Tag: Catholic Education
The Wilcannia-Forbes’ makes its “Way”
Catholic Education Wilcannia-Forbes has launched "The Wilcannia-Forbes Way" at four significant cluster conferences across the diocese in Broken Hill, Cobar, Parkes, and Deniliquin.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher homily: Building up the Kingdom through education
This is the edited text for the Homily for the Sydney Catholic Schools Commissioning Mass for Beginning Teachers, Principals and the New Executive Director, Thursday of the 1st week of Lent, St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 13 March 2025.
Pope Francis honours three Sydney Catholics with knighthoods
Vice president of the Australian Association of the Order of Malta, Daniel Kwok, and former chief executive officer of Macquarie Group Limited, Nicholas Moore AO, each received a distinguished papal honour at a ceremony at St Mary’s Cathedral chapter hall on 12 December.
Pope: Catholic education must be committed to service
More than 200 people from 56 Catholic institutions of higher education participated in the 7-8 November symposium in Rome on the theme "Transforming Higher Education from Within."
Keeping (or Making) Catholic Education Great
What are the five essential “marks” of Catholic education? One US bishop who converted to Catholicism while studying the Great Books, suggests there are five. Here George Weigel adds his own reflections on each.
Danielle Cronin named new Executive Director of Sydney Catholic Schools
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has named Danielle Cronin as the new Executive Director of Sydney Catholic Schools, overseeing a network of 147 Catholic primary and secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney.
Catholic students told to be “apostles of reality”
Young Catholics are craving a deeper engagement with secular culture, and were encouraged in their hopes at this year’s Australian Catholic Students Association conference at Hunter’s Hill last weekend. Bishop Columba Macbeth-Green OSPPE exhorted students to become the “apostles of reality” the world of today desperately needs.
AI could prompt “reimagining” of HSC, schools CEO says
Artificial intelligence could prompt a “reimagining” of the Higher School Certificate in New South Wales, CSNSW CEO Dallas McInerney told educators at the 2024 Education Law Symposium on 15 July, with the standards authority contemplating continuous examination throughout years 11 and 12
Our society does not value wonder, but Catholic educators must
Catholic education is not merely about the acquisition of economically useful knowledge and skills, but about orienting students towards life’s goal of union with God, and equipping them for that journey, writes University of Notre Dame Executive Dean David de Carvalho.
Pope Francis: Education goes beyond academic instruction
Pope Francis welcomed members of the board of trustees and other leaders from the Augustinian-sponsored Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, to the Vatican 10 May, to discuss the importance of an education that helps young people contribute to the community.
Prayer shouldn’t be our best-kept secret
One of my former students converted to Islam because he found that the regularity of Muslim prayer gave him inner peace and a sense of purpose. Far too many ex-Catholics abandon the faith without ever having encountered the depths of our own prayer tradition, writes Anthony Cleary
Fifteen years of faith-filled service
A global search will commence for a new Executive Director for Sydney Catholic Schools following the decision of Mr Tony Farley not to continue in the role at the end of his five-year term.
