kind of pre-seminary.
514 - Apr 2004 - Books: An apology for the revival of Christian Architecture, by Augustus Welby Pugin, Michael Gilchrist
Much of his thought in the Apology is on architectural education and in rejecting the straitjacket of neoclassical architectural principles Pugin had a considerable impact on mid-Victorian architecture.
515 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools
The question has perplexed me for a long time along with the fact that nobody seems aghast at the fantasy aspects of what today is called Catholic education.
516 - Apr 2004 - The Salesians in East Timor: progress report, Br Michael Lynch
The Australian Salesian Missions Office is providing valuable support to the 100 Salesians (priests brothers and sisters) who are working mainly in education.
517 - Apr 2004 - Whatever happened to reverence at Mass?, Matthew Greene
RE curriculum While the lack of reverence on the part of adults attending Mass might be reversed by the clergy young people need further reminders from parents and religious education teachers of the need for quiet prayer and regular short visits to the Blessed Sacrament.
518 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
Beauty His secondary education began at a Benedictine school where his love of music was fostered but he then moved on to a Jesuit school with an otherwise more demanding academic curriculum.
519 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart
We know about his work on conscription education and a just society for Australia.
520 - Apr 2004 - Riccardo Piol of Communion and Liberation makes an impact in Victoria, AD2000 Report
In the evening he gave a public talk in Warragul at the Catholic Education Office chaired by Bishop Coffey who welcomed both Piol and the call to evangelisation.
521 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
In February the British media published details of a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research that recommends drastic changes to religious education in schools.
522 - Mar 2004 - Books: THE HEADLONG TRAFFIC : Poems and Prose 1997 to 2002, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
THE HEADLONG TRAFFIC: A Collection of Poems and Prose 1997 to 2002 by Bruce Dawe (Melbourne Pearson Education 2003 98pp $24.
523 - Mar 2004 - Events: Albury-Melbourne Life Walk (letter), George Simpson
This years fundraiser is a major source of the income necessary to carry on Right to Lifes work in the fields of pregnancy counselling community education on life issues and the lobbying of politicians on abortion euthanasia and embryo research.
524 - Mar 2004 - Letters: Tabernacle (letter), Rosemary Chandler
We are saddened by the poor faith education our young people are receiving but are we showing them by our example that we truly believe that Christ our God is present in our churches?
525 - Mar 2004 - HIV/AIDS: A Catholic approach to AIDS: value-based behaviour change, Sr Miriam Duggan
A Harvard study on prevention of HIV in Uganda credits abstinence education with significant effectiveness in reducing AIDS in Uganda.
526 - Mar 2004 - Ad limina 2004: The 'Statement of Conclusions' five years on, Michael Gilchrist
Bishops needed to put their energy above all into education while correcting these abuses individually.
527 - Mar 2004 - Editorial: Archbishop Wilson's challenge for educators, Michael Gilchrist
At a time when many Catholic parents - and not a few teachers - seem to have lost sight of the essential purpose of a Catholic school being concerned more about the secular rather than the moral and spiritual aspects of education Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaides recent words to a group of teachers and teacher trainees about to enter the Catholic system for the 2004 school year were a timely reminder of the Churchs educational priorities.
528 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Higher calling, Judy O'Reilly
My own Catholic education and formation instructed me in the doctrine that consecrated celibacy was a higher calling than that of the married state and reflection shows that this must be so.
529 - Feb 2004 - Melbourne and Sydney initiatives to educate adults in the Catholic faith, Peter Holmes
What she found along with many others was the Certificate in Youth Ministry offered by Catholic Adult Education Melbourne (CAEM).
530 - Feb 2004 - Editorial: What is the purpose of Catholic schools?, Michael Gilchrist
The report referred to a survey commissioned by the Toowoomba Catholic Education Board which revealed most Catholic parents did not see the religious education of their children as important in their choice of school.
531 - Dec 2003 - Books: Socrates meets Machiavelli, Socrates meets Marx, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
Socrates: But your social conditions including your education were thoroughly bourgeois.
532 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Unwarranted school closure, Maurice McGrath
After years of paying it off we are now faced with an empty college in a rural setting and nowhere for our children to receive a Catholic education within 70 km in any direction.
533 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist
His outspoken defence of the underdog whether individual community or national his educational policies to raise the status of the Catholic community and his light rein in Church leadership reflected these underlying principles.
534 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart
There was also a good representation of Catholic groups and agencies that provide services to families youth the destitute aboriginals education the sick and dying as well as sacred art and music.
535 - Dec 2003 - INTERVIEW: New Melbourne and Sydney Religious Education texts, Msgr Peter Elliott
Elliott EV has been responsible for overseeing the production of a new series of religious education texts commissioned by Dr George Pell for the Melbourne Archdiocese following his appointment there in 1996.
536 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne's Caroline Chisholm Library passes ten year mark, Michael C.C. Ryan
Anna Krohn now Director of Catholic Adult Education was another.
537 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart
The Archbishop initiated the writing of new religious education texts and revitalised Catholic Youth Ministry - the latter paying spiritual dividends with young prodigal Catholics returning to the Church and the nurturing of vocations.
538 - Nov 2003 - Social Justice Statements: in whose name should they be published?, Richard Egan
These fears can be combated only by thorough-going education campaigns in inter-ethnic tolerance and multicultural harmony to overcome the deep-seated psychic ailments of Australians less enlightened than themselves.
539 - Nov 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
which intends to express particular solicitude for sub- Saharan Africa and to pay special attention to the problems of stigma and discrimination accompanying the disease to access to treatment and care to education on responsible sexual behavior including abstinence and marital fidelity and to the care of HIV/AIDS orphans.
540 - Nov 2003 - John Paul II elevates Archbishop George Pell to the College of Cardinals, Michael Gilchrist
Ordained a priest for the Ballarat Diocese in 1966 he was consecrated an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne in 1987 following a ten- year career in Catholic higher education and two years as rector of the Corpus Christi seminary.
541 - Oct 2003 - Books: Crisis In Religious Education, by Eamonn Keane, Damien Tudehope
CRISIS IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION by Eamonn Keane (Association for Renewal of Religious Education Sydney 2003 80pp $8.
542 - Oct 2003 - Books: I The Lord Am With You Always: Prayers and Meditations for Eucharistic Adoration, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Adoration is included in the Melbourne-Sydney religious education texts To Know Worship and Love.
543 - Oct 2003 - Letters: New RE program (letter), Paul Chigwidden
On the front page of the June edition of the diocesan paper Together the Bishop of Wagga Wagga announced that his new religious education program already used in other dioceses is sufficiently comprehensive to be endorsed by the NSW Board of Studies as suitable for the Higher School Certificate.
544 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Education crisis (letter), Alex Sharah
Having read Eamonn Keanes Crisis in Religious Education I am not surprised at the failure of our Catholic schools to pass on the faith.
545 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Thomas Groome (letter), Dr Susan Moore
Recently there has been heated public discussion about Religious Education materials influenced by the thinking of Boston Colleges Thomas Groome.
546 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
Parents have figured out whats being offered around the country in terms of Catholic education is a fraud Christendom theology professor William Marshner says so these smaller places are getting a second look.
547 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
The eclipse of moral consciousness is most evident in the multi-dimensional undermining of the meaning of marriage as an indissoluble union between one man and one woman that is ordered towards the generation and education of children.
548 - Oct 2003 - Melbourne Archdiocese responds to John Paul II's Year of the Rosary, AD2000 Report
The new program titled Teaching Companion: Year of the Rosary 2003 was prepared by Melbournes Vicariate for Religious Education and Catholic Education Office.
549 - Oct 2003 - After 25 years: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
Even so there are limits to John Paul IIs outreach if local churches fail to put their weight effectively behind Papal teachings or leave or appoint unreliable experts in seminaries education offices liturgy commissions or universities.
550 - Sep 2003 - Letters: Hidden agenda (letter), Dr Arthur Hartwig
Kevin McBride (August AD2000) under Sex education in SA asks Is there some hidden agenda?
551 - Sep 2003 - Homosexual conduct: how Gospel teaching can be distorted, Bill Muehlenberg
Modern education leaves a lot to be desired these days.
552 - Sep 2003 - Pope John Paul II calls for greater use of Latin, Denis Murphy
Educationally this makes no sense.
553 - Sep 2003 - Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
Sponsorship has been secured from many areas with generous support from the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne ensuring that close to 5000 senior secondary and some junior school students can attend various activities during this three day event.
554 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
Graduates of Franciscan University of Steubenville are holding positions in religious education in schools and parishes across the country where they are sharing the new scholarship with rank and file Catholics.
555 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Abstinence education is very valuable in promoting a viable alternative to sexual activity and can reduce the risks of unplanned pregnancy sexually transmitted disease and single parenthood said US Senator Arlen Specter a Pennsylvania Republican.
556 - Aug 2003 - Priests 24/7 : A video documentary, Michael Gilchrist
It would be an ideal resource for Catholic secondary schools religious education programs to illustrate the many faceted aspects of priestly life as well as for the general promotion of vocations.
557 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Sex education in SA (letter), Kevin McBride
Are South Australian parents happy about the new State sex education program - even with a friendly caring teacher instructing our children in this very private moral area?
558 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
By contrast the Church offers faith in Jesus Christ the source of the hope that does not disappoint along with recognition of the value of the human person and his inalienable dignity the sacredness of human life and the centrality of the family the importance of education and freedom of thought speech and religion the legal protection of individuals and groups the promotion of solidarity and the common good and the recognition of the dignity of labour.
559 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Pell biography feedback (letter), Mary Lou Corboy
I am the mother of a Catholic family who chose 13 years ago to rescue our children from the Catholic education system and educate them in the faith around the kitchen table at home - a choice we have never regretted.
560 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In his speech he recalled that for centuries Catholics in India have been carrying on the essential work of evangelisation especially in the fields of education and social services freely offered to Christians and non-Christians alike .
561 - Jun 2003 - Books: Our books are the cheapest!
95 Catholic Education: Homeward Bound Kimberly Hahn amp; Mary Hasson Two experienced home schooling mothers present a detailed balanced and practical guide on the merits of home education as well as helpful curriculum ideas.
562 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), Alistair Barros
Calls for doctrinal change however need to be tempered by admissions implied in Education in Faith.
563 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
Far too many of our religious education materials have been authored by and infused with the disappointments of former priests and sisters.
564 - Jun 2003 - The environment: rediscovering the balanced Catholic perspective, Michael Casanova
Brisbanes Archdiocesan Catholic Education this year published its Lenten Program book under the title of Attending to the Sacred.
565 - Jun 2003 - Interview: Vatican II and the liturgy, 40 years later, Zenit News Service
He is episcopal vicar for religious education professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family and a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
566 - May 2003 - Books: Our books are the cheapest!
95 Catholic Education: Homeward Bound Kimberly Hahn amp Mary Hasson Two experienced home schooling mothers present a detailed balanced and practical guide on the merits of home education as well as helpful curriculum ideas.
567 - May 2003 - Books: Essentials of the Faith: A Guide to the Catechism / Pastoral Answers, Michael E. Daniel
Essentials of the Faith would be an ideal resource for adult education groups secondary religious education classes and trainee teachers as well as for personal prayer and reflection.
568 - May 2003 - Review: The Mysteries of Light: Rosary for Children and Youth on cassette, Colleen McGuinness-Howard
au) Responding to Pope John Paul IIs Rosarium Virginis Mariae Perth Catholic Productions the producers of The Rosary for Children and The Rosary for Youth have released another significant contribution to the world of Catholic prayer and education with the Mysteries of Light also known as the Luminous Mysteries.
569 - May 2003 - Language: The forgotten language of adoration of God - through words and actions, Audrey English
Audrey English is a former Catholic school teacher who presently works at the Holy Family Education Centre and the Centre for Thomistic Studies in Sydney.
570 - May 2003 - Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002): How faith survived in a Communist prison, Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
The following are extracts from the late Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuans address - Experiencing Gods liberating power - given at a religious education conference in Los Angeles prior to his death in 2002.
571 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
The University of St Thomas in St Paul Minnesota began the first Catholic Studies program in 1992 to offer students a comprehensive Catholic education shaped by the broad Catholic intellectual tradition.
572 - Apr 2003 - Books: Our books are the cheapest!
95 Catholic Education: Homeward Bound Kimberly Hahn amp; Mary Hasson Two experienced home schooling mothers present a detailed balanced and practical guide on the merits of home education as well as helpful curriculum ideas.
573 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
No-one in the book tells us whether the Australian Catholic University or Notre Dame Australia is making a difference despite the fact that at NDA the Knights of the Southern Cross disburse annually a significant number of scholarships to RE teachers and Professor McLaughlin of ACU has claimed that the Church in Australia will soon be taken over by its educational establishment because people trust their teachers rather than the clergy.
574 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Experiential catechesis (letter), Fr. G.H. Duggan SM
It is an application to religious education of the sceptical pragmatism of John Dewey whose approach was summed up in the phrase they learn by doing.
575 - Apr 2003 - Education: Chavagnes International Catholic college update, Br John Moylan
It should be obvious that there is much more to the religious education of boys at the school than the formal classroom lessons.
576 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
Good schools mean little if a child has no interest in education; economic opportunity means even less if a child isnt raised in a culture where the day after tomorrow matters.
577 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Dr Susan Pascoe appointed the new Director of the Melbourne Catholic Education Office last year was interviewed by journalist Paul Gray in the 9 February 2003 issue of Kairos.
578 - Mar 2003 - Books: The Self Evident Proof, by Richard Kouchoo, Catherine Sheehan
It is disturbing when faced with the obvious logical errors involved in relativism and agnosticism to note nevertheless the great influence such thinking has had in our higher education institutions in the Western world.
579 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Accountability (letter), John Leach
Having spent many years as a teacher and as a parent for more I cannot claim any real familiarity with what Eamonn Keane describes as one of the most defective religious education methodologies in use today - Thomas Groomes Shared Christian Praxis.
580 - Mar 2003 - Letters: New Age? (letter), Dr Lance Eccles
Reading the letters about the Parramatta Diocese religious education program (February AD2000) I was astonished to see the name of the program: Sharing Our Story.
581 - Mar 2003 - Sydney Archdiocese RE test: behind one school's success story, Michael Gilchrist
Since 1998 the Sydney Catholic Education Office has been running a religious education test for Grade Six students in the archdiocese.
582 - Feb 2003 - Books: The Catholic School In An Age Of Dissent, by Leonard A. Kennedy CSB, Michael Gilchrist
A recently published book - The Catholic School in an Age of Dissent - documents the widespread use of seriously defective RE and sex education programs and materials.
583 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Threat to schools (letter), Richard Congram
Archbishop Bathersby attacked the amendments as a threat to Catholic education on marriage and sexual morality.
584 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Teaching the truth (letter), Dennis MacDonald
The question that has to be put to those in charge of religious education is: How can anyone in justice to parents and children promote Groome as a religious education luminary when the essence of his method is to plant doubt in the minds of students regarding the reliability of the Church in teaching the truth of the Gospel?
585 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Eamonn Keane responds (letter)
My article in the December edition of AD2000 made no assertion that the Parramatta Diocesan Religious Education Program Sharing our Story contains material which contradicts orthodox Church teaching.
586 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Thomas Groome (letter), Bishop Kevin Manning
In a recent article in the December/January AD2000 Mr Eamonn Keane continues his long-standing criticism of religious education in the Diocese of Parramatta.
587 - Feb 2003 - Catholic learning in the liberal arts, Karl Schmude
It will offer a broad undergraduate education in the Liberal Arts in the light of Catholic truth preparing students for life as well as the workplace.
588 - Feb 2003 - Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Msgr Elliott is Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education in the Melbourne Archdiocese and parish priest of St Mary the Immaculate Conception East Malvern.
589 - Feb 2003 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne: a progress report, AD2000 Report
Some are teachers who are interested in improving their knowledge of philosophy theology and catechetics; others have a background in psychology marriage education social work healthcare or NFP and hope to work in one of the many Catholic social welfare agencies.
590 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Their initiative in the field of Catholic education was prompted by the small percentage of Catholic students who practise the Faith after leaving school.
591 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
His questions range from recruitment and screening to the character of the education for chastity and to questions about the approach taken to the issue of homosexuality.
592 - Dec 2002 - Books: Bio-Engagement: Making a Christian Difference through Bioethics Today, Bill Muehlenberg
Policy debates These authorities deal with such topics as: fetal tissue research in vitro fertilisation stem cell research health care issues abortion euthanasia sex education and many others.
593 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Women's Commission (2) (letter), Dr Myles M. Kehoe
He clearly demonstrates the foolish nonsense that some of our respected bishops condone and even actively encourage to satisfy the raucous noise from a few paranoid feminists while they refuse to acknowledge or tackle the crisis in Catholic education and the pleas for true leadership from the dwindling population of orthodox Catholics who struggle to preserve the Faith of our fathers against those who should be protecting it.
594 - Dec 2002 - Brisbane Synod 2003: a leadership challenge, Peter D. Howard
Informed observers hope that foci and strategies will now be directed to solve the ever-deepening crises with a real dialogue on vocations and formation for the priesthood and a stress on fidelity to truth - in formation and methodology for teachers and catechists in Catholic school religious education curricula parishes and the Catholic media.
595 - Dec 2002 - Thomas Groome: his influence on religious education continues, Eamonn Keane
The crisis in Catholic religious education highlighted by Professor Denis McLaughlin in his address at the 2002 National Conference of the Association of Principals of Catholic Secondary Schools of Australia last October (see report on page 6) becomes more intelligible when we note the continuing influence of Thomas Groome over the thinking of leading Australian Catholic educators.
596 - Dec 2002 - Education: Most teachers reject Church teaching: ACU professor, Michael Gilchrist
The cult of individualism and subjectivism so prevalent in modern Western culture has also had its impact on religious education.
597 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Australia was represented at the Congress by Bishop Gerald Holohan of Bunbury (WA) who chaired the English language group and Msgr Peter Elliott Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education Archdiocese of Melbourne who is a member of the International Council for Catechesis of the Congregation for the Clergy.
598 - Nov 2002 - Books: A Generation Betrayed: Deconstructing Catholic Education, by Eamonn Keane, John Young
A GENERATION BETRAYED: Deconstructing Catholic Education in the English-Speaking World by Eamonn Keane (Hatherleigh Press 2002 XXII 316pp hardback $65.
599 - Nov 2002 - Australian apologist Raymond de Souza's successful overseas lecture tour, AD2000 Report
In the past 20 years he has given hundreds of talks and seminars on Catholic apologetics and assisted in religious education in parishes schools and lay organisations in the United States Canada South Africa Brazil New Zealand and Australia.
600 - Nov 2002 - Catholic schools: restoring a sense of sin, Br John Moylan CFC
He has a Master of Arts from the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University New York City and a Master of Education in Religious Education from the ACU.
601 - Nov 2002 - Sydney Archdiocese courses on 'Catechism', Fr John Flader
Fr John Flader is Director of the Catholic Adult Education Centre of the Archdiocese of Sydney.
602 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The bishops pointed out that conjugal love unity and complementarity in the diversity of the sexes are natural instruments of a healthy and balanced education of a child.
603 - Oct 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
00 A Generation Betrayed Eamonn Keane Confronting error and falsehood in todays Catholic education environment.
604 - Oct 2002 - Books: Godfaring: On Reason, Faith and Sacred Being, by Francis Clark, Br Christian Moe FSC
Available from AD Books) Some books are an education in themselves: in my view this is one such.
605 - Oct 2002 - Letters: New Zealand (letter), Kevin E. Fennessy
My original school education under the Catholic system served me very well indeed.
606 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Letters to the Bishops (letter), Mavis Power
To let the bishops know how sex education in our primary schools is contributing to the loss of innocence of children and has been partly responsible for the breakdown in Christian values.
607 - Oct 2002 - US billionaire promotes orthodox teaching, Zenit News Service
After receiving a billion dollars from the sale of his business Mr Monaghan has been returning thanks to God by devoting his resources to building an independent chain of primary secondary and post-secondary Catholic educational institutions through the Ave Maria Foundation of which he is principal benefactor.
608 - Oct 2002 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women justifies its existence, Michael Gilchrist
The appointment in August of Susan Pascoe as the new Director of Education for the Archdiocese of Melbourne - one of the most important positions in the Church in Australia - was by no means untypical.
609 - Oct 2002 - Power without responsibility: the vendetta against Dr Pell, Peter Westmore
In all the time he was a student a seminarian a parish priest Director of the Aquinas Campus of the Institute of Catholic Education from 1974-84 and as Principal of the Institute of Catholic Education (now part of Australian Catholic University) auxiliary bishop and Archbishop of Melbourne there has never been an allegation of any sort of impropriety against him of the type now made or otherwise.
610 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Church design (letter), Greg Briscoe-Hough
In a time of unprecedented education and communication and volumes of opinion little or no time has been allowed for contemplation and interpretation.
611 - Sep 2002 - The 1960s 'cultural revolution': from self-sacrifice to self-fulfillment, Fr Gregory Jordan
The causes for this striking change are multiple from the growth of a youth culture through the all-pervasive media to changes in Catholic education which almost all of our students have received.
612 - Sep 2002 - Promoting Catholic vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
working in the healthcare field or education.
613 - Sep 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Ugandas successful anti-AIDS strategy Abstinence education more effective Uganda may be on its way to wiping out AIDS by using a strategy based on chastity and fidelity according to findings in a Harvard University study.
614 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC
As the Catholic school has as its specific duty the complete Christian formation of its pupils (Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education The Catholic School 1977) the responsibility of the school to assist students to form appropriate attitudes to the Church is apparent.
615 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
This would include finding even more effective ways of contemplating the face of Jesus in our troubled world by responding to the universal call of holiness as well as the living out of the Sacraments today especially the Eucharist and the Sacrament of Reconciliation assisting families even further in their present day challenges launching new ways of encouraging vocations to the priesthood and religious life and continuing to support our youth especially their education in faith.
616 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist
82) Catholic schools have no reason to exist apart from the Church and a Catholic education cannot be called Catholic if it is not faithful to the Catholic Church and its living traditions (p.
617 - Jul 2002 - Books: A Pope and a Council on the Sacred Liturgy, by Aidan Nichols OP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Therefore both authoritative sources never envisaged a functionalist understanding of liturgy which plagues us today the notion that we make liturgy so liturgy is an instrument for social educational or ideological ends.
618 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Short-changed (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
My Catholic education was completed by me through the reading of orthodox Catholic books after I began to mix with people who were pro-life.
619 - Jul 2002 - Chavagnes International College for boys, Paul Russell
Chavagnes is a boarding college for English-speaking students who will receive a classical education that is unashamedly Catholic.
620 - Jul 2002 - '60 Minutes': Archbishop George Pell puts the record straight, Archbishop George Pell
I was appointed Episcopal Vicar of Education a non-executive part-time position representing the bishop on 25 March 1973.
621 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Father Fessio (letter), P.A. McKenna
My nine years of Jesuit education was a solid foundation for vigorous tertiary and adult Catholic education.
622 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
Controversially taboo subjects such as contraception and abortion divorce and remarriage the fundamental disorder of alternative life styles and the distorted sex education offered in the local public schools were dealt with clearly at Sunday Mass in accordance with Church teaching.
623 - May 2002 - Books: Beyond Gay, by David Morrison, John S. Webster
Balanced compassionate and faithful to Christian teaching in its approach it would be useful reading for those involved in ministry education and those experiencing same sex attraction along with their families and friends.
624 - May 2002 - Letters: Christian principles (letter), Errol P. Duke
Its platform includes opposition to legalised euthanasia and prostitution zero tolerance for drug-taking and trafficking working towards and reducing the current dependancy of government revenue on gambling - particularly poker machines - and seriously to tackle reforms of taxation health education and law so as to benefit the family.
625 - May 2002 - Letters: Decline of the faith (letter), Brian Carter
It said that even though the Vatican thunders about abortion same-sex marriage assisted suicide illicit sex consumerism smutty sex education defective theology and more yet in most parishes there is little effort made to rectify the situation.
626 - May 2002 - 'The Resurrection in the university' - IMCSA National Conference in Sydney, Nicholas Rynne
Students travelled from all corners of the country with almost 100 representatives from 20 of Australias 36 universities and four other institutions of tertiary education meeting during the four-day conference.
627 - May 2002 - US Jesuits' action against Father Fessio sparks worldwide protests, AD2000 Report
In January 2002 the Congregation for Catholic Education sent a letter to the university listing conditions under which the Institute should proceed.
628 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Victory for parents over sex education Canadian archbishop upholds Vatican guidelines Catholic parents across Canada have long struggled with the issue of sex education programs in Catholic schools.
629 - Apr 2002 - Books: For Youth and the Poor - De La Salle Brothers in Australia, PNG and NZ 1906-2000, Michael Bohan
It is long overdue because the De La Salle Brothers have made an enormous contribution to the work of Christian Education in Australia.
630 - Apr 2002 - The Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, Hal G.P. Colebatch
One cannot speak for freaks psychopaths and the worst products of the contemporary culture war but normal children who experiment with spells soon grow out of them with any sort of ordinarily good parenting and education.
631 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
An evaluation process has since taken place with forms sent to all parish priests religious houses and religious education co-ordinators in the Diocese.
632 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne 'Sexuality Directives' put parents first, Anthony Cappello
Writing in 1981 in Familiaris Consortio Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the trusted role of parents as first educators when he stated: Sex education which is a basic right and duty of parents must always be carried out under their attentive guidance whether at home or in educational centres chosen and controlled by them.
633 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Teaching position, Robert Anderson
I have twelve years experience mainly at senior level with some recent casual VCE tutoring and am qualified to teach Biology with some lower level Chemistry Science Maths Computer-IT and Religious Education.
634 - Mar 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
It will be a basic statement of what should be done in religious education in the United States.
635 - Mar 2002 - Editorial: Selecting and forming future priests, Michael Gilchrist
Apostolic visitations - arranged by the Vatican Congregation for Education - have been made to almost all the worlds seminaries over the past three years.
636 - Feb 2002 - Books: St Therese of Lisieux: from Lisieux to the Four Corners of the World, Catherine Sheehan
The letter outlines the process of the cause to have her declared a Doctor of the Church despite the fact she was not a priest a bishop or a theologian; indeed she never completed her formal education.
637 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Remarkable man, Elizabeth Gilmour
He provided a sound affordable Catholic education for any girl who sought it and was clearly a person who led by example in all areas of his life.
638 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly
I recall asking a very experienced priest who spent most of his life in schools and universities how he would define Catholic education.
639 - Feb 2002 - US Conference: 'Newman's Idea of a University', Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
His report on a recent Newman Conference also draws attention to the important role of the late Msgr James McMahon in promoting Catholic higher education in the United States.
640 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
On the role of Catholic schools in the diocese he said they should exist to support the work being done in families in the education of faith in the children.
641 - Dec 2001 - New Titles from AD Books
Wuerl The chairman of the US Bishops Committee on Education offers an illuminating and authoritative overview of the faith and dogma of the Catechism of the Catholic Church key issues of Catholicism the public life of Jesus and Marys significance in the Churchs teaching.
642 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Thomas More On Statesmanship' by Gerard B. Wegemer, Michael Casanova
In Thomas More on Statesmanship one will gain a number of insights into Mores life: that after his formal education he dedicated himself to 15 years of study in political science and philosophy as well as continuing to study and lecture in law; that he was so successful in his practice of law that he earned 40 times the average wage; that he spent seven years in the Kings service before he matched this income; that it was because he worked against royal absolutism not only as guilelessly as a dove but as wisely as a serpent that the King and his enemies had to be rid of him.
643 - Dec 2001 - Obituary: Thomas Kendell (1929-2001) R.I.P. - The passing of a great Catholic educator, Nicholas Kendell
The large turnout at Tom Kendells Requiem Mass on 24 October at St John Vianneys Church Mulgrave indicated the high regard in which he was widely held especially for his educational achievements.
644 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
At least equally important have been a number of religious orders which have operated in East Timor for decades and provide the backbone of the Churchs health childcare and education services as well as agricultural outreach services and orphanages.
645 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
They will benefit from education in an authentically Catholic tradition and culture while enjoying the maturing and broadening experience of being educated with UK and USA classmates.
646 - Nov 2001 - Bookstore: New Titles from AD Books
Wuerl The chairman of the US Bishops Committee on Education offers an illuminating and authoritative overview of the faith and dogma of the Catechism of the Catholic Church key issues of Catholicism the public life of Jesus and Marys significance in the Churchs teaching.
647 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
To be a truly powerful teacher of the faith a bishop needed not only to ensure he had an excellent seminary education for his priests but to know who is intellectually and spiritually forming his future clergy what they are teaching and whether they are performing their assigned tasks.
648 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
Some highly positioned and influential leaders in Catholic education have claimed in reputable journals that it is inappropriate to use regular Eucharistic worship as an indicator of the effectiveness of Catholic schools.
649 - Oct 2001 - Salesian Archbishop from India visits Australia, Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil SDB
For it is only through education that individuals will acquire the skills to care for themselves and their families as well as to gain employment.
650 - Oct 2001 - Events: Gerry Matatics Visit / Catholic Homeschooling Conference, Parramatta, AD2000
Catholic Homeschooling Conference Lectures workshops books and educational resource displays A Catholic Homeschooling Conference is to be held in the Parramatta Diocese on 3-4 November 2001 with the support of Bishop Kevin Manning.
651 - Sep 2001 - Why today's secular culture is anti-Catholic, James Hitchcock
It exists in many ways in the education system at all levels; and it has tended to get more and more embodied in our laws and public institutions.
652 - Sep 2001 - Feminism's broad agenda within the Catholic Church, Donna Steichen
Few seemed able to sift the errors out of the new theology presented in re-education classes and workshops.
653 - Sep 2001 - Successful Thomas More Centre Winter School in Brisbane, Sidney Rofe
Referring to the events of the 1960s Dr Hitchcock noted how an explosion of scepticism had led to widespread repudiation of institutions such as the family education government and of course the Church.
654 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The greatest occupational hazard we face in religious education and catechesis is that we get so busy with the business of spreading the Gospel that we fail to heed its message and live it out personally said Bishop Lori a keynote speaker and homilist at Franciscan University of Steubenvilles St John Bosco Conference in July.
655 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
The ongoing project of religious education texts produced for every school in our Archdiocese will help to give succeeding generations a thorough knowledge of the faith and to be captured by its inspiration for good deeds.
656 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Orthodox seminary (letter), Paul Chigwidden
These courses are all recognised by the nearby Charles Sturt University and serve as credits for its Bachelor of Education degree.
657 - Aug 2001 - Australian scholarship for African priest
The war-ravaged Kinshasa (Congo) may be very distant from Australia but a number of Sydney Catholics are supporting the education of its clergy.
658 - Aug 2001 - Appreciating the Mass: a successful new publication, Fr Robert Egar PP
The committee of authors Mrs Jenny OBrien of Catholic Adult Education Fr John Fleming of the Southern Cross Bio-ethics lnstitute Mrs Rosemary Hennig of the Catholic Education Office Mr Andrew Nicholls and Mrs Rachele Tullio teachers in Catholic schools and Fr Robert Egar Parish Priest of Seacombe Gardens was careful to use language that would be intelligible to children in upper primary schools and would also be suitable to adult readers.
659 - Aug 2001 - US bishops implement papal teaching on Catholic universities, Charles E. Rice
The constitution on Catholic higher education Ex Corde Ecclesiae issued by John Paul II in 1990 went into effect in the United States in May.
660 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
The episcopate of today is no longer burdened and obstructed by defective theological education or by its social place and the resulting entanglements in politics.
661 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Patrick Reilly of the Cardinal Newman Society a Catholic higher education group said a proposal that would keep the names of those who seek or do not seek the mandatum secret was a disservice to the Church.
662 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
liturgy sacraments seminaries priesthood religious life theology Catholic schools and universities and teacher education.
663 - Jul 2001 - The case for more Church History in Catholic schools, Michael Lynch
It seems quite obvious that the trend in educational thought is now moving in the direction of a renewed emphasis on factual knowledge and against the view that subject content is secondary or even unimportant.
664 - Jul 2001 - Education: National Catholic Education Conference: but who chose the guest speakers?, Michael Gilchrist
The National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) based in Canberra is to hold a conference in Brisbane from 23 to 27 September 2001.
665 - Jul 2001 - New Vatican guidelines call for sound, accurate liturgy translations, Michael Gilchrist
Style and accuracy Monsignor Peter Elliott author of Liturgical Question Box (Ignatius Press) and Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne told AD2000: This is a welcome document.
666 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Archbishop Pell (letter), Godwin Brown
Although his term was brief his efforts and the results in many areas of Church life including the seminary liturgy religious education clergy protocols youth ministry drug rehabilitation etc have been monumental.
667 - Jun 2001 - Annual women priests protest in Adelaide, AD2000 Report
About forty people were present including the co-head of Catholic Adult Education in the archdiocese Fr Michael Trainor also a newly ordained priest Fr van Antwerpen and a number of prominent members of WATAC (Women and the Australian Church).
668 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Latest from Toowoomba Diocese Catholic Education Office Reflection Day The Catholic Education Office of the Queensland Diocese of Toowoomba organised a five-hour Reflection Day on 26 April to be run by Susan Seaton on the theme Christ: The Pattern that Connects.
669 - Jun 2001 - Archbishop Pell installed in Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
Educational priorities In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald prior to the installation Mass Archbishop Pell also indicated his educational priorities: I will be doing what I can to strengthen the religious education programs and strengthen the faith communities in Catholic schools.
670 - May 2001 - Letters: Racism (letter), Helen Daniel
These teachers including the renowned writer Adib Khan who was originally from Asia provided quality education and were accepted by their peers pupils and parents at a time when the White Australia Policy was being dismantled.
671 - May 2001 - US professor defends papal teaching on universities, Charles E. Rice
The Board noted that pre-college theological education has degenerated to making collages rather than concentrating upon the basic elements of the faith.
672 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
Western Australias bishops have approved a new 27-page Mandate and Terms of Reference document for the future directions of Catholic education in that State until 2007.
673 - May 2001 - 'Systematic instruction in the faith' program to be launched in July, Bishop Luc Matthys
A concerted and common effort by all priests catechists teachers and parents is called for - a concerted effort at all Masses on 14 Ordinary Sundays of Year commencing on 29 July; a common effort by all those involved in religious education to present the same subject/theme as given at the Sunday Mass that week.
674 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
If such clear-cut matters as the Third Rite have defied complete remedy what hope could there be for substantial reforms in the more complex deep-seated problem areas noted in the Statement of Conclusions such as seminaries liturgy Catholic education religious life and Australian Catholic University?
675 - Apr 2001 - How to avoid banal, superficial liturgies, Bishop Kevin Manning
Let me emphasise: true liturgical meaning cannot be achieved in a purely external manner and faith requires a continual process of education otherwise the words of faith begin to lose their meaning.
676 - Apr 2001 - US parishioners more outspoken about church "renovations", Zenit News Service
Despite increasing interest in such documents by the laity Sister Arlene Bennett Director of the Secretariat for Worship and Liturgical Formation for the Diocese of Gaylord Michigan thinks opponents of renovation projects tend to be ill-informed: What were trying to do is follow the official Church directive and people who havent had an education in the Church since the Second Vatican Council have a problem with anything that is being changed in the Church said Sister Arlene a proponent of the controversial renovation of St Francis Xavier Church in Petoskey.
677 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News US dioceses refuse funds for education convention Criticisms expressed on objectionable speakers Officials of the US dioceses of Peoria Illinois and Pittsburgh have refused to allocate funds to pay for teachers wishing to attend the National Catholic Educational Association convention in Milwaukee in April.
678 - Apr 2001 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family to open in July 2001, AD2000 Report
Perhaps the most important event in the recent history of Australian Catholic higher education is set to occur in July 2001 with the official opening of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
679 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why the hopes of the Council Fathers of Vatican II are yet to be realised, Michael Daniel
These dissidents many of whom held senior positions particularly in higher education institutes argued that since the Papal statement was not infallible Catholics need merely respect it.
680 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Catholic education (letter), Daniel Bryce
Yet your correspondent Gregory Kingman describes something different in what has happened to him in Catholic education.
681 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Enneagram workshop (letter), Br Con Moloney CFC
In the November AD2000 mention was made of an Enneagram Workshop promoted by the Toowoomba Catholic Education Office.
682 - Mar 2001 - The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ, Zenit News Service
He holds 21 honorary doctorates and many education and theology awards.
683 - Mar 2001 - ACU theology: how orthodox, how accountable?, Michael Gilchrist
That seems to be basically the position of many teacher education graduates after being fed a diet of ACU theology units to judge from the recent ACU survey of student teacher beliefs (see AD2000 May 2000 p.
684 - Mar 2001 - How Archbishop Pell will implement Statement on Women in the Church
Formally request each Catholic theological faculty and adult education centre in the Archdiocese of Melbourne to explore the theological and pastoral implications of the Report and the bishops response through public lectures seminars and learned papers.
685 - Mar 2001 - Editorial: ACU theology: prompt action needed, Peter Westmore
In it he instructed bishops conferences to ensure that teachers and theologians in Catholic universities and other higher education institutes were faithful to Church teachings as defined by the Magisterium.
686 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Science and Christianity (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
Johnson while Newman Graduate Education (7 Kambora Ave Frenchs Forest 2086) is another good source of eye-opening information.
687 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Church in China (letter), Angela Martello
Does he not know that faithful Catholics are routinely arrested tortured and sentenced to re-education camps.
688 - Feb 2001 - Religious persecution continues in Vietnam, AD2000 Report
At that time the communist leaders either closed or imposed strict controls on places of worship and sent many religious leaders to re-education camps.
689 - Feb 2001 - Liturgy: when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' make an impact?, Michael Gilchrist
Seminary reforms The overall liturgical picture is no doubt improving - and will further improve - in dioceses where seminary reforms have been occurring with future priests receiving a sound liturgical education.
690 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
Having supplied religious education texts to schools and parish catechists for the past five years one thing has been abundantly clear to this writer: that faithful and culturally relevant Catholic primary school resources are hard to come by.
691 - Feb 2001 - New RE texts launched in Melbourne's Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
In one of the most important initiatives in Catholic religious education in Australia since Vatican II the Melbourne Archdiocese is this year introducing a new series of religion texts into schools and colleges within its boundaries.
692 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
In his address to the bishops before they departed for home John Paul II said regarding the Statement Your meetings with some of the Congregations of the Roman Curia have focused on questions of doctrine and morality the liturgy the role of the Bishop evangelisation and mission the priesthood religious life and Catholic education.
693 - Feb 2001 - Bishop Wilson of Wollongong to be the future Archbishop of Adelaide, AD2000 Report
After studying religious education in New York he was appointed Director of Religious Education for the Maitland Diocese in 1978.
694 - Feb 2001 - Editorial: New religion texts for Melbourne schools, Michael Gilchrist
Elliott the Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education in the Melbourne Archdiocese appointed by Archbishop George Pell has spent the last few years working with a number of experts in the field to develop a series of religion texts covering all grade levels of the primary and secondary schools.
695 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Rainbow Serpent (letter), Hans Klaver
What is the point in confusing those pupils if as one hopes in their religious education classes they are taught that God in Heaven is the Creator of all things?
696 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Serious duties (letter), Myles M. Kehoe
The bishops recent Social Justice Statement could better be called injustice - to priests men and most women while the performance of Australian Catholic University in the education and training of Catholic teachers for Catholic schools is deplorable.
697 - Dec 2000 - Letters: 'Creating Our Future' (letter), Patricia Byrnes
Five representatives from every parish were invited plus people from various groups within Catholic education.
698 - Dec 2000 - G.K. Chesterton: fresh and accessible today, Dale Ahlquist
I felt that my education was just beginning.
699 - Dec 2000 - ACU - when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' be implemented?, Michael Gilchrist
These considerations assume particular significance given that Australian Catholic University is the largest single training body for teachers in Catholic primary and secondary schools - indeed a major part of ACUs function continues to be teacher education.
700 - Nov 2000 - Books: Martyrs And Saints In Catholic Liturgy by K.G. Mortensen, Michael Daniel
This work would not only be a useful resource for those who attend weekday Mass regularly but also for those involved in liturgy preparation and education.
701 - Nov 2000 - Books: Casta Meretrix: An Essay on the Eccesiology of St Ambrose, Cardinal Biffi, Michael Daniel
In his study of the ecclesiology of St Ambrose Cardinal Giacomo Biffi Archbishop of Bologna and member of the Sacred Congregations for the Clergy Catholic Education and Evangelisation of Peoples responds to this assertion.
702 - Nov 2000 - The right to work: central to the Catholic Church's social teaching, Patrick Byrne
First we work to feed ourselves and families to provide for education health housing and retirement needs.
703 - Nov 2000 - Fr Francis Harman RIP: bioethicist of distinction, Dr Joseph Santamaria
Among these tasks was a heavy involvement in the development of Catholic education in Australia.
704 - Nov 2000 - Irish missionary sisters combat AIDS in Africa
With Sr Kay Lawlor Sr Duggan founded Youth Alive an organisation of youth clubs which promotes Education for Life behaviour change.
705 - Nov 2000 - Toowoomba's 'Creating Our Future' - or a recipe for further decline?, Michael Gilchrist
Developing and updating faith education and spirituality .
706 - Oct 2000 - An authentic Christian spirituality grounded in objective revelation, Michael Daniel
Revelation At the same time many criticisms of aspects of religious education teaching have drawn attention to an overemphasis on the affective elements of Christianity.
707 - Oct 2000 - How language transforms a Christian society into a secular society, Audrey English
In a mistaken idea of reaching children at their own level religious education often reduces religious concepts to the extent that the supernatural becomes nonexistent.
708 - Oct 2000 - How orthodox are Australian Catholic University's professorial staff?, Eamonn Keane
The Head of the School of Theology at the ACU in Sydney Dr Laurie Woods prepared a work titled The Christian Story for use in various Scripture units included in Religious Education courses since 1995.
709 - Oct 2000 - Contentious Social Justice Statement on women's participation published, Michael Gilchrist
Everywhere a Catholic looks today women are visibly exercising responsibilities at all levels of the Churchs life (short of the priesthood and hierarchy): editors of Catholic papers directors of Catholic Education Offices professors at seminaries and theology institutes directors of university campuses facilitators of renewal programs - the list goes on.
710 - Oct 2000 - The Salesians' impact in East Timor, Br Marcal Lopes SDB
The Salesians have six parishes catering for about 200000 people and apart from this are mostly engaged in education.
711 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Most importantly he has a clear understanding and love for the educational and spiritual mission of Franciscan University.
712 - Sep 2000 - Reflection: Religious life: death or re-birth?, Fr Benedict Groeschel
There are other eminently worthy apostolates such as the desperate need for authentic Catholic education.
713 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
The fundamental aim of Catholic education is to help students follow Christs first and greatest commandment - You must love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind .
714 - Sep 2000 - The 'Statement of Conclusions' and liturgy: what needs to be done, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
First of all there is a need to equip the practising liturgist with professional skills starting in the seminary with continuing education during priestly ministry.
715 - Sep 2000 - Editorial: East Timor: a privilege and an opportunity, Peter Westmore
One of the finest centres of education the Polytechnic in Dili was totally destroyed.
716 - Aug 2000 - Reflection: Re-discovering holiness will lead to more priestly vocations: Cardinal Daly, Cardinal Cahal Daly
A great need for all followers of Christ nowadays is to work and to pray for a society more conducive to and more appreciative of chastity and therefore more conducive to and more appreciative of celibacy for priests Training in chastity is an essential part of Christian education for children and young people in todays world.
717 - Aug 2000 - A tribute to Cardinal John O'Connor, Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
You discussed with me the possibility of starting a Catechetical Institute within your department of education.
718 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
A noteworthy feature of Catholicism particularly in Western countries over the past 30 years has been the existence of liberal Catholic establishments in key sectors of the local churches - in the leadership of larger religious orders diocesan bureaucracies numerous areas of education publishing and communications and so on.
719 - Aug 2000 - Rockhampton: shuffling deck chairs on the 'Titanic', AD2000 Report
Some of this feedback included affirmations that Faith is not priest- centered changes should be accepted We are the Church Community is the heart of our Church and faith people should be trained for lay ministry and there should be ongoing education of parish communities.
720 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The 50-page document is the result of five months research in Hallam Diocese and reveals that religious education teachers face classes where 80 percent of pupils almost never attend Sunday Mass.
721 - Jul 2000 - Educating Catholics in a secular culture: a Canadian Internet initiative, J. Fraser Field
Vatican IIs Declaration on Christian Education directs Catholic schools to integrate the Christian faith into the whole pattern of human life in all its aspects.
722 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Respect the inalienable rights of parents to impart sexual education to their children.
723 - Jul 2000 - New campus of John Paul II Institute set to open in Melbourne, AD2000 Report
The Institute is part of a relatively recent worldwide trend to establish new centres of higher education directly linked to the Holy See.
724 - Jul 2000 - Editorial: Orthodoxy the 'wave of the future', Michael Gilchrist
This crisis of belief among student teachers reflects a deep-seated malaise in the Catholic education system regarding the teaching of the Faith - particularly at the secondary school level.
725 - Jun 2000 - One of the great bishops of modern times, Michael Gilchrist
Cardinal OConnors career The future Cardinal grew up in Philadelphia attending state elementary schools before receiving his high school education from the Christian Brothers at West Catholic High.
726 - May 2000 - Letters: Nothing to do? (letter), Frank Mobbs
They are superiors of religious orders chief administrators of Catholic hospitals directors of Catholic Education Offices professors of theology in Catholic universities and seminaries canon lawyers chancellors of dioceses principals of some of the largest schools in the nation.
727 - May 2000 - Understanding the Incarnation, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Elliott is Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education Melbourne Archdiocese.
728 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
Briefly stated the main point of a Catholic education should be to lay down the foundations of a good life and of a good death.
729 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Many have completed undergraduate education and quite a few have gained some experience in professional life before entering the seminary.
730 - May 2000 - Australian Catholic University student survey, Michael Gilchrist
Professor McLaughlins findings gain further significance given concerns about the condition of Catholic education expressed in the Statement of Conclusions almost 18 months ago (see February 1999 AD2000).
731 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
Many suggest that these highly trained converts pursue employment in diocesan or parish positions such as director of evangelisation or Christian education and in many cases this has been possible.
732 - Apr 2000 - Impressive gathering of young people attend TMC Summer School, Michael Daniel
Mgr Peter Elliott Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education spoke about the Incarnation with a particular focus on the prologue of St Johns Gospel.
733 - Apr 2000 - Editorial: For what should the Church apologise?, Michael Gilchrist
Some might even consider the Churchs lack of early alertness and action in the face of threats to unborn Australians or neglect of sound religious education in her schools as fitter subjects for apologies.
734 - Mar 2000 - Reflection: Does Lent retain its spiritual meaning today?, Mary Kenny
Who could oppose education program emergency relief clean running water the provision of seeds and fertiliser?
735 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC
If there is a false foundation to the ethos and guiding practice of the Catholic school students in it are being given an education not based on truth.
736 - Mar 2000 - New York Scripture seminar affirms reliability of New Testament, Eamonn Keane
Whitehead former US Assistant Secretary of Education and author of several books stated that in order to serve the Church biblical exegetes must forge their scholarly judgements in accordance with three criteria which are: i) the unity of the whole of Scripture ii) the Tradition of the Church and iii) the analogy of faith.
737 - Mar 2000 - How the Salesians are helping to rebuild East Timor, Br Michael Lynch
The Salesian focus is on education - they aim to help provide children and young people with skills necessary for the growth and development of their country and to be self-reliant.
738 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Challenge (Canadian religious monthly) Catholic education on the Internet Resources made available for teachers Concerned about the growing secularism in public school textbooks which are often the only textbooks available for Catholic schools as well a group of educators academics and priests has joined together to form the US-based Catholic Educators Resource Centre.
739 - Feb 2000 - Tom Monaghan: the tycoon who sold his assets to serve the Church, Patrick Ward
Monaghan has targeted four key areas: Catholic education at primary secondary and tertiary levels; Catholic media including Catholic radio stations; pro-life politics; and Legatus an association of Catholic business leaders.
740 - Feb 2000 - Lay teachers: backbone of the Catholic system, Tom Kendell
Tom Kendell former principal of Sacred Heart College Oakleigh and now an educational consultant pays tribute to one such individual who typifies the qualities of the many others on whom the future of Catholic education depends.
741 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
US Catholic universities Bishops endorse tighter controls The US Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved new norms for Catholic higher education on 17 November 1999 by a margin of 223-31.
742 - Dec 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Matthys addresses RE co-ordinators Proclaim teach and pass on the Catholic Faith Bishop Luc Matthys recently appointed to Armidale NSW addressed a meeting of religious education coordinators in his diocese.
743 - Dec 1999 - Stress Christianity's uniqueness says Pope, Father Bernardo Cerveller
The means for addressing this are to teach the Churchs social doctrine; to create new solidarity between underdeveloped and affluent; commitment to education and health care offered with a clear Christian identity; international and inter- religious efforts for peace.
744 - Nov 1999 - The Jesuits: 150 years of ministry in Australia, Elizabeth Ledlin
Their influence in Catholic thought and education has been unparalled.
745 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The new religious education curriculum for the schools of the Melbourne Archdiocese is well advanced.
746 - Nov 1999 - New international Catholic university opens Internet campus, AD2000 Report
Following an initiative by a number of US Catholic academics concerned at the condition of Catholic higher education the International Catholic University (ICU) was launched in 1994 with strong emphasis on fidelity to the Churchs teachings and doctrines.
747 - Oct 1999 - The UN's war on population confronts religious principles, Stephen Hitchings
4 million in 1994 including money donated to provide children with food shelter health and education - to distributing contraceptives and lobbying governments to pass pro-abortion legislation.
748 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Melbournes new RE syllabus on track Draft doctrinal overview sent to Catholic schools All of Melbournes Catholic primary schools are receiving a draft version of the Doctrinal Overview for the Religious Education text syllabus at primary levels.
749 - Sep 1999 - Education: Teaching the right values: a challenge for Catholic schools, Greg Craven
My starting point is to try to recall something about my own education and values: I was taught by the Presentation Sisters at primary school then by the Christian Brothers at St Kevins Toorak.
750 - Sep 1999 - Cardinal O'Connor's tribute to noted priest-author, Cardinal John O'Connor
Previously as director of religious education for the Archdiocese of New York and esteemed by His Eminence Cardinal Spellman he developed a major reputation as a student and champion of labour.
751 - Aug 1999 - Archbishop Pell celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, Gerard McManus
Another 10 priests attended the Solemn Mass in choir including Monsignor Peter Elliott the Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education in the Melbourne Archdiocese and an international authority on Catholic liturgy.
752 - Aug 1999 - Order of Australia for pregnancy counselling centre's founder, AD2000 Report
The President and Honorary Executive Director of Open Doors Counselling and Educational Services Jenny Kearney was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division on 14 June 1999.
753 - Jul 1999 - A successful French seminary that follows the Curé of Ars tradition, Francis Davidson
The resultant lack of basic education made study difficult for John as he prepared for the priesthood.
754 - Jul 1999 - Religious education reform in the Melbourne Archdiocese under attack, John S. Webster
The latest controversy highlighted in a recent in-depth report in The Sunday Age (23 May 1999) centres on the Archbishops planned reforms to the religious education curriculum.
755 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Baptist University to become Catholic Father Joseph Fessios significant role The Latin American campus of the Baptist University of Mobile Alabama will become one of the best Catholic Universities in Central America thanks to the financial help of the Catholic pizza mogul Tom Monaghan last May according to a former Nicaraguan education minister.
756 - Jul 1999 - Editorial: An appeal that deserves our support
00 per month would cover the education of one student however very few families are able to make any contribution at all.
757 - Jun 1999 - The Rosary for Youth
It could also serve as a resource for schools or adult faith education programs.
758 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
In religious education every teacher is a missionary.
759 - Jun 1999 - Fr. Frank Andersen's new book on the Eucharist: how Catholic is it?, Des O'Hagan
Together with former priest Michael Morwood Fr Anderson has run Adult Faith Education programs in Catholic parishes as part of a new phase of seeking converts among people in the pews to new Church perspectives.
760 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News Brief Catholic teachers reminded of priorities Be witnesses to Christ says Bishop Manning In March Bishop Kevin Manning of Parramatta celebrated the annual Catholic education Mass at St Patricks Church Blacktown addressing more than 1400 teachers.
761 - Jun 1999 - Bishops Conference resolves crisis over 'Statement of Conclusions', Michael Gilchrist
No doubt these bishops are well aware of the uphill battle they face if substantial progress is to be achieved in remedying deep-seated problem areas such as liturgy teacher education and catechetics.
762 - Jun 1999 - Editorial: Bishops address the crisis of faith, Michael Gilchrist
Unless these people are prepared to implement the program even the most dedicated of bishops will find the task of addressing the crisis of faith - especially in areas like religious education - well nigh impossible to achieve.
763 - May 1999 - Association of Catholic Families: meeting challenges to today's family, Chris and Mary Clare Meney
Speakers have included Archbishop (then Bishop) George Pell Monsignor Peter Elliott (Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education) and Mary Helen Woods (Australian Family Association Vice-President).
764 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
Archbishop Mannix was an intellectual scholar man of prayer international figure educationalist orator and wit.
765 - May 1999 - US Dominican nun brings the 'New Cosmology' to New Zealand, Bernard Moran
The Farm is a project of the Dominican Congregation affiliated with Global Education Associates itself linked with Call To Action.
766 - May 1999 - The 'Statement of Conclusions': how can religious education be reformed?, Michael Daniel
In the Archdiocese of Melbourne for example a series of religious education textbooks based upon the Catechism of the Catholic Church is under preparation.
767 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News Brief Philippines Bishops on sex education Parental rights should come first The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has spoken out forcefully against the Governments use of sex education modules in primary and secondary schools.
768 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
Even thirteen years in the Catholic education system can leave an eighteen-year-old Catholic grossly ignorant of his or her faith and moral tradition.
769 - Apr 1999 - A new R.E. consultancy service for the Church
Previously a Catholic school principal in Melbourne and later head of Religious Education in the diocese of Wagga Wagga Gerard Gaskin has recently opened business as a consultant.
770 - Apr 1999 - What the census statistics on religious affiliations reveal, Michael Gilchrist
One is constantly aware of how the mass media advertising and entertainment industries and higher education sectors treat religious issues to appreciate the strength of No Religion in pivotal opinion-shaping sectors - which in turn impact on the political processes.
771 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service Latest research on Catholic student teachers 34 percent weekly Mass attendance better than national average of 18 percent Research has recently been completed on first and final year student teachers at Australian Catholic University by Professor Denis McLaughlin head of the department of Educational Foundations at the Brisbane campus of ACU.
772 - Apr 1999 - Editorial: Many matters in need of attention, Peter Westmore
Among other things it highlighted the important role of bishops in upholding orthodoxy; called for continuing formation of priests to develop their spiritual life; strongly encouraged the active promotion of vocations to the priesthood and religious life; demanded that associations of priests and religious superiors accept the Churchs magisterium; called for an end to abuses especially at Mass and in the Sacrament of Penance; and called for the strengthening of the Catholic content of Catholic education.
773 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
He also put in place strong vocations and lay ministry formation programs as well as a complete diocesan system of Catholic education for the Rapid City diocese.
774 - Mar 1999 - John Paul II's successful fourth visit to Mexico, AD2000 Report
Other subjects to receive detailed attention in The Church in America included education the family the rights of ethnic minorities - especially Indians and Afro-Americans.
775 - Mar 1999 - Editorial: After the Statement of Conclusions, Michael Gilchrist
liturgical abuses poor catechetical programs unsatisfactory teacher education in religious areas and the public dissent by some priests religious and theologians.
776 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
Your meetings with some of the Congregations of the Roman Curia have focused on questions of doctrine and morality the liturgy the role of the Bishop evangelisation and mission the priesthood religious life and Catholic education.
777 - Dec 1998 - John Paul II's new encyclical 'Faith and Reason' analysed, Hayden Ramsay
A final reason for the Popes plea to the bishops of the Church for a renewal of philosophy concerns education.
778 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
Former deputy directors of Catholic education jailed Brisbane Church officials plead guilty to sex offences Late last October Fr Ronald McKiernan the former deputy director of Catholic Education for the Brisbane Archdiocese was sentenced to three years prison to be suspended after 12 months after he pleaded guilty to 15 offences of assaults on males indecent dealing with boys under 17 and indecent dealing with boys under 14 that took place between 1964-1977 when Fr McKiernan was either a parish priest a chaplain at various Catholic schools or a scout master.
779 - Oct 1998 - Teresa-Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): new Carmelite Saint, Tracey Rowland
Her major contribution to the intellectual life of pre-War European Catholicism related to the education of women.
780 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC
Some Catholic educational leaders blame other educational agencies outside the school for the apparently spiralling downward direction of the religious development of Catholic school students.
781 - Aug 1998 - Decline in priests 'an opportunity for growth!' says Townsville's Bishop, Michael Gilchrist
All this re-education could be more trouble than it was worth given more urgent issues to be addressed.
782 - Aug 1998 - Pope's new Apostolic Letter puts theological dissenters on notice
These errors have been especially prevalent over the past 30 years in many of the Churchs higher education bodies such as seminaries theology institutes and universities as well as in a host of publications.
783 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
An Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education in Melbourne is the direct delegate of Archbishop Pell with executive oversight for all Catholic religious education in the schools parishes and catechetical centres of the Archdiocese.
784 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
Prime Minister John Howard with Archbishop DArcy and Cardinal Clancy after the Funeral Mass (photos: John Casamento) Catholic cultures His personal story is a wonderful example of the openness of Australian society of the interplay of two different Catholic cultures; of the capacity of the Irish Australian Catholic education system then without government funds to promote social mobility and build on the strengths of Italian faith and family.
785 - Apr 1998 - AD2000's tenth anniversary: an appraisal, Peter Westmore
Awkward but necessary questions which many diocesan papers prefer not to ask are posed regularly in AD2000 on liturgical abuses the quality of religious education in Catholic schools the credentials of overseas speakers or proposals for priestless parishes.
786 - Mar 1998 - Reflection: Young Catholics: why 'updating' the Church will not bring them back, Rocco Loiacono
The simple fact is young people are not uplifted by the nanny religious education classes at school nor even by pale imitations of sixties and seventies pops.
787 - Feb 1998 - Vatican Instruction addresses an 'inadequate theology' of priesthood, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
In directing the energies of the laity towards the service of the sanctuary during the liturgy as is often the case with programs of lay involvement attention is diverted from the real goal of lay activity which should be the winning of the world for Christ: sanctifying the temporal order in family life social and political involvement the work place education health care etc.
788 - Dec 1997 - Education: Tom Kendell of Sacred Heart College: 'an exceptional Catholic educator', Richard Rymarz
Tom is embarking on a career as an educational consultant.
789 - Nov 1997 - Books: 'Tomorrow's Creed' as drafted by Fr Michael Morwood, Frank Mobbs
Indeed we can be grateful for these words which bishops Catholic Education Offices school principals and parish priests might like to ponder on as they continue to permit and invite Fr Morwood to persuade Catholics to adopt tomorrows Creed.
790 - Nov 1997 - Editorial: Can the tide of religious illiteracy be reversed?
In theory the availability of such texts for each grade level would not only ease the task for teachers in planning their lessons but also provide a convenient reference point for parents anxious to help in their childrens religious education.
791 - Aug 1997 - Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia: an update, Michael Gilchrist
Among the earlier presentations the familiar feminist litany was delivered by two nuns from the Catholic Education Office: Women make up most of the Church but in serving capacity.
792 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
Greater physical comforts more years of education the marvels of modern health care overseas travel for many and fabulous salaries for a few.
793 - Jul 1997 - Which Catholic women will the Australian bishops listen to?, Michael Gilchrist
Many of these presentations noted that Catholic women already played a major role in the life of the Church and expressed strong support for existing Church teachings while calling for a stronger focus on improved religious education in Catholic schools and more vocations to the priesthood.
794 - May 1997 - Education: Catholic schools problems can be solved, Tom Kendell
but hard administrative decisions are needed The Catholic education system in Australia educates 700000 children in 1350 primary and 350 secondary schools.
795 - Apr 1997 - Brisbane Archdiocese booklets: how to make parishes 'zoom along', Michael Gilchrist
They are the work of the Offices of Adult Education and Parish Review and Planning within the office of Brisbane Catholic Education.
796 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
There is no hint of any serious re-thinking about approaches to vocations promotion improved education on the meaning of the priesthood in Catholic schools or a review of seminary training.
797 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Adelaide: Road to renewal? Or decline?, Michael Gilchrist
To bring back the priests who are married; Work within the system - only a matter of time before the laity emerge as leaders of the Church at the local level; Follow-up inclusivity communication empowerment outreach challenge; Opportunities for our pastors to refresh and to change with the times; Seminarians to spend time in those parishes where the priest(s) are really on the ball; Educate our people to a new way of thinking; Dispel the myths of an outdated Church; Liturgical education reform; Parish - inclusive nature reach out non-judgementally; Empower people to own or live their faith - Basic Ecclesial Communities?
798 - Sep 1996 - Fr Joseph Fessio in Australia: Principles of genuine liturgical reform, Michael Gilchrist
To those familiar with Fr Joseph Fessios work in publishing higher education and liturgy the success of his lecture tour of Australia last July would have come as no surprise (see July AD2000).
799 - Aug 1996 - Oxford Declaration on Liturgy: intentions of Vatican II 'frustrated', Christopher Quinn
Our work should be sustained by prayer education and study.
800 - Aug 1996 - How to overcome the shortage of priests, Fr Kevin Dillon PP
This pattern has produced 32 priests in three years which Fr Gould attributes to prayers from the dioceses Poor Clare nuns strong Catholic education and family programs and Bishop Keatings own enthusiasm for vocations.
801 - Jul 1996 - Father Joseph Fessio's lecture tour of Australia, Mark First
After two years at USF he founded on campus the St Ignatius Institute to offer a traditional Jesuit liberal arts education to the Universitys students along with an affirmative approach to Church teachings.
802 - Jun 1996 - McBrien's 'Catholicism': what the US Bishops criticised
Catholicism had been singled out for such critical review said the Archbishop precisely from the point of view of its wide use as a text for adult education diaconal formation and introductory theology.
803 - Mar 1996 - New Vatican document vindicates concerns about classroom sex education
AD2000 REPORT The Pontifical Council for the Family has recently issued a document titled The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education Within the Family.
804 - Dec 1995 - Beijing UN Conference on Women - How Holy See took on the feminist agenda, Rita Joseph
The Holy See supported them in their call for new and additional funds to be made available for basic education and health programs for women.
805 - Nov 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - II - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
Is it Englands duty in India to try to elevate the Indian people to raise them socially to train them politically to promote their progress in material prosperity in education and morality; or is it to be the be all and end all of her rule to maintain a precarious power over what Mr Branson calls a subject race with a profound hatred of their subjection?
806 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
John Logie Bairds invention of television in 1926 has revolutionised the spread of news and views more than any other single factor since the invention of printing by Johann Gutenberg in Germany in about 1440; the only possible rival is the introduction of universal primary education.
807 - Oct 1995 - Books: The Battle for the American Church (Revisited), by Msgr George A. Kelly, Michael Gilchrist
is the parlous spiritual state of Catholic higher education with few of the over 200 Catholic universities and colleges deserving of the label Catholic.
808 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
In Gladstones first government he was Lord President of the Council 1868-1873 and as such much of his effort went to the passage of the Education Act of 1870 which established universal elementary education in Britain and Ireland while supporting the existing voluntary church schools.
809 - Sep 1995 - Alexander Rzewuski (1893-1983): The Catholic Church viewed with 'fresh eyes', Fr Peter Knowles OP
He differed in religious experience family background education and artistic talents.
810 - Sep 1995 - Saints and heroes: where the difference lies, Lawrence Cross
Observations on Martyr-Kelly controversy Following a critical analysis of the Sydney Archdiocesan Lenten Program Easter People by Dr Philippa Martyr of the University of Tasmania in the May 1995 AD2000 Sr Gretchen Kelly RSCJ of the Catholic Adult Education Centre Sydney wrote a defence of the program.
811 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
Later in her writings on the vocation of women Edith would recall her childhood and the impact of her mothers example: At our house there was no question of principles of education - we simply read the open book of our mothers heart to know how we should behave.
812 - May 1995 - Lincoln, Nebraska: how a Catholic diocese was built
The Bishop has kept sex education out of Catholic elementary schools while chastity training is taught in high schools as the Bishop explains with parental involvement and with a very strong emphasis on educating wills as well as intellects and on providing a strong pro-life and pro-Humanae Vitae orientation to students.
813 - May 1995 - Editorial: Re-defining Christianity through substitution, B.A. Santamaria
Closer to home a widely used 1995 Lenten parish discussion program emanating from the Catholic Adult Education Centre Sydney (see analysis on p.
814 - Apr 1995 - New Melbourne R.E. Guidelines: an improvement on the old, Michael Gilchrist
The launch of the new Guidelines for Religious Education of Students in the Archdiocese of Melbourne on March 1 1995 was a major event for the Catholic Church in Australia.
815 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Here his high school education stood him in good stead.
816 - Feb 1995 - Education: How to keep Catholic schools 'Catholic', Tom Kendell
While many Catholic schools provide such significant essentials of education as academic results discipline and character development these can also be obtained in good government schools.
817 - Dec 1994 - RE syllabus based on new Catechism: Wagga Wagga diocese sets pace for Australia, Bishop George Pell
) has just produced We Belong to the Lord a new religious education syllabus for primary children.
818 - Dec 1994 - Cardinal Hume: the new Catechism must be implemented, Simon Matthews
Simon Matthews AD2000s British correspondent teaches Religious Education and Theology in a London Catholic High School.
819 - Oct 1994 - An Australian's impressions of an orthodox U.S. Catholic college, Renee Ryan
Of these several are recent foundations - the initiatives of lay scholars disturbed at levels of dissent and secularism in Catholic higher education.
820 - Oct 1994 - Canberra-Goulburn diocese's 'Gender Inclusive Guidelines', Colin Jory
Shackling Catholic education to the feminist power-push Late last year the Canberra-Goulburn archdiocesan periodical Catholic Voice quoted Mr Glenn Roff Chairperson of the CEO Gender Equity Committee as boasting that his dioceses Gender Inclusive Language Guidelines were so well received by the N.
821 - Aug 1994 - Editorial: Now that the rebellion is in the open - what?, B.A. Santamaria
The education system has consequently produced two entire generations of religious illiterates.
822 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin
The episcopate of today is no longer burdened and obstructed by defective theological education or by its social place and the resulting entanglements in politics.
823 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
In the English-speaking First World a second difficulty will be particularly acute: many of our most dedicated faith-educationists do not believe the CCC to be a providential initiative at all; they simply do not believe in a systematically doctrinal catechetic.
824 - Mar 1994 - Townsville Mass attendance document - 'Where have all the parishioners gone?'
Nowhere in the document is there any hint that reforming policies pursued over the past 20 years in liturgy religious education seminary and religious life biblical studies and moral teaching might be contributors to the disaster represented by the Mass attendance statistics.
825 - Feb 1994 - New studies raise question: How 'Catholic' are Catholic schools?, Michael Gilchrist
Br Flynn is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religious Education Australian Catholic University Strathfield N.
826 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
The reason is that even more profoundly than anything they learn in the process of formal education than any conclusions which they reach as the result of rational argument ordinary people are influenced in their religious beliefs much more by what they repeatedly and continuously see and do in the course of worship than what they learn by intellectual exertion: Lex orandi lex credendi.
827 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
In the area of Catholic education the Diocese of Lincoln operates six central Catholic high schools 23 parochial elementary schools and one school for the mentally handicapped.
828 - Jul 1993 - Brother Andrew speaks out on the Catholic crisis, Brother Andrew
Rather the sad result is too often the slavery and sheep-like acceptance that we have - powerfully beamed at us by the mass media and education policies.
829 - Jul 1993 - U.S. Bishop solves vocations crisis, Michael Gilchrist
Litmus test Since coming to Peoria Bishop Myers has relocated one-fourth of his priests shifted Newman Centre chaplains and overhauled diocesan religious education whose directors resigned after an outside consultant from Franciscan University of Steubenville Ohio wrote a critique of the program which stated that it had been gutted of the most salient features of vibrant Catholicism.
830 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
Ultimately the successful implementation of the Catechism will depend on whether fundamental reforms to the Churchs educational structures actually follow its publication.
831 - Mar 1993 - Books: A review of the 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' (French Edition), Fr Peter Joseph
Drawing from the riches of both the Eastern and Western traditions of the Universal Church it is a truly universal catechism that can serve as a reference point for all lesser catechisms and religious curricula while being used itself as a text book in seminaries teachers colleges universities and in advanced adult education.
832 - Mar 1993 - The Myth of Latin America's 'Basic Christian Communities', Paul Gray
So it is with one of the commonest myths in the world of Western religious education - the myth of liberation theology.
833 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
Associated with this push have been Weaklands highly controversial policies and views on abortion homosexuality AIDS education sex education clerical pedophilia and feminism.
834 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
Now multiply that across human experience - marriage breakdowns personal breakdowns professional breakdowns breakdown in the education of children.
835 - Aug 1992 - Surveys highlight decline of mainline Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Tom Doyle Director of the Catholic Education Office Victoria admits in his Preface to Sponsoring Faith that readers may find the authors conclusions disturbing while the authors conclude that our measures reveal a religious profile .
836 - Aug 1992 - Editorial: The graph points downwards, B.A. Santamaria
The fact that the preface to the book is written by Fr Tom Doyle Director of Melbournes Catholic Education Office is a sufficient indication that the results disclosed by the research are accepted as reliable by the government and not merely by the opposition.
837 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Since Vatican II with increased emphasis on adult religious education more Catholics than ever have come under the influence of scholars and academics - many from overseas - representing a wide variety of theological disciplines and stances.
838 - Apr 1992 - Sexist language: theological mumbo-jumbo, Frank Mobbs
At that time - with the Soviet Union disintegrating and a third of Africans imperilled by AIDS and a million Australians out of work - at that time the Queensland Catholic Education Commission managed to focus on the really big problem of sexist discriminatory language.
839 - Mar 1992 - Sin: Shakespeare got it right, Susan Moore
9; Dr Susan Moore is a Research Fellow in the Education Policy Unit of the Institute of Public Affairs Sydney and a regular contributor to journals and newspapers.
840 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
With 30 years experience in Catholic secondary and tertiary education Michael Gilchrist is the author of several books on contemporary Catholicism including Rome or the Bush and Catholicism into the 90s and assistant editor of AD2000.
841 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
The transmission of the Catholic culture even within our best families is no longer semi-automatic; youth remain the most important challenge and too much emphasis on adult education for the middle-aged can be an escape from the hurly-burly the opposition experienced when preaching the full gospel to questioning or hostile teenagers.
842 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
The influence of the active nihilists - many in high positions in political business artistic and above all educational life - over the rapidly-growing proportion of those whose lack of belief is merely passive largely explains the disastrous transformation of the attitudes laws and customs relating to the family to business and to politics ever since the Whitlam era.
843 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
A detailed operation in each diocese will review and if necessary increase its commitment to formation education health welfare justice language retention cultural development tribal structures and honouring the Treaty of Waitangi.
844 - May 1991 - Why the 'new' catechetics is flawed, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
I say old because as trends in education go it has been around a long time - and also because it is beginning to wear thin!
845 - Mar 1991 - Editorial: Statistician registers numbers of believers - but what do they believe?, B.A. Santamaria
In both denominations those who take the second position are effectively in control of the greater part of the ecclesiastical bureaucracies especially that section controlling the education of the young.
846 - Feb 1991 - Leading questions for New Zealand's Religious, Sr Micaela Dillon OP
Her special field is Religious Education in which she has extensive experience.
847 - Feb 1991 - How religion fares in the U.S.A. - Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, Michael Gilchrist
In other words despite the respectable American Mass attendance figures many (or most) American Catholics see themselves as belonging to a Church based on private judgement - the community model so much in vogue in renewal programs summer schools and adult education courses - rather than one authoritatively taught and led by the successors of Christ and the Apostles.
848 - Dec 1990 - Books: Australian bishops tell Catholic teachers what to teach, Msgr John P. Kelly
Kelly is parish priest of Garran (Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese) and has had a long and distinguished career in Catholic education.
849 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
Seminary courses Former Rector of Banyo the late Fr Maurice Duffy told the Telegraph reporter in 1981 of the seminary courses: Weve got some mind- blowing attempts by modern scholars to articulate the God question the Man questions the whole notion of education to faith .
850 - Aug 1990 - Editorial: Dissent in Catholic academia is 'out' says Vatican Instruction, B.A. Santamaria
It represented a forthright response to last years Cologne Declaration and to those involved in Catholic higher education who assert that academic freedom should take precedence over orthodoxy.
851 - Jun 1990 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century', Fr John Parsons
There are separate chapters on the sacraments in general and each sacrament in particular on natural theology scepticism the liturgy the priesthood the religious orders Catholic lay movements asceticism Catholic education Church and State the death penalty work and technology the Church and women abortion catechetics and a variety of other topics bringing the book to forty two chapters in all.
852 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
Although my mother only had one year of formal education and my father only five their characters were nevertheless formed by their native Italian culture in which they had lived their lives from the beginning.
853 - Apr 1990 - Architects of failure on the offensive: US theologians 'pan' new Catechism, Michael Gilchrist
To such experts far from representing any catastrophic failure the post-Vatican II efforts to update religious education to reflect the teachings and reforms of the Council have been for the most part successful.
854 - Mar 1990 - Parish assemblies - pluralism or brainwashing?, Michael Gilchrist
The priorities would be clear and urgent: falling Mass attendances empty confessionals the rapid decline of priestly and religious vocations defective catechetics courses a breakdown in family life little understanding and/or observation of the Churchs moral teachings widespread liturgical abuses and much unorthodox content in seminary adult education and teachers college courses.
855 - Feb 1990 - 'Holland of the Pacific'?: Catholicism in New Zealand, John Kennedy OBE
At the September 1986 Conference of the Bishops for instance a session which was supposed to be concerned with ways of promoting the Catholic press turned instead into an attack on the Catholic press for reporting problems which were surfacing in regards to liturgical development the efficacy of Catholic schools the lack of content in religious education ecumenism the emergence of left-wing influences in justice and peace activities and so on.
856 - Feb 1990 - A Tale of Two Universities, Dr Ralph McInerny, Dr Alan Schreck
Together they shed further light on the earlier article about Thomas Aquinas College and the need for discernment by those extending Catholic higher education in Australia especially on the Notre Dame model.
857 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
The establishment of a Catholic University in Western Australia on the model of famed Notre Dame in the United States might have seemed a commendable idea to those unfamiliar with recent developments in American Catholic higher education.
858 - Feb 1990 - Cardinal Newman: a centenary tribute, Dr Frank Mobbs
Newman taught a wiser theology of the laity which visualised an important role for them in the Church with extended responsibilities and education in the faith but not to the extent of occupying the chairs of the Apostles.
859 - Dec 1989 - Can Catholic integrity be recovered?, Colin Jory
We find the traditional synthesis of Catholic belief and the streams of Christian humanism fed by that synthesis quarantined out of the centres of Catholic thought and education and their place occupied by the fashionable secularist cults of our era: behaviourism feminism Marxoid social- engineering and libertarian sex-worship.
860 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
St Clares Catholic primary school Box Hill North in the Archdiocese of Melbourne has addressed itself to the directives of the Holy Father and sought to implement them fully within its religious education curriculum.
861 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
Among the top place getters were Adult Education and Faith Formation Partnership in Ministry Church as Outreach in Mission Remodelling the Church Community and Women in the Church.
862 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
For education was the key to any social and moral advance.
863 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
It is also true that Catholic education is not confined to the school; far more crucial is the role of the family not to mention the local parish and the mass media.
864 - Jul 1989 - Making a revolution by changing the meaning of words, Frank Mobbs
For example Catholic School Studies: a Journal of Education for Australian Catholic Schools carried an article (July 1985) by Professor Monika Hellwig of Georgetown University which had previously been published in the USA.
865 - Jul 1989 - Editorial: No subscriptions under false pretences, B.A. Santamaria
If one combines the crises of doctrine liturgy education into one that one suggests amounts to a general crisis.
866 - Jun 1989 - Australian Catholicism's one million "lost": a sociological analysis, B.A. Santamaria
It is to be found in the field of Catholic education in which not a few Catholic parents have Judged - rightly or wrongly is not the question - that it makes little or no difference as far as religious teaching is concerned whether they send their children to Catholic or Protestant schools.
867 - May 1989 - Catholic educational bureaucracies - what now?, B.A. Santamaria
Kelvin Canavan executive director of schools Catholic Education Office Sydney outlined a different aspect of the Australian problem in a report in the Melbourne Herald (4 April).
868 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
They started all these schools and then the State gradually sort of took over the education of the working classes.
869 - Mar 1989 - Who do they think they are?, B.A. Santamaria
To a substantial degree they their disciples and supporters are in effective control of what one of their associates the feminist theologian Rosemary Ruether has called the switch-points - that is to say the effective as distinct from the nominal government of the Church over the seminaries the education offices the teachers colleges the schools the media.
870 - Feb 1989 - The condition of Catholic teacher training in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
The Catholic Church is no exception particularly in education where especially since the advent of State Aid her administrators professionals specialists and teachers have become de facto participants in the wider government sector; doctrinal purity specific Vatican directives important traditions or Catholic identity have tended to be marginalised or diluted as attention focuses on the latest educational theory capital works programs course accreditations population patterns job vacancies or recent government legislation and policy statements.
871 - Feb 1989 - Editorial: Who are the educational 'experts'?, B.A. Santamaria
Renaissance That the Archbishop entertains legitimate doubts may be deduced from his statement We urgently need a renaissance in the doctrinal dimension of education-in-faith.
872 - Dec 1988 - At a Catholic teachers' college, 'A Parent'
I subscribe to a similar sentiment in respect of those responsible for this dubious program; but point out to those ultimately responsible for Catholic education that surely they cannot be unaware of the first effects that is on the faith of the student teachers; then progressively on innocent unformed minds of children who become victims of misleading and/or equivocal catechesis and so on into the general Catholic community to replace certainty with doubt and/or confusion.
873 - Oct 1988 - A Catholic university for Australia: surely not modelled on Notre Dame?, Michael Gilchrist
In fact of the approximately 240 institutions of higher education in the US claiming the name Catholic scarcely a dozen could be said to be totally loyal to the Magisterium.
874 - Sep 1988 - Decline and fall of the Catholic priesthood, Gary Scarrabelotti
Education versus instinct There are younger clergy who are orthodox by instinct but bereft of Catholic intellectual formation.
875 - Jul 1988 - Home education: a viable alternative, Robert Denahy
Any parent with a reasonable education can easily achieve this much.
876 - Jul 1988 - 'Humanae Vitae' twenty years after, B.A. Santamaria
New government policies had their impact on the pedagogical principles which first entered the state education system and which extended from the secular to the religious field constituted one half of the cause of the present catechetical crisis.
877 - Jun 1988 - A pen picture of American Catholicism, Michael Gilchrist
A small but influential group of very orthodox centres of higher education faces growing demands for places and are sending out each year young men and women of exceptional calibre both in their religious commitment and professional competence.
878 - Nov 2003 - Education: The Catholic Church's one Founder, Fr John O'Neill
879 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Catholic education (letter), Dr Garrick Small
880 - Oct 1999 - Reflection: A Kolbe Quartet, Msgr Peter J. Elliott