Tag: Religious Education
Faithful Catholic witness in schools vital at all levels, expert urges
With the identity of faith based schools under withering scrutiny from parliaments across Australia, Dr Bernadette Mercieca has called for 'faith-based leadership density and spiritual formation of staff'
Remembering Cardinal George Pell’s great vision
As we go through life, we sometimes meet people who we consider to be ‘larger than life’, such is the impression that they make on us.
Pause for Parramatta RE Curriculum
An immediate pause of the draft new curriculum for religious education in the Diocese of Parramatta has been met with reactions including surprise, gratitude...
Joanne Navarra: Our beautiful God led me to teach
Joanne tells about sharing the Good News in schools
As a catechist running religion classes in a Sydney public primary school, Joanne Navarra says her...
A gift from the bush
Children, parents and teachers across the Wilcannia-Forbes diocese are discovering (or rediscovering) Christ
Kindergarten is not where you would expect to find silence and quiet...
Bishop Macbeth-Green launches “groundbreaking” RE program
A new religious education curriculum for the diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes is touching the hearts and minds of students as well as those of their parents, principals, teachers and clergy.
The Educating...
Bishop calls for calm on Parramatta RE
Maronite prelate urges prudence online amid media flurry
Maronite Catholic Bishop Charbel-Antoine Tarabay has defended the Diocese of Parramatta’s controversial religious education plans for next year and called for calm from anxious parents.
“Despite some media...
Religious education uproar
Parramatta is standing by its new RE syllabus
Despite controversy over its new draft religious education curriculum, the Diocese of Parramatta’s schools office will continue...
Monica Doumit: Suffer the little children
Well, it wouldn’t be a new school semester if the Greens didn’t again try to push Special Religious Education (SRE) out of public schools.
Greens...
Theresa brings a fresh outlook
When Theresa Ardler graduated from Australian Catholic University with a Masters of Religious Education last week she wore an item that powerfully linked her...
Murray Norman: SRE is vital in our schools
A recently released report has broken new ground in finding that Special Religious Education in our schools provides a host of additional benefits, including...
Monica Doumit: How to make non-existent things illegal
Earlier this week, a dear friend suggested that I might in future be the patron saint of having to listen to the unbearable. While...
