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1 - Dec 2015 - Education: Religious education: parents' responsibility or school's?, Fr Pat Stratford
Perhaps there could be specialist teachers for religious education not simply the class teacher who may have very little interest in the subject.
2 - 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.
3 - 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.
4 - Mar 2015 - The parish priest and parish school, Fr John O'Neill
Presuming we have maintained Catholic orthodoxy in ourselves it is incumbent upon us especially in these times when vague content and ineffective teaching methods have characterised religious education programs to insist on and see to the proper training of children in our glorious Catholic Faith.
5 - Mar 2015 - Challenging radical Islam, John A. Azumah
Religious education includes training in the use of weapons.
6 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Roger Bolton who presents the Radio 4 program Feedback also added that some atheist teachers are unsympathetic to religious education.
7 - 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.
8 - 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.
9 - 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.
10 - 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.
11 - 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.
12 - Nov 2013 - Schools: The future of Catholic education, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
Prayer at the beginning and end of the day regular celebration of the sacraments daily religious education classes religious images and the presence of religious sisters brothers and priests all pointed in the same direction: God as God was understood within the Catholic tradition was the whole reason for the schools existence.
13 - 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.
14 - 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.
15 - 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.
16 - 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.
17 - 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).
18 - 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.
19 - 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.
20 - 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.
21 - 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.
22 - 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.
23 - 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.
24 - 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.
25 - 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.
26 - 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.
27 - 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.
28 - 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.
29 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Maria Plustwik
I write regarding John Morrisseys article Catholic religious education: some grassroots views (June AD2000).
30 - Aug 2011 - Obituary: John Wright (1923-2011): pillar of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
He was later actively involved with a group of Catholics in the 1980s who had organised over concerns about deficiencies in the then Melbourne archdiocesan guidelines for religious education.
31 - 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.
32 - 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.
33 - 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.
34 - Mar 2011 - Books: THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK OF ATHEISM, Edited by Warren Bonett, Frank Mobbs
Most of the essays deal with the presumed consequences of adopting atheism such as opposing religious education in State schools and the influence of religious groups in Australian politics.
35 - 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.
36 - 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.
37 - 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.
38 - 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.
39 - 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.
40 - 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.
41 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
In 1964 religious education in the schools was abolished.
42 - 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.
43 - 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.
44 - 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?
45 - 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.
46 - 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.
47 - 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.
48 - 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.
49 - May 2009 - US Catholics leaving the Church in droves: what can be done?, Fr Joseph A. Sirba
Perhaps parish funds could be better spent on well designed religious education programs or by supporting on-line schools that dont require expensive infrastructure.
50 - 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.
51 - Dec 2008 - Schools: Blessed Mary MacKillop Colleges: 2009 enrolments (Jindera, Wagga Wagga)
With its emphasis on the lives of the saints as role models and a religious education based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church Blessed Mary MacKillop Colleges offer a traditional approach to teaching the Catholic faith.
52 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Elliott is a Melbourne auxiliary bishop and Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education.
53 - Aug 2008 - Education: Progress continues with the new Wagga Wagga independent schools, Barbara Chigwidden
God who entrusts to us their religious education expects us to set His revealed religion before the students as truly as nobly and as worthily as our capacity allows.
54 - Jun 2008 - Education: Pope: Catholic education must uphold Church teachings, Pope Benedict XVI
Religious education is a challenging apostolate yet there are many signs of a desire among young people to learn about the faith and practice it with vigour.
55 - 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.
56 - 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.
57 - 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.
58 - 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.
59 - 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.
60 - Nov 2007 - Ora et labora: How monastic hospitality can strengthen one's faith, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
One woman a barrister with a religious education but no longer an active Catholic wrote of her visit to a convent of contemplative nuns: A substantial chapel is attached to the house and rings its bell before each of the seven canonical hours of prayer commencing with Matins at 4am and ending with Compline at 8pm.
61 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
Maria Kirkwood assistant director of religious education and pastoral care in the Melbourne archdiocese said it was now impossible for the Catholic Church to continue to support Amnesty with a policy of this nature in place.
62 - Oct 2007 - Catholic Life: Sydney's Pastoral Plan ready for implementation in 2008, Michael Gilchrist
At the beginning of their term of office Directors in the Catholic Education Office School Principals Assistant Principals and Religious Education Co-ordinators will make a Statement of Commitment as an expression of their ecclesial obligations.
63 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
Dr English is a senior lecturer in religious education at the Australian Catholic University (National).
64 - Sep 2007 - A successful quest for vocations in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
All too often religious education is reduced to vapid moralising fostering a concern for the marginalised and excluded (good!
65 - Sep 2007 - Pastoral Letter: NSW and ACT Bishops call for a shake-up in Catholic education, Michael Gilchrist
This means that all those appointed as principals assistant principals and religious education co- ordinators (RECs) are faithful Catholics who are ready to embrace the mission of the Catholic school today and to lead and inspire their staff and parents accordingly as far as possible only practising and knowledgeable Catholics are charged with the task of teaching RE in our schools and all teachers in Catholic schools need to be committed to the mission of the school and each live in accordance with the teachings of the Church.
66 - 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.
67 - 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.
68 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Principals deputy principals and religious education coordinators at the 167 Catholic schools in Sydney will most likely have to take the oath in early 2008.
69 - 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.
70 - 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.
71 - 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.
72 - 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.
73 - May 2007 - Catechesis: Sydney RCIA conference in June on forming new adult Catholics, Joanne Zwaans
Bill Keimig who is currently the Director of Religious Education at St Marys Parish in Clinton Maryland and also serves as a catechist trainer for the Archdiocese of Washington DC and a teacher in the Archdiocesan marriage preparation program.
74 - May 2007 - Education: How to fix Australia's Catholic schools and colleges, Br Barry Coldrey
Make sure the religious education department has the same sort of resources e.
75 - 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.
76 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
Because this philosophy has influenced religious education it is not surprising that many Catholics - in all age groups but markedly in the younger ones - believe that abortion is controversial that they can disagree with the Church on matters of faith and morals that it is right for me if I think it is right and that religion and science are irreconcilable.
77 - 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.
78 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
The Certificate in Faith Education is recognised by the Sydney Catholic Education Office for the accreditation of teachers of Religious Education in the archdiocesan schools.
79 - Mar 2007 - Sandhurst: Goddess worship at Victorian education conference?, Michael Gilchrist
Now she is Director of Religious Education in Sandhurst and has been involved in consultations with Sale Ballarat and Hobart to utilise the Thomas Groome approach in their programs.
80 - 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.
81 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
Too many young Catholics have been led by the pressures of contemporary propaganda whatever might be said about the inadequacies of family life and Catholic religious education so that their religious confusion is worse than that of all other young Australian Christians.
82 - Oct 2006 - Educating young Catholics: a bold initiative in Wagga Wagga, Michael Gilchrist
The students religious education will encompass the Catechism of the Catholic Church the lives of the saints instruction in apologetics and the learning of the virtues with a special emphasis on the theological and cardinal virtues and others such as humility and obedience.
83 - 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.
84 - 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.
85 - Aug 2006 - Does Wollongong's Catholic Education Office endorse dissent?, AD2000 Report
In his 1993 book titled A New Vision of Religious Education: Theory History Practice and Spirituality for DREs Catechists and Teachers Treston asserted that the Christian Churches reflecting the sexual patterns of the cultural environment have engaged in institutionalised discrimination against women through their structures and ministry (p.
86 - 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.
87 - 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.
88 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
He said that a needs assessment on religious education that had been carried out in the diocese confirmed to a significant degree that Catholics wished to become more knowledgeable of the deposit of faith.
89 - 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.
90 - 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.
91 - 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.
92 - 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.
93 - 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.
94 - 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.
95 - Nov 2005 - Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity, John Young
How can religious education be improved including homilies?
96 - 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.
97 - Oct 2005 - Benedict XVI speaks out on the crisis of faith in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
The Statement then spelled out the Churchs requirements in religious education theology religious life seminaries liturgy sacraments and other key areas and called on Australias bishops to address any deficiencies in these.
98 - 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.
99 - 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.
100 - 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.
101 - Jul 2005 - Evangelisation: Why many Catholics join fundamentalist sects, Frank Mobbs
So also were catechetics and religious education.
102 - 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 .
103 - 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.
104 - 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.
105 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
CNA Thomas Groome students challenge marriage laws Both women who took a High Court action late in 2004 to force a review of Irelands marriage laws have had a long and substantial involvement in religious education.
106 - 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.
107 - Dec 2004 - New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith, Fr John Walter
They include the increasing secularisation of our society with the inroads of a popular secular ethic; the undoubted falling away from the practice of the faith within a materialistic society whose only heaven is the here and now; extremely poor to erroneous catechesis influenced by such false religious education idols as Gabriel Moran and Thomas Groome whose theories of ongoing revelation and hermeneutic of suspicion have contributed greatly to stunting if not killing the seeds of faith.
108 - Nov 2004 - Obituary: RIP Michael Davies - The passing of a true defender of the Faith, Michael Foley
This placed him in the front line of the emerging trends in religious education from the time of the appearance of the Dutch Catechism in the heat and confusion following Vatican II.
109 - 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.
110 - 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.
111 - 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.
112 - 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.
113 - 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).
114 - 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.
115 - 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.
116 - 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.
117 - Mar 2004 - Ad limina 2004: The 'Statement of Conclusions' five years on, Michael Gilchrist
The spreading use over the past five years of new religious education texts based on the Catechism in the Melbourne Sydney and other dioceses has been a very important development; but elsewhere there are deep-seated problems.
118 - 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.
119 - 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.
120 - 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.
121 - 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.
122 - 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.
123 - 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.
124 - 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.
125 - 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.
126 - 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.
127 - 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.
128 - 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.
129 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He made his remarks during an audience on 8 May with participants in a conference on priests duties in religious education.
130 - 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.
131 - 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.
132 - 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.
133 - 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.
134 - 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.
135 - 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.
136 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Central to this was the role of the bishop: In canonical terms the bishop of a diocese in our case an archbishop has the authority to set the standard for the schools and oversees them - particularly the religious education program.
137 - 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.
138 - 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.
139 - 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.
140 - 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?
141 - 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.
142 - 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.
143 - 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.
144 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Many members of the (Cathedral) Knights of the Southern Cross have children or grandchildren of school age and have been concerned about the standard of religious education in some Catholic schools.
145 - 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.
146 - 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.
147 - 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.
148 - 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.
149 - Nov 2002 - Books: A Generation Betrayed: Deconstructing Catholic Education, by Eamonn Keane, John Young
Available from AD Books) Many people on realising the sad state of religious education in schools and universities are perplexed as to how this could have happened.
150 - 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.
151 - 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.
152 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC
Just as after-school learning and activities are demanded for other subjects in the curriculum the Catholic school should require that after-school structured and unstructured activity and learning be carried out in religious education programs.
153 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist
In light of such alarming - but hardly surprising - findings Flynn and Mok urge that wise leadership by committed Catholic teachers is required in order to challenge the marginalisation of religious education and religious practice in the minds of many students.
154 - Jul 2002 - Books: A Pope and a Council on the Sacred Liturgy, by Aidan Nichols OP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Monsignor Elliott parish priest of East Malvern and Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne is the author of Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite Ignatius Press 1995.
155 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
Religious education The parishs catechetical program was put in the hands of a dedicated orthodox Director of Religious Education who brought in Ignatius Press for the core curriculum.
156 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
While the Office of Religious Education in the diocese had rebuffed parents requests Archbishop Exner ruled definitively on the matter on 20 March.
157 - 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.
158 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne 'Sexuality Directives' put parents first, Anthony Cappello
The document was a collaborative effort between the Catholic Education Office Vicar for Religious Education and members of the archdiocesan Council for Marriage and Family who together formed an advisory committee.
159 - 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.
160 - 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.
161 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
Br John Moylan last year celebrated his Golden Jubilee as a Christian Brother and has two Masters degrees in Religious Education.
162 - 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.
163 - 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.
164 - 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.
165 - 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.
166 - 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.
167 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
Effective religious education it says should reflect the same systematic demands and rigour as other subjects such as science history and literature and teachers of RE should present explain and justify the Christian message as it is transmitted by the Catholic Church.
168 - 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.
169 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
The new Melbourne religion texts launched in schools this year could be a ready- made resource while finding a counterpart to his Melbourne right-hand- man Monsignor Peter Elliott to supervise religious education would be an important priority.
170 - 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.
171 - 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.
172 - 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.
173 - 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.
174 - 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?
175 - Dec 2000 - Letters: 'Creating Our Future' (letter), Patricia Byrnes
The three main concerns of my parish as tabulated from a questionnaire and discussed at an earlier meeting were the shortage of priests the need for loyalty by bishops priests and people to Church teachings and the need for orthodox religious education.
176 - Dec 2000 - ACU - when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' be implemented?, Michael Gilchrist
This means setting in place mechanisms to ensure the orthodoxy of ACUs faculty and course content in the such areas as theology philosophy Scripture and religious education curriculum.
177 - 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.
178 - 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.
179 - 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.
180 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
Unless there is unity among a school staff about fundamentals there must be question marks about the quality of religious education a school can provide.
181 - Sep 2000 - The 'Statement of Conclusions' and liturgy: what needs to be done, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In fidelity to the Catechism of the Catholic Church we will include liturgical catechesis at all levels of religious education in the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
182 - 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.
183 - May 2000 - Understanding the Incarnation, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Elliott is Episcopal Vicar for Religious Education Melbourne Archdiocese.
184 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
If these matters have been confused or lost sight of it may be because too much attention has been afforded comparative religious education and too little given to Catholic religious knowledge.
185 - 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.
186 - 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.
187 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC
Monsignor Dennis Regan a prominent moral theologian who contributed a regular column in the American magazine Priest explained when lecturing in Moral Theology in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University in 1987 the importance of evangelising before moralising in an article entitled First Things First.
188 - Feb 2000 - Lay teachers: backbone of the Catholic system, Tom Kendell
Apart from her role as the former deputy- principal a role she occupied with distinction for eighteen years at Sacred Heart Jean has fulfilled the roles of curriculum co-ordinator religious education co-ordinator subject co-ordinator and outstanding teacher of VCE Politics.
189 - 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.
190 - 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.
191 - 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.
192 - 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.
193 - 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.
194 - 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.
195 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
In religious education every teacher is a missionary.
196 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
On the 10th the Eparchy will launch its own Caritas office its Centacare Program and its Religious Education Centre at 11.
197 - 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.
198 - 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).
199 - May 1999 - US Dominican nun brings the 'New Cosmology' to New Zealand, Bernard Moran
Religious education It was precisely the prospect of this New Cosmology being fed into reshaped Catholic religious education (via supportive religious) that prompted Fr George Duggan SM a theologian author and retired seminary professor to send a memorandum one month before Sister MacGilliss visit to each New Zealand bishop detailing how her views constituted pantheism (equating God with his creation) and that Catholics attending her lectures could be endangering their faith.
200 - 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.
201 - 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.
202 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC
Parents Religious and the Church who have invested so much in several ways in Catholic schools in the belief that they are necessary for the religious formation of their students have a right to expect that these schools are giving an authentic effective Catholic religious education.
203 - 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.
204 - 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.
205 - 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.
206 - Dec 1997 - Education: Tom Kendell of Sacred Heart College: 'an exceptional Catholic educator', Richard Rymarz
Richard Rymarz is the Religious Education Co-ordinator at Sacred Heart College.
207 - 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.
208 - Aug 1997 - Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia: an update, Michael Gilchrist
Among these were a nun prison chaplain Fr Maurice Shinnick chaplain to the homosexual and lesbian Acceptance organisation in Adelaide Margaret OToole (ex-Dominican nun) and previously co-head of the Catholic Teachers College a couple of Josephite nuns another couple of Dominican nuns representing the Sophia Community within the Cabra Dominican Community a Dominican Congregational Head Helen OBrien from the Catholic Education Office a religious education co-ordinator in a Catholic parish school Sr Jo Armour of WATAC and a group of pastoral associates.
209 - 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.
210 - May 1997 - Education: Catholic schools problems can be solved, Tom Kendell
The Catechism of the Catholic Church should be in the hands of every teacher of religious education as the one sure guide for teaching the fundamentals of the faith.
211 - 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.
212 - 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.
213 - 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.
214 - 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.
215 - 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.
216 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
In support of this doctrine the Diocese sponsors teachers to be trained as natural family planning instructors maintains 11 training centres at convenient locations includes this doctrine in its marriage preparation policy and even instructs high school students about the message of Humanae Vitae through its religious education program.
217 - 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.
218 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
The French member of the Catechisms drafting committee was Mgr Jean Honoreacute; the 72-year-old Archbishop of Tours a former director of Frances National Centre for Religious Education.
219 - 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.
220 - 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.
221 - 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.
222 - Dec 1990 - Books: Australian bishops tell Catholic teachers what to teach, Msgr John P. Kelly
Its appearance is welcome being in itself a recognition that Religious Education is in need of improvement and guidance and it contains much of value for that purpose.
223 - 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.
224 - Mar 1990 - Parish assemblies - pluralism or brainwashing?, Michael Gilchrist
The material included a report on our last two pastoral planning events namely meetings held in October and November of all parish representatives and of Councils of Priests and Religious Pastoral Associates representatives Youth Ministry Religious Education Centre representatives and Diocesan Pastoral Planning representatives along with information on the Parish Assembly Process.
225 - 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.
226 - Dec 1989 - Can Catholic integrity be recovered?, Colin Jory
Recently I encountered for the first time the Melbourne Catholic Education Office Guidelines for Religious Education.
227 - 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.
228 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop DArcy provides a clue when he refers to influential people in religious education departments calling a halt around 1970 to teaching about the seriousness of Sunday Mass obligation There was no basis for such a fundamental about-turn in any Vatican II document let alone any papal statement of the past 25 years.
229 - Feb 1989 - The condition of Catholic teacher training in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Unfortunately the ever-present danger of secularisation of our colleges is aggravated by the pervasive influences of neo-modernism among lecturers in such departments as Scripture theology and religious education with key props of Catholicism such as Divine Revelation hierarchical authority and immutable truths tending to be de-emphasised or diluted.
230 - Feb 1989 - Editorial: Who are the educational 'experts'?, B.A. Santamaria
The catechetical methods of the past two decades as he points out have been based on the experientialist Development not Information educational theory largely the creation of John Dewey which was translated from the field of secular into that of religious education by those who have had control of Catholic education since the 70s.
231 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule
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232 - Feb 2016 - Royal Commission: I accuse! A travesty of justice, Peter Westmore
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233 - Dec 2015 - Religious freedom: Catholic bishops face more than prosecution over marriage leaflet, Pat Byrne
234 - Nov 2015 - Salvation: "All Israel will be saved": Romans 11:26, Andrew Sholl
235 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
236 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral statement: Marriage Reinvented?, Bishop Michael Kennedy
237 - Sep 2015 - Concordat: Catholic Church signs concordat with East Timor, Peter Westmore
238 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report
239 - Aug 2015 - Books: THE EAR OF THE HEART: An Actress’ Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows, Michael E Daniel
240 - Aug 2015 - Obituary: Fr Greg Jordan: an exemplary Jesuit, AD2000 Report
241 - Jun 2015 - Books: THE UNICORN IN THE SANCTUARY: New Age and the Catholic Church, Br Barry Coldrey
242 - Jun 2015 - Canonisation: Pope Francis canonises four heroic nuns, AD2000 Report
243 - Apr 2015 - Books: MARY: A CATHOLIC-EVANGELICAL DEBATE, Dwight Longenecker & David Gustafson, Michael E Daniel
244 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
245 - Mar 2015 - Synod: AFA calls for Synod to strengthen support for families, AD2000 Report
246 - Feb 2015 - Books: AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study, by Hugh Jackson, Michael E. Daniel
247 - Dec 2014 - Obituary: Fr Benedict Groeschel, aged 81, dies in New Jersey, Peter Westmore
248 - Oct 2014 - Students: Young adult ministry on Australian tertiary campuses, Br Barry Coldrey
249 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
250 - Sep 2014 - Books: JOURNAL OF A SOUL (John XXIII) and POPE JOHN, BLESSED JOHN XXIII, Br Barry Coldrey
251 - Sep 2014 - Students: ACSA Conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
252 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
253 - Aug 2014 - Factors in the success of Australia's young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
254 - Jul 2014 - Books: RACE WITH THE DEVIL: My Journey Racial Hatred to Rational Love, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
255 - Jul 2014 - Boko Haram: Christians and Muslims unite against Nigerian terrorists, CNA-EWTN REPORT
256 - Jul 2014 - Dubai: is this the largest parish in the world?, Patrick Byrne
257 - Jul 2014 - Youth: Young adult ministry flourishing in Australia, Br Barry Coldrey
258 - Jul 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
259 - Jun 2014 - Sisters of St Paul of Chartres and their global impact, CNA REPORT
260 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
261 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
262 - May 2014 - A new cathedral in the Muslim world
263 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
264 - Apr 2014 - Russia: the rebirth of religious belief, Peter Westmore
265 - Apr 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
266 - Mar 2014 - Whither religious education in Australian Catholic schools?, Peter Finlayson
267 - Mar 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
268 - Feb 2014 - Books: THE IMITATION OF CHRIST by Thomas a Kempis, Br Barry Coldrey
269 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Religious instruction, Mrs Rowan Shann
270 - Feb 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
271 - Feb 2014 - Victorian Inquiry: First report into clerical sex abuse released, Peter Westmore
272 - Dec 2013 - Schools: Catholic school education: returning to our roots, Paul McCormack
273 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
274 - Dec 2013 - Pope Francis to canonise John Paul II and John XXIII next April, Michael Gilchrist
275 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
276 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Anti-religious bigotry, Peter Kamsma
277 - Oct 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
278 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley
279 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
280 - Aug 2013 - Books: FROM BROTHERHOOD TO PRIESTHOOD: Memoirs of Msgr William A. Mullins, Michael Gilchrist
281 - Aug 2013 - University: In the lions' den: Catholic ministry on secular campuses, Br Barry Coldrey
282 - Jul 2013 - Obituary: Vale Fr Paul Duffy SJ (1931-2013), Anna Krohn
283 - Jun 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
284 - May 2013 - Books: SIXTUS V: the Hermit of Villa Montalto, by W.T. Selley, Michael Daniel
285 - May 2013 - The plight of Egypt's Christians, Youssef Sidhom
286 - Mar 2013 - Medieval parish life: influential roles of religious orders, Frank Mobbs
287 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
288 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
289 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World
290 - Feb 2013 - Religious freedom: The widows of Kandmahal: anti-Christian violence in India, Babette Francis
291 - Dec 2012 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 1), Frank Mobbs
292 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
293 - Nov 2012 - Worldwide religious persecution continues, Cardinal Timothy Dolan
294 - Nov 2012 - Some good 'family' news from Russia, Babette Francis
295 - Oct 2012 - The Year of Faith and true unity of faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke
296 - Sep 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi (Editor), Gerard O'Shea
297 - Sep 2012 - Sainthood: Cardinal Van Thuân: process to beatification 'very advanced', Michael Gilchrist
298 - Aug 2012 - Events: Equipping Christian leaders for the challenges of secularism, Philippa Le Feuvre
299 - Jul 2012 - Books: FR ALEXANDER MEN: Martyr of Atheism, by Michel Evdokimov, Michael Daniel
300 - Jul 2012 - Benedict XVI calls for reform of US Catholic higher education, Hilary White
301 - Jul 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
302 - Jun 2012 - Books: ABOUT BIOETHICS: Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Angela Schumann
303 - Jun 2012 - Women Religious: Vatican takes action against dissenting US nuns, Babette Francis
304 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
305 - Jun 2012 - Secularism: Same-sex 'marriage' is an attack on parents' rights and religious freedom, Patrick Byrne
306 - May 2012 - UK Catholic schools under fire for 'homophobia', Hilary White
307 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
308 - May 2012 - Obama imposes contraception document on UN, Babette Francis
309 - Apr 2012 - Missions: Where the Church's growth is fastest, Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil
310 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
311 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
312 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
313 - Feb 2012 - Reflection: Pope's New Year Message for 2012 underlines the right use of freedom, Pope Benedict XVI
314 - Feb 2012 - Books: HOW TO GET EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, by Ian Plimer, Michael Gilchrist
315 - Feb 2012 - Letters: SSPX schools, Ken Bayliss
316 - Feb 2012 - Culture Wars: Catholic universities and secularism, Achbishop Charles Chaput
317 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
318 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
319 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
320 - Oct 2011 - Catholic Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Sr Mary Augustine OP
321 - Sep 2011 - Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success, Br Barry Coldrey
322 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
323 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
324 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
325 - Apr 2011 - Catholic Church's pivotal role in South Korea's pro-life revival, Babette Francis
326 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
327 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
328 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
329 - Feb 2011 - Marriage: US bishops signal a tougher stance in the culture wars, Michael Gilchrist
330 - Dec 2010 - Catholic origins: Psychology and Christianity: need they be at odds?, Wanda Skowronska
331 - Dec 2010 - Congress for Life: Catholic orthodoxy: key to promoting the culture of life, Cardinal Raymond Burke
332 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
333 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Declarations, Frank Mobbs
334 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
335 - Nov 2010 - Canonisation: St Mary of the Cross MacKillop: let the truth be told, Peter Westmore
336 - Oct 2010 - Reflection: The faith through symbols and stories, Andrew Kania
337 - Oct 2010 - Culture of Death: Euthanasia: latest frontier for legalised death in Australia, Babette Francis
338 - Sep 2010 - Natural Family Planning: Kyrgyzstan leads the way, Paula Flynn
339 - Sep 2010 - University: Another successful Australian Catholic Students Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
340 - Aug 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
341 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
342 - Jul 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
343 - Jul 2010 - Editorial: Religious education: the challenge of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
344 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
345 - May 2010 - Culture Wars: Christians uniting to take a stand: the Manhattan Declaration, Bishop Julian Porteous
346 - Apr 2010 - Religious freedom: UK Catholic schools forced to teach homosexuality in the classrooms, Babette Francis
347 - Mar 2010 - Books: LORETO IN AUSTRALIA, by Mary Ryllis Clark, Katharine Munro
348 - Feb 2010 - Indian martyrs: Present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan, Babette Francis
349 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
350 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Greens and Church, Kevin Cains
351 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
352 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
353 - Nov 2009 - Schools: How to rebuild Catholic education from the grass-roots, Sr Mary Augustine OP
354 - Nov 2009 - Campion College celebrates its fourth Year of operation, Br Barry Coldrey
355 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
356 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan
357 - Aug 2009 - Priesthood: Benedict XVI's Letter to priests: follow example of the Curé of Ars
358 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
359 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
360 - Jun 2009 - Sharia Law: Lights dim for Christians in Pakistan, Babette Francis
361 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
362 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
363 - Apr 2009 - Red Mass Homily: Catholics as 'bearers of light' in a secular culture, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
364 - Mar 2009 - American seminaries mostly 'healthy', but many problems remain
365 - Feb 2009 - Christian-Muslim dialogue: glimmerings of hope, Babette Francis
366 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
367 - Feb 2009 - The Statement of Conclusions: any signs of progress after ten years?, Michael Gilchrist
368 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
369 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
370 - Nov 2008 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tim Cannon
371 - Nov 2008 - Human rights: Religious persecution in China, India, Vietnam, Fr John Flynn LC
372 - Oct 2008 - Letters: New schools in Wagga Wagga, Kevin McInerny
373 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
374 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
375 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
376 - Aug 2008 - The tragic dilemmas of China's one-child policy, Babette Francis
377 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
378 - May 2008 - Ballarat: Children's Spirituality Conference at ACU: not to be confused with religion!, Michael Gilchrist
379 - Apr 2008 - Adult education: Sydney's Centre for Thomistic Studies, Donald G. Boland
380 - Apr 2008 - Apostolic journey: Pope's Washington visit will address key issues, Peter Westmore
381 - Apr 2008 - WYDSYD08: World Youth Day Sydney: look for the wider trend, Joanna Bogle
382 - Apr 2008 - Progress report: AD2000's worldwide outreach via the Internet, Francis Young
383 - Apr 2008 - Editorial: AD2000 reaches the twenty year mark, Michael Gilchrist
384 - Feb 2008 - The need for solitude and reflection amid today's cacophony, Andrew Kania
385 - Feb 2008 - How to reform Catholic education: get the world view right, Chris Hilder
386 - Feb 2008 - Paganism: 'New Age' activities continue in Brisbane Archdiocese, Tim Pemble-Smith
387 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
388 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Fixing the schools, G. Brian Bibby
389 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
390 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
391 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
392 - Aug 2007 - Editorial: Census 2006: 'No religion' up, Christians down
393 - Jul 2007 - Education: New Wagga Wagga schools take their 'leap of faith', Bill Andrews
394 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
395 - May 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
396 - Apr 2007 - Book Launch: B.A. Santamaria and Australian Catholicism: Cardinal Pell's tribute, Cardinal George Pell
397 - Mar 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
398 - Mar 2007 - WYDSYD08: Salesian provincial urges parishes to sponsor Timorese to World Youth Day 2008, Peter Westmore
399 - Feb 2007 - Education: Australia's Catholic school systems: the case for radical surgery, Michael Gilchrist
400 - Dec 2006 - Shrines: Marian Valley: Queensland's centre of pilgrimage, Peter Westmore
401 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
402 - Nov 2006 - Reflection: Catholic schools must proclaim the total love of Christ, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
403 - Nov 2006 - Poetry: Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954 to 2005, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
404 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Generation 'Y', Kevin Cains
405 - Nov 2006 - Books: Is the Catholic Church in Australia 'lost'?, Michael Gilchrist
406 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
407 - Oct 2006 - Book Launch: Lost! Australian Catholics Today, by Michael Gilchrist
408 - Sep 2006 - Books: William Bernard Ullathorne: A Different Kind of Monk, by Judith Champ, Michael Gilchrist
409 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
410 - Jul 2006 - Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
411 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
412 - Jul 2006 - Salesian Missions: Church protects the victims of Timor violence, Br Michael Lynch
413 - Jul 2006 - Editorial: Strong Church leadership: new approach, Michael Gilchrist
414 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Thank you from India, Fr. A. Joseph
415 - Jun 2006 - Respect: New text book series vilifies the Catholic Church, Kevin Donnelly
416 - Jun 2006 - Is dialogue possible between Christians and Muslims?, Cardinal George Pell
417 - May 2006 - Foreign priests - a tale of two Brisbane parishes, Bob Osmak
418 - May 2006 - Vocations: Can religious life be rebuilt in Australia?, Sr Mary Augustine OP
419 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
420 - Apr 2006 - The Domestic Church: The Christian Family Movement: re-evangelising through families, Leslie Sammut
421 - Apr 2006 - Creation: Intelligent Design and the war against God, Stephen Hitchings
422 - Apr 2006 - Salesian Missions: Cardinal Pell visits East Timor, Michael Lynch SDB
423 - Mar 2006 - Vocations: Dominican Sisters: religious vocations continue to rise in Nashville, Tracey Rowland
424 - Feb 2006 - The Church of England: beyond satire?, Rev Peter Mullen
425 - Feb 2006 - New Age paganism's creeping influence within the Church, Wanda Skowronska
426 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
427 - Nov 2005 - Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS, Anh Nguyen
428 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
429 - Oct 2005 - Youth: The lasting impact of World Youth Day, Sannon Donahoo
430 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
431 - Oct 2005 - Editorial: Health of Church and health of family connect, Michael Gilchrist
432 - Sep 2005 - Can reverence at Mass make a comeback?, Michael Ryan
433 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
434 - Aug 2005 - International poll underlines growing secularist challenge, Michael Gilchrist
435 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
436 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
437 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
438 - May 2005 - Year of Eucharist: Religious education: Catholic youth have their say, Shannon Donahoo
439 - May 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
440 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Chavagnes International College, Raymond De Souza
441 - Mar 2005 - Adult Education: Sydney Centre for Thomistic Studies continues a great teacher's legacy, Audrey English
442 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Religion inquiry (letter), Jeff Tan
443 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
444 - Feb 2005 - Education: State Aid: answering the critics' arguments, Fr Matthew Kirby
445 - Feb 2005 - The Church in Australia 2005: can the tide be turned?, Michael Gilchrist
446 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
447 - Dec 2004 - Editorial: Religious literacy: why not a national inquiry?, Michael Gilchrist
448 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Extraordinary ministers of Communion (letter), Leon Voesenek
449 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Crisis of faith (letter), Errol P. Duke
450 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
451 - Oct 2004 - News: The Church around the World
452 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist
453 - Sep 2004 - Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre courses prove popular, Peter Holmes
454 - Sep 2004 - Books: Exposing 'The Da Vinci Code' fraud, James Hitchcock
455 - Aug 2004 - Carnivale Christi: Whatever happened to beauty in art?, Paul Fitzgerald
456 - Aug 2004 - History: Catholic education: triumph over adversity, Cardinal George Pell
457 - Aug 2004 - Editorial: New challenges for Catholic education, Peter Westmore
458 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Ineffective system (letter), John Mulholland
459 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
460 - Jul 2004 - Feminist 'rituals': no substitute for prayer, Joanna Bogle
461 - Jul 2004 - Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion, Michael Gilchhrist
462 - Jun 2004 - Letter: Signs of hope (letter), Daniel Attard
463 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
464 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
465 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools
466 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
467 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart
468 - Mar 2004 - Books: THE HEADLONG TRAFFIC : Poems and Prose 1997 to 2002, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
469 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Higher calling, Judy O'Reilly
470 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist
471 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart
472 - Nov 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
473 - Nov 2003 - John Paul II elevates Archbishop George Pell to the College of Cardinals, Michael Gilchrist
474 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
475 - Oct 2003 - After 25 years: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
476 - Sep 2003 - Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
477 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
478 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
479 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), Alistair Barros
480 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
481 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
482 - Feb 2003 - Books: The Catholic School In An Age Of Dissent, by Leonard A. Kennedy CSB, Michael Gilchrist
483 - Dec 2002 - Books: Bio-Engagement: Making a Christian Difference through Bioethics Today, Bill Muehlenberg
484 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
485 - Oct 2002 - Books: Godfaring: On Reason, Faith and Sacred Being, by Francis Clark, Br Christian Moe FSC
486 - Oct 2002 - Letters: New Zealand (letter), Kevin E. Fennessy
487 - Oct 2002 - US billionaire promotes orthodox teaching, Zenit News Service
488 - Oct 2002 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women justifies its existence, Michael Gilchrist
489 - Oct 2002 - Power without responsibility: the vendetta against Dr Pell, Peter Westmore
490 - Sep 2002 - The 1960s 'cultural revolution': from self-sacrifice to self-fulfillment, Fr Gregory Jordan
491 - Sep 2002 - Promoting Catholic vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
492 - Sep 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
493 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
494 - Jul 2002 - '60 Minutes': Archbishop George Pell puts the record straight, Archbishop George Pell
495 - May 2002 - Letters: Christian principles (letter), Errol P. Duke
496 - May 2002 - 'The Resurrection in the university' - IMCSA National Conference in Sydney, Nicholas Rynne
497 - Apr 2002 - The Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, Hal G.P. Colebatch
498 - Mar 2002 - Editorial: Selecting and forming future priests, Michael Gilchrist
499 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly
500 - Feb 2002 - US Conference: 'Newman's Idea of a University', Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
501 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
502 - Dec 2001 - Obituary: Thomas Kendell (1929-2001) R.I.P. - The passing of a great Catholic educator, Nicholas Kendell
503 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
504 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
505 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
506 - Sep 2001 - Why today's secular culture is anti-Catholic, James Hitchcock
507 - Sep 2001 - Feminism's broad agenda within the Catholic Church, Donna Steichen
508 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
509 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
510 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
511 - Jul 2001 - The case for more Church History in Catholic schools, Michael Lynch
512 - Jul 2001 - Education: National Catholic Education Conference: but who chose the guest speakers?, Michael Gilchrist
513 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
514 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
515 - Apr 2001 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family to open in July 2001, AD2000 Report
516 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Catholic education (letter), Daniel Bryce
517 - Mar 2001 - ACU theology: how orthodox, how accountable?, Michael Gilchrist
518 - Feb 2001 - Religious persecution continues in Vietnam, AD2000 Report
519 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
520 - Nov 2000 - Fr Francis Harman RIP: bioethicist of distinction, Dr Joseph Santamaria
521 - Nov 2000 - Toowoomba's 'Creating Our Future' - or a recipe for further decline?, Michael Gilchrist
522 - Oct 2000 - Contentious Social Justice Statement on women's participation published, Michael Gilchrist
523 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
524 - Sep 2000 - Reflection: Religious life: death or re-birth?, Fr Benedict Groeschel
525 - Aug 2000 - Reflection: Re-discovering holiness will lead to more priestly vocations: Cardinal Daly, Cardinal Cahal Daly
526 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
527 - Aug 2000 - Rockhampton: shuffling deck chairs on the 'Titanic', AD2000 Report
528 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
529 - Jul 2000 - New campus of John Paul II Institute set to open in Melbourne, AD2000 Report
530 - May 2000 - Letters: Nothing to do? (letter), Frank Mobbs
531 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
532 - May 2000 - Australian Catholic University student survey, Michael Gilchrist
533 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
534 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
535 - Dec 1999 - Stress Christianity's uniqueness says Pope, Father Bernardo Cerveller
536 - Nov 1999 - The Jesuits: 150 years of ministry in Australia, Elizabeth Ledlin
537 - Nov 1999 - New international Catholic university opens Internet campus, AD2000 Report
538 - Oct 1999 - Reflection: A Kolbe Quartet, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
539 - Oct 1999 - The UN's war on population confronts religious principles, Stephen Hitchings
540 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
541 - Jun 1999 - Bishops Conference resolves crisis over 'Statement of Conclusions', Michael Gilchrist
542 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
543 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
544 - Apr 1999 - What the census statistics on religious affiliations reveal, Michael Gilchrist
545 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
546 - Apr 1999 - Editorial: Many matters in need of attention, Peter Westmore
547 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
548 - Mar 1999 - John Paul II's successful fourth visit to Mexico, AD2000 Report
549 - Mar 1999 - Editorial: After the Statement of Conclusions, Michael Gilchrist
550 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
551 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
552 - Oct 1998 - Teresa-Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): new Carmelite Saint, Tracey Rowland
553 - Aug 1998 - Decline in priests 'an opportunity for growth!' says Townsville's Bishop, Michael Gilchrist
554 - Aug 1998 - Pope's new Apostolic Letter puts theological dissenters on notice
555 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
556 - Nov 1997 - Books: 'Tomorrow's Creed' as drafted by Fr Michael Morwood, Frank Mobbs
557 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
558 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
559 - Mar 1996 - New Vatican document vindicates concerns about classroom sex education
560 - Dec 1995 - Beijing UN Conference on Women - How Holy See took on the feminist agenda, Rita Joseph
561 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
562 - Oct 1995 - Books: The Battle for the American Church (Revisited), by Msgr George A. Kelly, Michael Gilchrist
563 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
564 - Sep 1995 - Alexander Rzewuski (1893-1983): The Catholic Church viewed with 'fresh eyes', Fr Peter Knowles OP
565 - May 1995 - Lincoln, Nebraska: how a Catholic diocese was built
566 - May 1995 - Editorial: Re-defining Christianity through substitution, B.A. Santamaria
567 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
568 - Aug 1994 - Editorial: Now that the rebellion is in the open - what?, B.A. Santamaria
569 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin
570 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
571 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
572 - Jul 1993 - Brother Andrew speaks out on the Catholic crisis, Brother Andrew
573 - Mar 1993 - Books: A review of the 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' (French Edition), Fr Peter Joseph
574 - Aug 1992 - Surveys highlight decline of mainline Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
575 - Aug 1992 - Editorial: The graph points downwards, B.A. Santamaria
576 - Mar 1992 - Sin: Shakespeare got it right, Susan Moore
577 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
578 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
579 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
580 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
581 - May 1991 - Why the 'new' catechetics is flawed, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
582 - Mar 1991 - Editorial: Statistician registers numbers of believers - but what do they believe?, B.A. Santamaria
583 - Feb 1991 - How religion fares in the U.S.A. - Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, Michael Gilchrist
584 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
585 - Jun 1990 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century', Fr John Parsons
586 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
587 - Feb 1990 - A Tale of Two Universities, Dr Ralph McInerny, Dr Alan Schreck
588 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
589 - Feb 1990 - Cardinal Newman: a centenary tribute, Dr Frank Mobbs
590 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
591 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
592 - Jul 1989 - Making a revolution by changing the meaning of words, Frank Mobbs
593 - Jul 1989 - Editorial: No subscriptions under false pretences, B.A. Santamaria
594 - Jun 1989 - Australian Catholicism's one million "lost": a sociological analysis, B.A. Santamaria
595 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
596 - Dec 1988 - At a Catholic teachers' college, 'A Parent'
597 - Oct 1988 - A Catholic university for Australia: surely not modelled on Notre Dame?, Michael Gilchrist
598 - Jul 1988 - Home education: a viable alternative, Robert Denahy
599 - Jul 1988 - 'Humanae Vitae' twenty years after, B.A. Santamaria
600 - Jun 1988 - A pen picture of American Catholicism, Michael Gilchrist