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1 - Feb 2016 - Royal Commission: I accuse! A travesty of justice, Peter Westmore
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He also said he had not been properly briefed by the Catholic Education Office which had responsibility for administration and staffing of Catholic schools regarding its knowledge of Fr Searson.
2 - Dec 2015 - Education: Religious education: parents' responsibility or school's?, Fr Pat Stratford
In an article in the October issue of AD2000 entitled New Perspectives in Catholic Education we read that a group of Catholic parents have written to the Catholic bishops of Australia urging urgent action on deficiencies in religion education in Catholic schools.
3 - Dec 2015 - Religious freedom: Catholic bishops face more than prosecution over marriage leaflet, Pat Byrne
) compels Catholic schools to host quot;Gay-Straight Alliancequot; clubs and to use that particular name.
4 - 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.
5 - Jul 2015 - Religious freedom: Gay lobby targets Tasmania’s Archbishop Julian Porteous, AD2000 Report
Copies of the pastoral letter issued as a booklet by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference on May 28 were sent home with students attending Catholic schools in the Sydney Melbourne and Canberra-Goulburn archdioceses as well as Hobart.
6 - Mar 2015 - The parish priest and parish school, Fr John O'Neill
Catholic schools are the chief means by which bishops and their priests fulfil their God-given obligation to bring the Gospel to children.
7 - Feb 2015 - Vatican report lays bare problems in US religious life, AD2000 Report
Throughout the nations history the educational apostolate of women religious in Catholic schools has fostered the personal development and nourished the faith of countless young people and helped the Church community in the USA to flourish.
8 - Dec 2014 - Books: AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC YOUTH MINISTRY, by C. Fini and C. Ryan (Eds), Br Barry Coldrey
These are some of the contributions and these separate authors: The Post Vatican II Experience of Youth in Australia: Generation Y and the Church (Joel Hodge); Towards an Evangelising Youth Ministry (Chris Ryan); Young Church in the Cloud (Christian Fini); Creating a Safe Environment for Young People (Teresa Rhynehart); Diocesan Approach to Youth Ministry (Michael Hart); Youth Ministry in a Rural Context (Gabrielle Sinclair); Catholic Schools in the New Evangelisation the CSYMA (Peter Woods); and The Emergence of Lay Retreat Teams (Steve Toohey).
9 - Dec 2014 - Vocations: Young Men of God Retreat for 2014 another success, Br Barry Coldrey
The Missionaries have already sponsored two additional ministries in their short history the Young Men of God and the CSYMA the Catholic Schools Youth Missionary Association the former in 2004 and the CSYMA in 2008.
10 - Nov 2014 - Episcopacy: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP appointed Archbishop of Sydney, AD2000 Report
Born at the Mater Hospital in Crows Nest he attended Catholic schools at Lakemba Lane Cove Ryde and Riverview.
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 - Sep 2014 - Students: ACSA Conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
Some of ACSAs members were home schooled or attended new Catholic parent-controlled schools such as Redfield and Tangara Colleges in Sydney a few went to Protestant grammar or Christian schools or attended exclusive Jesuit colleges where family affluence and high social status gave them the confidence to buck peer group pressure and the toxic anti-religious aggro around some Catholic schools.
13 - Aug 2014 - Factors in the success of Australia's young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
Most had attended Catholic schools but were often critical of the religious and moral formation they received from staff who reflected the Heinz 57 Varieties of religious belief and practice.
14 - Jul 2014 - Youth: Young adult ministry flourishing in Australia, Br Barry Coldrey
In 2014 there are three organisations which arrange inform and energise peer ministry to Australian youth and young adult Catholics: the Youth Mission Teams (YMT) the National Team of the Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Association (CSYMA) and the National Evangelisation Teams (NET).
15 - Jun 2014 - Books: A CATHOLIC ETON? Newman's Oratory School, by Paul Shrimpton, Br Barry Coldrey
A major challenge for the 400 to 500 English upper-class converts who accompanied or followed John Henry Newman to the Catholic Church in the 1840s and 1850s was the few suitable Catholic schools to which their sons could be sent for their education.
16 - Jun 2014 - US Catholic school embroiled in dispute over Church teaching, Kirsten Andersen
While the situation that took place at the Prout School last week was deeply regrettable Principal David Carradini has no plans to resign wrote Daniel Ferris superintendent of Diocese of Providence Catholic Schools.
17 - May 2014 - After the turbulent years: the Church renewed, Fr John O'Neill
Parents were still in dreamland sending their children off to Catholic schools (or state school Scripture classes using defective CCD material) to be taught by religious or lay teachers who had been trained or by seminars retrained in the new approach.
18 - May 2014 - Missionaries of God's Love: Vatican recognition lifts status, Br Barry Coldrey
More recently the Missionaries have assisted the Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Association which was established in Canberra by Peter Woods Director of Mission and Identity at St Edmunds College Manuka in 2007.
19 - Mar 2014 - Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Association: a new force for good, Br Barry Coldrey
The Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Association was established in Canberra in 2007 by Peter Woods Director of Mission and Life at St Edmunds College Manuka.
20 - Mar 2014 - Whither religious education in Australian Catholic schools?, Peter Finlayson
Inadequate quality Mr McCormacks view is that many so-called Catholic schools fail to conform to these standards and practice and the reasons for this situation resonate with ours and other grandparents experiences as evidenced by the inadequate quality of the graduates (children and grandchildren) who have emerged from the Catholic school system over the past 30-40 years.
21 - Mar 2014 - Holy See responds to unfounded UN Committee attack, Peter Westmore
Typical of the Committees recommendations is that the Holy See take active measures to remove from Catholic schools textbooks all gender stereotyping which may limit the development of the talents and abilities of boys and girls and undermine their educational and life opportunities.
22 - Feb 2014 - Art: Interview with Tommy Canning: art in the service of truth
Were there Catholic schools in Scotland?
23 - Feb 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican document on Catholic schools identity A recently released Vatican document has called for a fresh commitment to Catholic identity within what it calls an increasingly secularised educ-ational environment.
24 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Right of conscience, Marian Grima
No wonder the children and young adults in our Catholic schools and universities have no idea what the teachings of the Catholic Church actually are.
25 - Dec 2013 - Schools: Catholic school education: returning to our roots, Paul McCormack
Current problem As I see things the current problem with many Catholic schools is not necessarily that theyre no longer good schools.
26 - Nov 2013 - Schools: The future of Catholic education, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
Gods centrality I went to Catholic schools in Melbourne from 1959 when I was in prep until 1971 when I completed my secondary schooling.
27 - Oct 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic schools have been forbidden to teach Catholic courses on religion and morality.
28 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Parliaments Orwellian attempt to redefine marriage radically changes the social context and this presents a massive challenge to the Church in England and Wales: to those who wish to marry in our churches to Catholic parents bringing up children to teachers in our Catholic schools and to the clergy engaged in pastoral ministry.
29 - Aug 2013 - Books: FROM BROTHERHOOD TO PRIESTHOOD: Memoirs of Msgr William A. Mullins, Michael Gilchrist
Vatican assignments In 1970 on the basis of his impressive educational track record and academic qualifications the then Brother William Mullins was assigned to the newly established Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education where he would work for two terms: firstly in the Catholic Schools Section (1970-74) and then in the University Section (1979-1990).
30 - Jul 2013 - Parody?: Anti-Catholic hate speech, Aussie Style (Move on, nothing to see here), R.J. Stove
The majority of Australian elected representatives whether they are members of Parliament or local councillors were educated at Catholic schools.
31 - Mar 2013 - 1000 UK priests sign joint letter against same-sex 'marriage', AD2000 Report
I am very anxious that when we are preaching in church or teaching in our Catholic schools or witnessing to the Christian faith of what marriage is that we are not going to be able to do it - that we could be arrested for being bigots or homophobes.
32 - Feb 2013 - Schools: Drawing pupils to God through the true, the good and the beautiful, Rosemary Anderson
While other schools are doing great things no other Catholic schools in the diocese are doing this yet.
33 - 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.
34 - Nov 2012 - The new evangelisation: restore a sense of the sacred, Andrew Kania
WA Bishops In their Mandate 2009-2015 the Catholic Bishops of Western Australia emphasised strongly the necessity to use Catholic schools as vehicles for evangelisation in the faith through the encouragement of the sense of the sacred.
35 - Oct 2012 - Missions: Father Raphael: dynamic Nigerian parish priest, Madonna Brosnan
Some years ago the government took possession of all Catholic schools.
36 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
However she is not well placed to be lecturing Catholic schools on anything given the bitter hostility of the Greens to Christians to Catholic teaching and all church schools .
37 - Sep 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi (Editor), Gerard O'Shea
Teaching the faith in Catholic schools: a valuable new resource A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION Leonardo Franchi (Editor) (Gracewing/Freedom Publishing 2012 252pp $30.
38 - Sep 2012 - Survey confirms crisis of faith in Ireland, Michael Gilchrist
Among the fruits of the new Catholic schools including their counterparts in Australia was a rise in vocations with generations of missionary priests sisters and brothers leaving their homeland to serve in every continent especially in the English-speaking world.
39 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News US Diocese strengthens teaching of the faith The Diocese of Arlington Virginia hopes to strengthen teaching in Catholic schools and churches by asking religious instructors to promise allegiance to the Churchs teachings including on controversial subjects.
40 - Aug 2012 - Books: THE NEW EVANGELISATION: Issues and Challenges for Catholic Schools, Br Barry Coldrey
THE NEW EVANGELISATION: Issues and Challenges for Catholic Schools by Richard Rymarz (Connor Court Publishing 2012 192pp $29.
41 - Aug 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
After his appointment in 2006 Bishop Lennon heard concerns raised about the quality of religious instruction in local Catholic schools.
42 - 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.
43 - Jul 2012 - Benedict XVI calls for reform of US Catholic higher education, Hilary White
All too often it seems Catholic schools and colleges have failed to challenge students to reappropriate their faith.
44 - Jul 2012 - Campus Life: A new model for Catholic university chaplaincy in Brisbane, Br Barry Coldrey
Mick Jones joined the Freedom Movement this year after teaching in Catholic schools for six years.
45 - Jul 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News UK Catholic schools under fire over gay marriage The government of Wales is moving against Catholic schools that organised students to sign a petition against the governments plans to legalise gay marriage.
46 - 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.
47 - 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.
48 - May 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi and Stephen McKinney (ed), Angela Schumann
Part 2 Application to Context focuses on the teacher in particular on Catholic schools in the contemporary English-speaking world and primarily in the UK the locus of the contributors educational experience.
49 - May 2012 - Letters: Year of Grace, Ken Bayliss
CUF was particularly concerned about the lack of Catholicism being taught in Catholic schools and the lack of uniformity in parish Masses.
50 - May 2012 - UK Catholic schools under fire for 'homophobia', Hilary White
The British Government is allowing homophobia to be promoted in religious schools in the form of a booklet distributed to students at some Catholic schools in Lancashire says the UKs largest trades union.
51 - May 2012 - Episcopacy: Brisbane's new Archbishop well-equipped for the challenges, Michael Gilchrist
Similarly there are widespread reports of oddities and much worse in our Catholic schools.
52 - 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.
53 - Apr 2012 - Missions: Where the Church's growth is fastest, Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil
In fact many generations coming now into leadership have passed through these Catholic schools?
54 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
In the education sector 29% of all children in Australia are educated in our 1690 Catholic schools.
55 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
I was taught the faith in Catholic schools using materials that were weak and insubstantial.
56 - Feb 2012 - Books: HOW TO GET EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, by Ian Plimer, Michael Gilchrist
In some Catholic schools visiting speakers hold forth on the wonders of pantheistic eco-theology while sustainability co-ordinators now ensure teachers toe the environmental line in their respective subjects.
57 - Feb 2012 - Law: Catholic politicians and same-sex 'marriage', Michael Gilchrist
Church teaching Apparently the Churchs very clear teaching in the Catechism wasnt mentioned during his years at Catholic schools or at least not adequately explained or justified.
58 - Feb 2012 - Editorial: Climate change alarmism in the classroom, Michael Gilchrist
As another school year gets under way with the Year of Faith due to commence next October it is appropriate to reflect on where todays Catholic schools are heading in terms of educating their pupils in the basics of the faith.
59 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
Its origins trace back to the early 1990s when a group of Catholic parents refused to buckle into the education options available to them including local Catholic schools that were characterised by political correctness new age fads dumbed down standards and a faith education preoccupied with self-development social justice and world religions.
60 - 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.
61 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
The Netherlands is a good example of how things shouldnt work: there is no catechism in the Catholic schools there are no Catholic schools - only in name - but inside you see nothing she said.
62 - 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.
63 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Bishop Morris, Michael Smith
Fr Brendan Dillon PP (August AD2000) explained that he was the organiser of the forum that Bishop Elliott addressed after which he listened to concerns raised by Catholic parents relating to the shortcomings of teaching religion in Catholic schools.
64 - Oct 2011 - Catholic Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Imagine what transformation would take place in our society if a majority of the untold thousands of students leaving our Catholic schools every year were equipped as these 20 young people are to go out and make a difference.
65 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Maria Plustwik
All went to Catholic schools until we took the three youngest out and placed them in a State school.
66 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Fr Brendan Dillon PP
It was never intended to be an evening to debate the merits of home schooling as against Catholic schools but this mother - there may well have been others - had no interest in using a Catholic school no matter what steps Bishop Elliott may take to alleviate some of the concerns raised!
67 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Bishop or Pope?, Eric Rickards
However Fr Dorfield forgot to add that Bishop Bill was also untiring in his efforts to promote an inappropriately explicit sex education program in Catholic schools throughout the Toowoomba Diocese with the possible risk of undermining the moral values and ultimately the eternal salvation of innocent young students.
68 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Catholic religious education: some grassroots views, John Morissey
Religious education he assured the meeting was alive and well at many Catholic schools especially the primary schools where a number of excellent RECs (religious education co-ordinators) were in place.
69 - Apr 2011 - Catholic Church's pivotal role in South Korea's pro-life revival, Babette Francis
The initiative also includes setting up sex education for youth in Catholic schools and Sunday schools on preventing unwanted pregnancy.
70 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
They now administer and teach in Catholic schools in California Texas Arizona South Carolina and Michigan with a new mission opening in 2012 in Columbus Ohio.
71 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency US Catholic schools being closed: identity problem In the wake of the Archdiocese of New York recently closing 27 of its schools discussion on the sharp decline of Catholic school enrolments has once again been ignited.
72 - Feb 2011 - IVF: The Catholic Church and reproductive technologies, Fr John Fleming
Oddly enough this teaching document seemed not to penetrate the minds of many Catholics including clergy university lecturers teachers in Catholic schools employees of Church agencies or even Catholic doctors and nurses let alone many Church-going Catholics for whom the matter has never been really explained.
73 - Feb 2011 - Young children: never too early to love God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Many make great sacrifices to have their children attend Catholic schools so that they know the faith.
74 - Nov 2010 - Canonisation: St Mary of the Cross MacKillop: let the truth be told, Peter Westmore
At the very time when the Brown Josephites the Sisters of Charity Sisters of Mercy Christian Brothers and many other religious orders were establishing Catholic schools throughout rural and urban areas every colonial and then state government was establishing a comprehensive system of quality primary and secondary schools across the country.
75 - Oct 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: The St Pat's Ballarat Tradition, by James Gilchrist, Cardinal George Pell
But many Catholic schools like St Pats continue to work effectively for goodness decency strong principles.
76 - Oct 2010 - Youth: Young adult Catholic ministry: hopeful signs continue, Br Barry Coldrey
Most had attended Catholic schools but were often critical of the calibre of religious and moral formation they received from some staff who offered watered down or dissenting versions of Catholic belief and practice.
77 - Aug 2010 - Troubled future of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
There are clear indications that in the face of so many other curriculum pressures and extracurricular activities religious education is in fact being shifted to the margins of school life in many Catholic schools.
78 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs
It insists that Catholic schools hospitals and universities be authentically Catholic.
79 - Apr 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: Doing it for the Jumper, by James Gilchrist, David Perrin
However this book by James Gilchrist a teacher at Genazzano College in Melbourne is a study of the football history and culture at St Patricks College Ballarat one of Victorias leading Catholic schools at least in terms of its footballing prowess.
80 - Apr 2010 - Religious freedom: UK Catholic schools forced to teach homosexuality in the classrooms, Babette Francis
Betrayal After CES took credit for the Governments amendment implying that faith schools would be allowed to teach their religious tenets SPUC responded: The only people likely to be pleased with the press reports about the misinterpretation of this amendment are CES who want Catholic parents and Catholic schools to think they are sticking up for them when in fact they are betraying their principles.
81 - Apr 2010 - Irish child abuse scandal and cover-ups: bishops meet with Pope, Michael Gilchrist
The Vatican response was prompted by two reports: The Ryan Report released last May which detailed child abuse in Catholic schools throughout Ireland; and The Murphy Commission Report released last November which detailed abuse cases in the Dublin Archdiocese from 1975 to 2004.
82 - Feb 2010 - Editorial: A new decade but the same challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
In light of these factors even the best Catholic schools face an uphill battle to have a lasting religious impact on their pupils.
83 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Greens and Church, Kevin Cains
She has spoken at meetings of church groups and no doubt in the past at least assisted CEA with the preparation of environmental material for Catholic schools a major work of CEA.
84 - Dec 2009 - Episcopacy: Church leadership responsibilities: an American case study, Phil Lawler
How many heterodox speakers have appeared at Catholic schools with not a word of rebuke or correction from the diocesan bishop?
85 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
The essays cover such themes as Catholicism in the age of liberalism sectarianism and culture popes and other mortals religious art and architecture and Catholic schools.
86 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Marriage and divorce, Arnold Jago
Lets hope Catholic schools are doing this job.
87 - Oct 2009 - Episcopacy: Bishop Luc Matthys: on being a bishop, Bishop Luc Matthys of Armidale
The evangelising of the young takes place mostly through our Catholic schools.
88 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan
The present article was prompted by a report in AD2000 (August 2009 page 8) which described the disturbing views being promoted by the leadership group of a well-known religious order formerly involved in teaching in Catholic schools.
89 - Oct 2009 - Priestly Identity: Renewing the priesthood in the Year for Priests, Fr Anthony Denton
While confusion rages in many minds about the true nature of the liturgy and the effects of the clerical abuse scandals continue to be felt vocations have declined and Catholic schools have floundered in their task of transmitting the faith.
90 - Jul 2009 - Letters: Vatican II, Valentine Gallagher
He also indicts the overt and covert feminisation of the Church and recommends our taking a good hard look at the Catholic schools.
91 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
They are trying to fit into their already busy lives study courses at Notre Dame the Centre for Adult Education or even Campion College out at Toongabbie for they now realise how ill-served they were by their education in Catholic schools.
92 - Jun 2009 - Laetare Medal: Mary Ann Glendon's letter to Notre Dame's President
Finally with recent news reports that other Catholic schools are similarly choosing to disregard the bishops guidelines I am concerned that Notre Dames example could have an unfortunate ripple effect.
93 - 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.
94 - May 2009 - US Catholics leaving the Church in droves: what can be done?, Fr Joseph A. Sirba
We have to take a good hard look at our Catholic schools.
95 - Apr 2009 - Andrew Cichy: A bold project to reinvigorate Church music in Australia, Anthony Barich
After being ordained at the Lateran Basilica in Rome on 16 March 1935 the now Fr Lynch returned to Perth to single-handedly change the face of sacred music in that city initiating a program of sacred music education in Catholic schools through which more than a generation of Catholic students learned the Churchs Gregorian Chant.
96 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
From the age of four he attended Italian Catholic schools in Egypt run by the Comboni religious missionaries and later by the Salesians.
97 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
Catholic schools also have difficulty recruiting teachers knowledgeable about and committed to the Catholic faith and are now anxious that being avowedly Catholic in the sense of adhering to Catholic religious and moral teachings may incur the wrath of secular critics and public authorities.
98 - Nov 2008 - Letters: Turnaround needed, John Schmid
But when will we hear of action taken on behalf of parents who see their children give up the faith within a year or so of leaving Catholic schools?
99 - Oct 2008 - School humour: If Maths were taught like religion ...
The following is a satire on how religion is taught in many Catholic schools.
100 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
John Barich AFA British Catholic schools: no late baptisms Catholic schools in Britain are now rebuffing parents who desperate to enrol their children in high-quality Catholic schools baptise their children for pragmatic reasons according to the London Telegraph.
101 - May 2008 - Ballarat: Children's Spirituality Conference at ACU: not to be confused with religion!, Michael Gilchrist
Dr Marian de Souza a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the Australian Catholic University Ballarat where she helps shape the religious ideas of future teachers in Catholic schools says that spirituality should not be confused with religion.
102 - May 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Since I was little I was aware of the Catholic world because I went to Italian-run Catholic schools in Cairo .
103 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The move follows a 66-page circular from Bishop Patrick ODonoghue of Lancaster which instructed Catholic schools in the North-west to stop safe sex education and place crucifixes in every classroom.
104 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: The priesthood: a special relationship with Christ, Fr Pat Stratford
Ensure that in our Catholic schools they are taught their religion by practising Catholics who accept the Church teaching on priesthood and ordination.
105 - Feb 2008 - Reflection: Devotion to Our Lady: eclipse and revival, Br Barry Coldrey
Meanwhile within many Catholic schools the endless concentration on comparative religion and political- moral issues like climate change the state of the environment and the treatment of minorities is short- changing young Catholics and directing them away from the essentials.
106 - Feb 2008 - Books: NO PLACE FOR GOD: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture, Tony Evans
Available from Freedom Publishing) With Mass attendance declining and young people leaving Catholic schools without the Faith and most churches locked during the day because only vandals would be likely to enter them clergy educationists and interested laity rack their brains for an explanation and a remedy.
107 - Feb 2008 - How to reform Catholic education: get the world view right, Chris Hilder
With the release of the Sydney Pastoral Plan and the recent pastoral letter of the bishops of NSW and the ACT (Catholic Schools at a Crossroads) we now have a renewed recognition and commitment to ensuring that Catholic schools fulfil the evangelising mission demanded by their Catholic identity.
108 - Feb 2008 - Editorial: Can Catholic schools recover their 'salt', Michael Gilchrist
As another academic year commences it is timely to reflect once more on the overall state of our Catholic schools and what is needed for a turning of the spiritual tide.
109 - 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.
110 - Dec 2007 - Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences, Br Barry Coldrey
Further light can be shed on the condition of Catholic schools from the students perspective.
111 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Catholic education, June See
Many poor Catholic people who came to Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries at great expense to themselves sent their children to Catholic schools for a sound education and for the faith of their fathers.
112 - Oct 2007 - Protect Our Children: New organisation to tackle doctrinal and moral child abuse, Fr John O'Neill PP
This one is called Protect Our Children Agency having been set up in order to protect Catholic children from doctrinal and moral child abuse arising from the content or the method of teaching in Catholic schools or in any church organisation responsible for teaching the Faith.
113 - Oct 2007 - Catholic Life: Sydney's Pastoral Plan ready for implementation in 2008, Michael Gilchrist
In regard to education Bishop Porteous refers to the recent pastoral letter of the bishops of NSW and the ACT (Catholic Schools at a Crossroads see September AD2000) as expressing a concern that while Catholic education has been strongly sought after the results in terms of young people embracing their Catholic faith are very poor.
114 - Sep 2007 - Catholic education must be 'unashamedly Catholic', Bishop Robert Finn
The following are extracts from Bishop Robert Finns statement for Catholic Schools Week as published in The Catholic Key diocesan weekly for the Kansas City-St Joseph Diocese earlier this year.
115 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
After stating that the Catholic bishops of Australia in the 1880s established Catholic schools in order to serve as the primary socialising influence to make children into Catholics and to form a particular kind of Catholic community based on the model set up by Cardinal Cullen in Ireland Dr English went on to add: By using religious sisters and brothers they were able to do this for about eighty years because they were working with a Catholic population that was mainly Irish-descended and in many ways socially homogenous.
116 - Sep 2007 - A successful quest for vocations in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
The Anima Foundations of Faith Course a twelve week experience run at the Cathedral by Father Anthony Denton to address the crass spiritual ignorance of many well- intentioned Catholic youth emerging tabula rasa from the Catholic schools after those long years of faith formation.
117 - Sep 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
They want to send their children to a Catholic school with the highest standards in academics and discipline and a more traditional approach rather than the modern view many Catholic schools teach now Mike was quoted as saying.
118 - Sep 2007 - Pastoral Letter: NSW and ACT Bishops call for a shake-up in Catholic education, Michael Gilchrist
A timely document aimed at strengthening the religious character of Catholic schools was launched on 7 August on behalf of the 17 Bishops and Eparchs of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory by Bishop David Walker of Broken Bay.
119 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Fixing the schools, G. Brian Bibby
I refer to Brother Barry Coldreys article (May AD2000) and to the secularisation of our so-called Catholic schools.
120 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
The event was organised by the Catholic Education Office which invited Catholic schools in the Melbourne Archdiocese to take part.
121 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
In Australia home schooling is on the increase since most Catholic schools are failing to educate their students in the faith with less than five percent of graduates practising.
122 - 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.
123 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
This also meant that I grew up and attended Catholic schools during a time in which well-meaning Catholic leaders were testing all sorts of innovations in the Church many of which were deleterious to the proper formation of young people.
124 - 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.
125 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: Bill Daly RIP: fearless defender of Catholic orthodoxy in Australia, Fr James Tierney
We reported on defective catechetics the corrosive sex education introduced into Catholic schools in 1975 the demythyologising of the Resurrection at the seminary and the fallacious philosophy and theology courses being taught at the Teachers College at North Sydney (now a part of Australian Catholic University).
126 - Jun 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The role of the local bishop and his clergy is to be strengthened to make it more clearly apparent that the units of RE and the faith activities of the Catholic schools are sanctioned endorsed and to some extent prepared by them.
127 - May 2007 - Reflection: Teaching children about the Eucharist, Audrey English
For the parents of Generation Y and of primary and high school children are often no more than cultural Catholics: their children are baptised go to Catholic schools and they themselves come to Mass when those children receive the sacraments but their attachment to the Church does not commit them to a full participation.
128 - May 2007 - Letters: Teachers' conference, Ron Munro
The reason for the existence of Catholic schools amongst other things is to inculcate in students a knowledge of love for and practice of the Catholic faith.
129 - May 2007 - Education: How to fix Australia's Catholic schools and colleges, Br Barry Coldrey
In Australia there is continuing concern that most Catholic schools are doing little to foster the Catholic faith in all its dimensions in their pupils.
130 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Scourge of the West, Kevin McManus
Is it ever condemned in Catholic schools?
131 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Catholic atmosphere, Stuart Paterson
In the article on Catholic schools The case for radical surgery the author notes the views of the bishops in the late 19th century who emphasised that providing religion lessons was not sufficient - schools also had to establish a Catholic atmosphere.
132 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools
Catholic schools are a problem but so are Catholic homes.
133 - Apr 2007 - Catholicism and secularism in Britain: a test of strength on same-sex adoption, Joanna Bogle
Catholic schools in Britain - which are very popular and frequently over-subscribed - receive substantial public funding.
134 - Apr 2007 - Book Launch: B.A. Santamaria and Australian Catholicism: Cardinal Pell's tribute, Cardinal George Pell
Santamaria made a major contribution to winning state aid for Catholic schools i.
135 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride
For many decades Catholic schools were recognised and highly valued as an essential rock and nursery of the Faith - an essential feature of our Catholic Australian environment - providing strength and virility showing us how to live our Catholic Faith.
136 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
Catholic schools are very successful in instilling principles of social justice into students who continue to hold ideas of fair-mindedness and tolerance even when they have abandoned the Church.
137 - Mar 2007 - Survey of Catholic teachers
The survey is titled Profile of Mass-attending teachers in Catholic schools: A Report to Directors of Catholic Education based on the 2001 National Church Life Survey.
138 - Mar 2007 - 'Professional', a lá carte Catholicism and its papier màché schools, Andrew T. Kania
Our hospitals are among the finest health care facilities provided in Australia and many of our Catholic schools are similarly among the finest in terms of academic and sporting prowess.
139 - Mar 2007 - Sandhurst: Goddess worship at Victorian education conference?, Michael Gilchrist
The low belief and practice rate of Australian Catholic school leavers is well-documented and since the effective formation of young Catholics in the faith remains the central reason for existence of Catholic schools coming to grips with this serious deficiency has to have top priority.
140 - Feb 2007 - Books: SPIRITUAL DIRECTION: Who Is It For and What Are Its Benefits?, Michael Gilchrist
His book is based on practical experience in providing spiritual direction for the young men and women in Sydney who set aside one or two years to help parishes establish youth groups or help Catholic schools run retreats.
141 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
The autobiography provides a close snapshot of small town America and the Catholic schools and universities of the early 20th century prior to Sheens call to the priesthood.
142 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Shared guilt, Errol Duke
The bishops must totally re- prioritise full-on Catholic teachings in Catholic schools as their reason for existence.
143 - 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.
144 - Feb 2007 - Education: Australia's Catholic school systems: the case for radical surgery, Michael Gilchrist
Have Australias Catholic schools outlived their usefulness as far as handing on the faith is concerned?
145 - Dec 2006 - 2006 National Church Life Survey: important questions overlooked, Michael Gilchrist
This would have served as a useful guide for an urgent re-evangelisation program given the ineffectiveness of Catholic schools in passing on the essentials of the faith.
146 - Dec 2006 - A 'best practice' guide to priestly vocations
Catholic schools need to ensure that students are thoroughly and unapologetically educated in the authentic teaching of the Church and every morning see that teachers and students pray for vocations and for those in formation.
147 - Nov 2006 - Reflection: Catholic schools must proclaim the total love of Christ, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
In the guise of being updated for example many Catholic schools have allowed themselves to become targets of this moral onslaught with the new generations brought up with little if any sense of sin or moral responsibility.
148 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
Catholic history in Australia extends for little more than 200 years and for at least one hundred years of that story Catholic schools did more to change Australian hearts and minds than even the extraordinary network of parishes.
149 - Nov 2006 - Editorial: EWTN and the secular media: fighting fire with fire
Weakened family life inadequate religion teaching in Catholic schools and widespread confusion (even among some priests) as to what constitutes the essence of the faith have contributed to the swelling ranks of the unchurched a situation aggravated by the mass medias generally un- or anti- Christian output.
150 - Oct 2006 - Book Launch: Lost! Australian Catholics Today, by Michael Gilchrist
devotes its first chapters to case studies of nonsense and dissent dressed up as renewal; what John Paul II called shadows in the liturgy; and the spiritual shortcomings of most Catholic schools as well as Australian Catholic University.
151 - Oct 2006 - Educating young Catholics: a bold initiative in Wagga Wagga, Michael Gilchrist
In light of the dismal track record of many of todays Catholic schools as underlined in numerous surveys of belief and practice over the past 30 years a return to basics is urgently needed.
152 - Sep 2006 - Books: William Bernard Ullathorne: A Different Kind of Monk, by Judith Champ, Michael Gilchrist
During the 1860s when the state - as in the Australian Colonies - sought to set up unified secular education systems Ullathorne was in the forefront of upholding the independence of Catholic schools.
153 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Stolen faith, Marie Adamo
Demers on how the Faith was stolen from countless numbers of children in so-called Catholic schools can be accessed via the Internet.
154 - Sep 2006 - Family in Society: Asian and Australian families face similar challenges, Leslie Sammut
We all lamented the failure of Catholic schools to pass on the faith to our children.
155 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
Here he reflects on the education he received at Chavagnes and the kind of counter-cultural education that is needed at Catholic schools today in secular cultures.
156 - Sep 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
But Mr Spencer said that this was sometimes believed to reflect the desire of parents who are no longer active members of the Catholic community to get their children enrolled in popular Catholic schools.
157 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
Unfortunately one wonders what the point of this is in light of the menu delivered to our children in some Catholic schools in what could loosely be described as religion in their classrooms.
158 - 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.
159 - Jul 2006 - Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools, Bishop Robert Finn
The work of our Catholic schools is about nothing less than seeing and living Jesus Christ in the midst of everything we do.
160 - Jul 2006 - Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
Unfortunately some Catholic schools have been among the worst offenders in this regard.
161 - Jul 2006 - Editorial: Strong Church leadership: new approach, Michael Gilchrist
Our feature report (pages 6-7) sets out in detail what Bishop Finn has done so far while this months reflection (page 20) includes an outline of his expectations of Catholic schools and their RE programs.
162 - Jun 2006 - Editorial: Pentecost: Church needs a spiritual kick-start, Michael Gilchrist
This was symptomatic of a wider fallaway in belief and practice among Catholics that can be traced in part at least to deficiencies in the Catholic schools teaching of the faith.
163 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Action needed, Kevin McBride
Your February issue is of compelling interest for those Catholics alarmed and despairing of our Catholic schools.
164 - 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.
165 - Apr 2006 - The Domestic Church: The Christian Family Movement: re-evangelising through families, Leslie Sammut
In recent decades our families most of our Catholic Schools and unfortunately even some parishes have become infected with the modern disease of supermarket religion.
166 - Apr 2006 - Salesian Missions: Cardinal Pell visits East Timor, Michael Lynch SDB
East Timor has an extensive network of helpers around Australia; not big business but groups from parishes State and Catholic schools and service groups.
167 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Fortified School, Chris Hilder
Some advice from St Teresa of Avila to the problem presented by Br Luke Saker and Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett (February AD2000) on the dismal performance of our Catholic schools in instilling love of the Catholic faith in its students could be: What is necessary is the approach of a lord when in times of war his land is overrun with enemies and he finds himself restricted on all sides.
168 - Feb 2006 - Books: CATHOLIC FAMILY CATECHISM: Disciples' Edition and Apostles' Edition, Fr Tierney, Michael Gilchrist
At a time when religion teaching in Catholic schools was being stripped of much of its distinctively Catholic content courtesy of fashionable educational theories (as still occurs in many Australian dioceses even today) Father Tierney has stuck to his guns producing editions of sound compact reader-friendly catechisms.
169 - Feb 2006 - New Age paganism's creeping influence within the Church, Wanda Skowronska
Yet yoga has been naively adopted in some Catholic schools as a means of relaxation and parish halls are routinely rented out for yoga classes.
170 - Feb 2006 - Catechesis: Latest research on Catholic school leavers, Michael Gilchrist
Marist Brother Luke Saker has recently conducted research on the beliefs and practices of Catholic undergraduate students intending to teach religion in Catholic schools.
171 - Feb 2006 - Editorial: Catholic schools: how much accountability?, Michael Gilchrist
As another school year gets underway we need to remind ourselves of the essential goal of Catholic schools namely to foster practising Catholic graduates.
172 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
This is because so many people are becoming more aware of the empty lies of the sexual revolution and the watering-down of the truth of sex by some clergy and Catholic schools.
173 - 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.
174 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Equally vast is the educational work carried out in Catholic schools and other Catholic institutions and organisations on behalf of young people.
175 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
Br John Moylan BA (Adelaide) MA (Fordham) MEd(ACU) has had a lifetime of teaching experience and written extensively in Australian and overseas journals on the purpose and practice of Australian Catholic schools.
176 - Jul 2005 - Books: The Catholic Community in Australia, by Robert E. Dixon, Michael Gilchrist
A further ground for concern - in terms of maintaining the Catholic identity of schools - is the large and increasing proportion of non-Catholic students in Catholic schools with 18.
177 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride
Until all the Australian bishops address the inadequacies of our childrens religious education in Catholic schools they and they alone must bear a major share of responsibility for the statistics which continue to inform us that 90 per cent or more of young Catholics attending Catholic schools abandon their Faith upon leaving these schools.
178 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Chavagnes College, Pascale Cotterill
For Geoff and other readers some other Catholic schools that I looked at are also available on the web.
179 - May 2005 - Year of Eucharist: Religious education: Catholic youth have their say, Shannon Donahoo
Most probably out of a desire not to offend the Archbishop - or the CEO staff in attendance - criticism of Catholic schools was reserved to intra-group discussion rather than given as public feedback.
180 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young
This was a textbook for children in Catholic schools and was very widely used.
181 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
Catholic schools will not survive.
182 - Feb 2005 - Letters: School leavers (letter), Mrs M.A. Ross
The first part of his current contribution to AD2000 (November) was no exception except that he did not go far enough when he said that graduates from Catholic schools are drawn into Pentecostal Protestantism or unbelief.
183 - Feb 2005 - Education: State Aid: answering the critics' arguments, Fr Matthew Kirby
A large part of the motivation for this development was to counteract the purportedly pernicious and disloyal influence of Catholic education including by making it financially difficult for parents who sent their children to Catholic schools.
184 - Feb 2005 - Editorial: Year of the Eucharist: a time to get serious, Michael Gilchrist
Meanwhile much of the present-day problem goes back to inadequate teaching on the Eucharist in Catholic schools over a long period including insufficient encouragement of reverence among pupils.
185 - Dec 2004 - New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith, Fr John Walter
Nonetheless whatever their differences they were in complete agreement on this point: far too many children educated in Catholic schools today could not be counted on to grow up practising Catholics.
186 - Nov 2004 - Letters: State Aid (letter), George Caruana JP
Catholic schools and all other schools owe the existence of State Aid to Gough Whitlam and his then Education Minister Kim Beazley Snr and not to the Democratic Labor Party.
187 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
Where these are concerned we are often guilty of labouring under the false presumption that because they have been raised in practising Catholic families and have attended Catholic schools they have also embraced the gift of faith with personal conviction.
188 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
The Pope was particularly concerned at the spiritual health of New Zealands Catholic schools especially their catechetical programs.
189 - Oct 2004 - Letters: State Aid (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
In November 1963 Liberal PM Robert Menzies included in his election policy funding for science blocks in Independent and Catholic schools.
190 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
During your years in Catholic schools we want you to learn and understand some important and beautiful truths.
191 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist
This thinking has mostly governed the approaches adopted in Catholic schools over that period.
192 - Aug 2004 - Reflection: Why teaching in a Catholic school is far more than a profession, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Such is the role expectation of the school teacher in Catholic schools today.
193 - Aug 2004 - Books: DANIEL MANNIX: Wit and Wisdom, by Michael Gilchrist, Hermann Kelly
He immediately electrified his audience by calling for state aid for Catholic schools and criticising those who lash themselves into a frenzy at the very thought of Catholics demanding their rights in a constitutional way and enforcing their demands by use of the ballot box.
194 - Aug 2004 - The Catholic Church and the Greens: why?, Tony Kearney
He was a co-founder of the Federation of Parents and Friends of the Catholic Schools of Tasmania in 1959 and its President until 1964 and a member of several educational bodies in the Hobart Archdiocese.
195 - Aug 2004 - History: Catholic education: triumph over adversity, Cardinal George Pell
He mentioned to me that no system of schools anywhere had produced social mobility to equal what was done by the Catholic schools in Australia.
196 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
At the same time the new prime minister announced plans to cut government aid to Catholic schools.
197 - Aug 2004 - Editorial: New challenges for Catholic education, Peter Westmore
In 1980 the Defence of Government Schools (DOGS) - a coalition of teacher unions and other opponents of Catholic schools - conducted a High Court challenge to state aid; but the High Court dismissed their case.
198 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Abusive letters, Maureen Federico
In regard to the refugee question two interstate Catholic schools were shown to have encouraged children to write discourteous and downright abusive letters to Senator Vanstone to whom an unreserved apology is now warranted.
199 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools (letter), George Simpson
How can Catholic schools provide such a rigorous curriculum and opportunities of deepening of the Spirit when over 40 percent of teachers freely admit they do not believe in the Real Presence and over half dispute other Church teachings?
200 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Ineffective system (letter), John Mulholland
If she were she would have been aware of a number of supportive articles on religious teaching in Catholic schools that have previously been published by you.
201 - Jun 2004 - Theology of the Body: Why the silence on the Church's moral teachings?, Audrey Dillon
While most were raised in Catholic homes and received the sacraments during their time at Catholic schools they can only produce tabloid analysis when discussing Catholic teaching on sex.
202 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Affirm and encourage Catholic schools efforts to celebrate important events and hold prayer services in ways that include the faith traditions present in the school communities (7.
203 - May 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools (letter), Elizabeth Alderton
Instead of sensationalising and bandwagonning about the supposed crisis in Catholic education and playing God in your judgement of parents motive in their sending of their children to Catholic schools how about you pause for one moment and look at the power of the Holy Spirit at work in these microcosms of faith.
204 - May 2004 - Letters: God's house (letter), Melanie Costabile
Perhaps if more Catholic schools implemented this the foundations of their Catholic convictions regarding the Eucharist would not only be more prevalent in their family life but especially when they enter Gods house.
205 - 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.
206 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools
My deep gratitude for the editorial (February AD2000) What is the purpose of Catholic schools?
207 - Apr 2004 - Whatever happened to reverence at Mass?, Matthew Greene
The absence of this most important part of RE in Catholic schools can be seen by observing how many students in both primary and secondary schools visit the Blessed Sacrament if the church is adjacent to the school or if a college has a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament reserved.
208 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Hickey presents papal teachings Special archdiocesan publication for Year 12 students During a Mass at Mater Dei College in Edgewater Perth on 4 February Archbishop Barry Hickey and auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton continued their program of introducing students in Catholic schools to the words of Pope John Paul II.
209 - Apr 2004 - National Church Life Survey: church-going declines further, Michael Gilchrist
In 1994 Br Flynn concluded: A consistent rapid decline in the religious dimension of the Catholic schools has taken place over this period 1972-1990 and .
210 - Mar 2004 - Ad limina 2004: The 'Statement of Conclusions' five years on, Michael Gilchrist
Meanwhile the practice level of school-leavers - after up to 13 years in Catholic schools - continues to be almost non-existent.
211 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
A quarter million leaflets containing the Bishops statement have been distributed to Catholic schools and parishes.
212 - Mar 2004 - Editorial: Archbishop Wilson's challenge for educators, Michael Gilchrist
Of prime importance for those who attended Catholic schools was learning about the skills that link them with the Lord and having the opportunity to find happiness and peace in the world.
213 - Feb 2004 - Books: Mystical Flora, by St Francis de Sales, Mark Posa
It would be a wonderful addition to both family home and Catholic schools.
214 - Feb 2004 - Editorial: What is the purpose of Catholic schools?, Michael Gilchrist
Executive Director of Edmund Rice Education Queensland Dr Bill Sultmann commented: What the research was saying is that three out of four parents were sending their children to Catholic schools for reasons that didnt correlate highly with the reasons why Catholic authorities were providing schools.
215 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist
Many of them looked for a lead from their bishops in temporal as well as spiritual matters given that the same establishment that had denied Irishmen basic rights in Ireland was seen as operational - to a degree - in early 20th century Australia with the denial of State Aid to Catholic schools the prevalence of job discrimination - Catholics need not apply - as well as sectarian bigotry.
216 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart
Archbishop Hart also supports pastoral spiritual and practical efforts that address the obligation of mission and evangelisation while the promotion of priestly vocations is for him a major priority as is the solid faith education of Catholic schools.
217 - Nov 2003 - Social Justice Statements: in whose name should they be published?, Richard Egan
Otherwise a false orthodoxy - particularly in Catholic schools - can easily be attributed to what are often merely partisan political opinions.
218 - Oct 2003 - Books: Crisis In Religious Education, by Eamonn Keane, Damien Tudehope
That Catholic religious education authorities could remain enthralled for so long by Groomes anti- doctrinal and neo-Marxist inspired method of religious education is an important factor I suspect explaining the state of chaos that has overtaken RE in Catholic schools in recent decades.
219 - Oct 2003 - Letters: New RE program (letter), Paul Chigwidden
I can only assume that the Cross is to be replaced by the dollar bill as the symbol of our Catholic schools and faith.
220 - 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.
221 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Thomas Groome (letter), Dr Susan Moore
These materials have been used more and more widely in Australian Catholic schools.
222 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
Pope John Paul II perceiving that Catholic universities around the world had drifted far from their roots in 1990 issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae a document insisting that authentic doctrine be upheld in purportedly Catholic schools.
223 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
Some Catholics even senior students in Catholic schools might not believe in the divinity of Christ the special status of the sacraments the Real Presence the authority of the Pope.
224 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Pell biography feedback (letter), Mary Lou Corboy
Prior to bringing our children home the older children attended Catholic schools.
225 - Jul 2003 - School sacramental programs: evangelise Catholic families first, Fr John Speekman
6) that most parents no longer send their children to Catholic schools for faith reasons it is reasonable to assume that the primary faith task of the Catholic school has become evangelisation.
226 - May 2003 - Letters: Teachings promoted (letter), Pat O'Brien
Into the Deep provides a forum for local Gippsland issues to be raised through letters and articles a means to defend those who are unjustly treated because of their orthodox views while campaigning for the renewal of our Catholic schools.
227 - May 2003 - Brisbane archdiocesan synod: challenges needing to be addressed, Peter Howard
Obstacle The major obstacle to re-evangelisation and mission is confusion and doubt; for who would want to join or follow a community divided by a babel of voices - in homilies and parish bulletins among (Brisbane) Catholic Leader columnists within the liturgy and in many Catholic schools?
228 - Apr 2003 - Education: Chavagnes International Catholic college update, Br John Moylan
All the teachers are talented Catholic educators and scholars who believe strongly that with Gods help Catholic schools have the potential to produce outstanding Catholic men loyal and committed to Christ and His Church.
229 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Melbourne CEO Director interviewed What makes Catholic schools unique?
230 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Accountability (letter), John Leach
Meanwhile until we find a better way the prime reason Catholic schools exist is to give sound formation in the faith to children.
231 - Feb 2003 - Books: The Catholic School In An Age Of Dissent, by Leonard A. Kennedy CSB, Michael Gilchrist
An AIDS program in Ontario Catholic schools was called unadulterated homosexual propaganda and straight social-engineering for introducing children to language and behaviour which a child in his or her wildest dreams could not conjure up.
232 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Threat to schools (letter), Richard Congram
The only reason for the existence of Catholic schools is to impart the faith and doctrine of the Church to its children.
233 - 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.
234 - Dec 2002 - Thomas Groome: his influence on religious education continues, Eamonn Keane
A Notice regarding Morwoods book was issued by Archbishop Pell in 1998 which said that it must not be used as a text in any of our Catholic schools and is not to be displayed sold or distributed in any of our Churches.
235 - Dec 2002 - Education: Most teachers reject Church teaching: ACU professor, Michael Gilchrist
Professor Denis McLaughlin of Australian Catholic University (McAuley Campus Brisbane) made a number of revealing observations about the beliefs and practices of teachers in Catholic schools during his address at the second national conference of the Association of Principals of Catholic Secondary Schools at the Gold Coast from 2-5 October 2002.
236 - Nov 2002 - Books: The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist
Having been left ignorant of the faith as students in Catholic schools they are hungry for solid answers.
237 - Nov 2002 - Catholic schools: restoring a sense of sin, Br John Moylan CFC
Here some attention is paid to two questions arising from Article 44 and concludes by providing some suggestions which Catholic schools may find helpful in responding to it.
238 - Nov 2002 - Australian Bishops' 'complaints protocol' used to uphold orthodoxy, Richard Egan
Dr Watt pointed out that in the context it is clear that Fr Black is stating that the principles of lesser evil and justified material co- operation can be validly used to morally justify parents (and teachers in Catholic schools) in advising young people known to be engaged in illicit homosexual or heterosexual activity to use condoms.
239 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Letters to the Bishops (letter), Mavis Power
To let the bishops know how the faith has been watered down and in some cases even denied in Catholic schools and churches and how this has contributed to the loss of faith.
240 - Oct 2002 - US billionaire promotes orthodox teaching, Zenit News Service
According to the Private Catholic School Network independent Catholic schools encourage family involvement character formation and religious instruction based on the established and unchanging teachings of the Church.
241 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Teaching the faith (letter), Kevin McBride
As Mrs Phillips noted the pathetic failure of Catholic schools over the past 30 years has compounded our faith problems into the future to the extent that it may already be too late to introduce remedial measures.
242 - Sep 2002 - CHURCH ATTENDANCE: The family, feminism and the declining role of fatherhood, Richard Egan
Brother Marcellin Flynns recent book Catholic Schools 2000 (see AD2000 August 2002) reports that 71 percent of Catholic school students surveyed cited the example and lives of parents as an important influence on their religious development.
243 - Aug 2002 - Books: Dynamics Of World History, by Christopher Dawson, Michael Lynch
The second section of the book where Dawson looks at Christianity and the meaning of history is both challenging and intellectually stimulating and should be required reading for anyone devising a history or cultural course for use in Catholic schools.
244 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Value for money? (letter), L.L. Booth
There have been letters in your correspondence columns on the subject of adults being short-changed when as children they were taught religion at their Catholic schools.
245 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC
What can Catholic schools do to help their students have a stronger attachment to the Church?
246 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist
Eight years ago at the time Br Flynns The Culture of Catholic Schools was published AD2000 published a review article titled How Catholic are Catholic schools?
247 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Teaching the faith (letter), Fr James Brasier
I was saddened reading the article by Mark Power in the latest copy of AD 2000 about how the faith was not being taught in many Catholic schools and I began thinking of my experience of this.
248 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Short-changed (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
My parents were good people who took us to Mass on Sundays and sent us all to Catholic schools.
249 - Jul 2002 - '60 Minutes': Archbishop George Pell puts the record straight, Archbishop George Pell
Ballarat in the 70s I was appointed junior assistant priest to Ballarat East - a busy parish with five Catholic schools and a Catholic teachers college early in 1973.
250 - Jun 2002 - A post-1968 Catholic's view of R.E.: 'My generation was shortchanged', Mark Power
I attended Catholic Schools for 13 years in the 1970s and 1980s I was involved in youth groups that were deemed successful and even attended the Provincial Seminary at Banyo for a year in the late 1980s yet at the age of 19 I could not recite the Apostles Creed.
251 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
Our large system of Catholic schools is a wonderful asset humanly and educationally successful.
252 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Victory for parents over sex education Canadian archbishop upholds Vatican guidelines Catholic parents across Canada have long struggled with the issue of sex education programs in Catholic schools.
253 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Evangelisation (letter), Mavis Power
In a recent Catholic publication a teacher in a Catholic school actually questioned the propriety of catechising Catholic children in Catholic schools.
254 - Apr 2002 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2002 - Young Catholics restoring Sydney's Christian culture, Helen Ransom
The Campion Awards in Drama and Art will be the major means of involving Catholic schools in the festival.
255 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The special set of readings used at Masses to complement the Catechism had proved very successful and provided excellent opportunities to develop wonderful Masses for children in Catholic schools.
256 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne 'Sexuality Directives' put parents first, Anthony Cappello
These Directives have addressed this vexed problem area with clear guidelines for parents and teachers on what can and cannot be taught in Catholic schools in the area of human sexuality.
257 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Teaching position, Robert Anderson
I am writing to request any short-term or casual work in the secondary area in Catholic schools.
258 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Testimonies, Raymond de Souza
WA Catholic parents whose children have drifted away from the Church in spite of having frequented Catholic schools are cordially invited to write down their testimonies (one or two pages) and post to: Raymond and Theresa de Souza St Gabriel Communications PO Box 111 Forrestfield WA 6058 or e-mail to: SaintGabrielbigpond.
259 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Crisis of faith, Mavis Power
The bishops and priests need to know the truth - how the Church and our Catholic Schools have contributed to this situation.
260 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly
The revival of philosophy - especially epistemology and ethics - in some Catholic schools RE courses is as timely as it is necessary.
261 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
On the role of Catholic schools in the diocese he said they should exist to support the work being done in families in the education of faith in the children.
262 - Dec 2001 - Obituary: Thomas Kendell (1929-2001) R.I.P. - The passing of a great Catholic educator, Nicholas Kendell
During his long period as Principal of Sacred Heart College Oakleigh it became one of Australias outstanding Catholic schools by virtue of its religious ethos moral tone academic standards and sporting achievements.
263 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
Catholic and government schools It is no exaggeration to say that Catholic schools and medical clinics are vital to the country.
264 - Nov 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas, Valentine Gallagher
Similarly Pope St Pius X states that in Catholic schools: The principles of philosophy laid down by St Thomas Aquinas are to be religiously and inviolably observed (Doctoris Angelici).
265 - Nov 2001 - Editorial: Synod of Oceania document imminent - 'Ecclesia in Oceania', Peter Westmore
Among issues raised were the corrosive secular culture a crisis of faith affecting both Catholic schools and universities a decline in the sense of sin stemming from the deeper reality of a crisis of faith and having grave repercussions for the sacrament of Penance abuses in parish liturgies and concerns over the doctrinal soundness of the theological formation given either in departments of theology in Catholic universities or in other theological centres.
266 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
Some highly positioned and influential leaders in Catholic education have claimed in reputable journals that it is inappropriate to use regular Eucharistic worship as an indicator of the effectiveness of Catholic schools.
267 - Aug 2001 - Appreciating the Mass: a successful new publication, Fr Robert Egar PP
The committee of authors Mrs Jenny OBrien of Catholic Adult Education Fr John Fleming of the Southern Cross Bio-ethics lnstitute Mrs Rosemary Hennig of the Catholic Education Office Mr Andrew Nicholls and Mrs Rachele Tullio teachers in Catholic schools and Fr Robert Egar Parish Priest of Seacombe Gardens was careful to use language that would be intelligible to children in upper primary schools and would also be suitable to adult readers.
268 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
The program includes strong doses of pastoral experience in parishes homeless shelters Catholic schools hospitals and elsewhere.
269 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
liturgy sacraments seminaries priesthood religious life theology Catholic schools and universities and teacher education.
270 - Jul 2001 - The case for more Church History in Catholic schools, Michael Lynch
Besides their own excellent religion courses Catholic schools remained tied to curricula that often not only reflected factual errors about the place of religion in culture in general and the Catholic Church in particular but that were based on a fundamentally different view of history and the purpose of human life.
271 - 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.
272 - May 2001 - A Melbourne artist's labour of love, Michael Gilchrist
Having been an art teacher for 16 years in Catholic schools - leaving this profession ten years ago - Mr Giansiracusa had pursued his fascination for sacred objects part-time.
273 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
The document which was released in March 2001 has a strong focus on the need for Catholic schools to be inspired by the spirit of John Paul IIs new evangelisation and supersedes the 1993 Mandate and Terms of Reference.
274 - May 2001 - 'Systematic instruction in the faith' program to be launched in July, Bishop Luc Matthys
It is my wish and I direct that over a period of four years (each year on 14 Ordinary Sundays of the Year) the whole of the Catholic faith and practice be presented in Sunday homilies in religious instruction in Catholic schools in parish CCD programs to children youth parents RCIA and prayer groups.
275 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
Gay and lesbian school teachers in Catholic schools he warned will want to keep their heads down and ordinary Catholics are likely to hear much more of their old-time religion.
276 - May 2001 - Editorial: A crucial appointment to Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
With much work still to be done throughout Australia to implement the Statement of Conclusions - Catholic schools liturgy seminaries ACU and so on - and the wider challenge of re-evangelising a secular post-Christian society our bishops have a heavy responsibility indeed.
277 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Appeal from India (letter), Kevin L. Fernandes
After they have left Catholic schools - where they get little knowledge of their faith - they do not touch any Catholic literature.
278 - Mar 2001 - ACU theology: how orthodox, how accountable?, Michael Gilchrist
The fact that such theology units are being taught at ACU indicates that the bishops should be taking a close look at what our future teachers in Catholic schools are imbibing.
279 - Feb 2001 - Liturgy: when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' make an impact?, Michael Gilchrist
All of those involved in liturgy planning including members of diocesan and parish liturgy bodies and teachers in Catholic schools and colleges clearly need a solid education according to the terms of the recently revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the Statement.
280 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
This would be a challenge for a number of families whose children receive instruction at Catholic schools but who do not ususally attend church themselves.
281 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Serious duties (letter), Myles M. Kehoe
The bishops recent Social Justice Statement could better be called injustice - to priests men and most women while the performance of Australian Catholic University in the education and training of Catholic teachers for Catholic schools is deplorable.
282 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Toowoomba Diocese (letter), Maria Lossberg
This decline is inexorably linked to the overall crisis of faith due in part to poor teaching of our Catholic beliefs and truths in Catholic schools and institutions.
283 - Nov 2000 - Toowoomba's 'Creating Our Future' - or a recipe for further decline?, Michael Gilchrist
These programs - with catchy titles such as Tomorrows Church - failed to make inroads on falling Mass attendances and individual confessions disappearing priestly and religious vocations and chronic religious illiteracy in Catholic schools.
284 - Nov 2000 - Editorial: Pope John Paul II on the Eucharist, Michael Gilchrist
This is timely given widespread ignorance of the Churchs Eucharistic teaching thanks in large measure to weak or inaccurate catechesis in Catholic schools and colleges over many years.
285 - Oct 2000 - Editorial: The Church at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
Teachers in Catholic schools must be properly formed in the faith especially principals and those who teach religion.
286 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
Privilege To restore to its rightful place concentration on this why of Catholic education and not to be lost in the meanderings of knowledge and acquired facts is it not necessary that those ministering in Catholic schools pray and reflect deeply as much as every day and more intensely on special occasions on the wonderful privilege of their vocation to assist their students to find eternal salvation?
287 - 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.
288 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News British Catholic Church statistics Most students and teachers ignore Catholic teachings An increasing number of teachers and pupils in Catholic schools do not share the basic beliefs of Britains Catholic community according to a report published in late June.
289 - Jul 2000 - Educating Catholics in a secular culture: a Canadian Internet initiative, J. Fraser Field
Vatican IIs Declaration on Christian Education directs Catholic schools to integrate the Christian faith into the whole pattern of human life in all its aspects.
290 - Jul 2000 - Australian bishops' response to 'Woman and Man' report, Michael Gilchrist
105) the presentations by orthodox Catholic women more concerned about Church recognition of the vital role of mothers and families and proper teaching of the faith in Catholic schools than exclusion from the Churchs power structures.
291 - Jul 2000 - New campus of John Paul II Institute set to open in Melbourne, AD2000 Report
In the US there are over a dozen Apostolic Catechetical Institutes which provide qualifications to teach religion in Catholic schools.
292 - May 2000 - Letters: Year of the Lord (letter), Fr Chrysostom Alexander
The degree of dismay deepened considerably however on the accidental discovery that a number of Sydney Catholic schools have been promoting this concept for some time now.
293 - May 2000 - Letters: More on Adelaide (letter), Margret E. Mills
Their example reflects their belief: I have had personal experience of their quite extraordinary faith-filled resilience hopeful good humour and sacrificial charity during more than thirty years with them: as a young single parent I was uplifted and sustained by their unstinting practical care and friendship; while teaching in one of the local Catholic schools I have been enriched daily witnessing parents sacrificial love and determination.
294 - May 2000 - Australian Catholic University student survey, Michael Gilchrist
ACU was established in 1991 as a result of the amalgamation of eight former Catholic teachers colleges and is now according to McLaughlin the largest single supplier of teachers for Catholic schools.
295 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC
Are educators in Catholic schools much more diligent in emphasising the second of Christs two commandments than they are in teaching by word and example the first?
296 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Challenge (Canadian religious monthly) Catholic education on the Internet Resources made available for teachers Concerned about the growing secularism in public school textbooks which are often the only textbooks available for Catholic schools as well a group of educators academics and priests has joined together to form the US-based Catholic Educators Resource Centre.
297 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Missing ‘glue’ (letter), Joseph Taylor
What about todays Catholic schools?
298 - Feb 2000 - Lay teachers: backbone of the Catholic system, Tom Kendell
Since the 1960s lay teachers have come to play an integral role in the effective operation of Catholic schools.
299 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read
But the fact is he did preside over this liberal regime and it was under his nose that very dubious catechetical texts were published and used in the Catholic schools.
300 - Oct 1999 - Bishop John Myers of Peoria on the meaning of teaching authority, Bishop John Myers
They are also charged with supervising and supporting the catechetical effort within their particular Churches and also with promoting Catholic schools.
301 - Oct 1999 - Pope Pius XII's efforts to avert World War II, Zenit News Service
Germany had witnessed tremendous attacks on religious institutions and Catholic schools.
302 - 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.
303 - Sep 1999 - Education: Teaching the right values: a challenge for Catholic schools, Greg Craven
We have to teach Catholic/Christian values in our Catholic schools and be unapologetic in teaching them.
304 - Sep 1999 - Religious Life: The crisis of women religious not confined to the United States, Sr Kathleen Dalton
Over 100000 Sisters taught in Catholic Schools in 1965 in America compared to fewer than 13000 in 1995.
305 - Jul 1999 - Religious education reform in the Melbourne Archdiocese under attack, John S. Webster
Perhaps what the critics are hinting at is that students will actually be taught that the Catholic Church does not teach that one religion is as good as another - an impression held by all too many graduates of Catholic Schools - but instead that Vatican II teaches: a) the fullness of the deposit of faith is to be found in the Catholic Church and; b) the Church founded by Jesus Christ subsists in the Catholic Chuch (cf.
306 - May 1999 - US Dominican nun brings the 'New Cosmology' to New Zealand, Bernard Moran
Catholic schools needed to be reshaped so that children could be educated in the the new way of thinking - the new story of creation.
307 - May 1999 - The 'Statement of Conclusions': how can religious education be reformed?, Michael Daniel
Each year billions of dollars are spent on maintaining Catholic schools whose primary function in this country is supposed to be the nurturing of the faith of its (Catholic) students.
308 - Feb 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
New independent US Catholic schools Rapidly growing numbers Though the number of pupils in a new breed of independent Catholic schools is still a miniscule percentage of the total Catholic school population in the US at about 5-10000 their numbers are growing rapidly according to a feature article in the National Catholic Reporter.
309 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
Former deputy directors of Catholic education jailed Brisbane Church officials plead guilty to sex offences Late last October Fr Ronald McKiernan the former deputy director of Catholic Education for the Brisbane Archdiocese was sentenced to three years prison to be suspended after 12 months after he pleaded guilty to 15 offences of assaults on males indecent dealing with boys under 17 and indecent dealing with boys under 14 that took place between 1964-1977 when Fr McKiernan was either a parish priest a chaplain at various Catholic schools or a scout master.
310 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC
Br John Moylan of Rostrevor College (Adelaide SA) argues that while there are powerful factors outside Catholic schools drawing students away from a lively faith it should not be assumed that these schools cannot be made an effective means of reversing a decline in central Catholic practice.
311 - 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.
312 - Dec 1997 - Education: Tom Kendell of Sacred Heart College: 'an exceptional Catholic educator', Richard Rymarz
This includes extensive experience as a senior teacher in Adelaide and Melbourne working in the Catholic Education Office in the Sandhurst Diocese and in key administrative posts in Catholic schools.
313 - Nov 1997 - Editorial: Can the tide of religious illiteracy be reversed?
According to Br Flynn in his The Culture of Catholic Schools - A Study of Catholic Schools: 1972-1993 (St Paul Publications 1994): In four areas of school life - personal development academic expectations preparation for employment and social development - the level of parents expectations of Catholic schools has significantly increased over the period 1982-1990.
314 - Aug 1997 - Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia: an update, Michael Gilchrist
These speakers were variously critical of unsuitable sex education programs and inadequate catechetics in Catholic schools and spoke out against inclusive language or talk of women priests.
315 - 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.
316 - May 1997 - Education: Catholic schools problems can be solved, Tom Kendell
Some 20% of all school-going children in Australia are educated in Catholic schools.
317 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
There is no hint of any serious re-thinking about approaches to vocations promotion improved education on the meaning of the priesthood in Catholic schools or a review of seminary training.
318 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
However the time has long since passed when Latin might make a widespread comeback in Catholic schools and in the general consciousness of Catholics.
319 - Mar 1996 - New Vatican document vindicates concerns about classroom sex education
But the Councils criteria for acceptability would disqualify most forms of present-day classroom sex education in Catholic schools.
320 - Mar 1996 - Editorial: The problem is belief, B.A. Santamaria
That these beliefs already exist and are widely held in influential Catholic circles creates the problem which today confronts many Catholic parents: namely that a good number of Catholic schools gradually imperceptibly but relentlessly are becoming indistinguishable from State schools whether in their religious ethical even sexual teachings.
321 - Feb 1996 - St Patrick's College, Manly, seminary becomes a hotel school!, Tony Abbott
Of course the arrangement means more money for Catholic schools hospitals retirement villages and so on - but less money for the Catholic faith upon which the whole exercise is supposed to turn.
322 - Nov 1995 - Post-conciliar renewal? Some Queensland snapshots, Michael Gilchrist
That fewer and fewer young Catholics see the need to attend Mass even while still attending Catholic schools is hardly remarkable given the kinds of teaching on the Mass and sacraments in vogue since the late 1960s.
323 - Sep 1995 - Editorial: Catholic doctrines and moral teachings: the time for enforcement is overdue, B.A. Santamaria
The essential crisis is the vanishing of the beliefs once regarded as fundamental which are rarely taught in Catholic schools and only too frequently falsified in the Catholic press.
324 - Aug 1995 - Reflection: A Catholic undergraduate faces the future with confidence, Lucy O'Connell
I see my friends who went to Catholic schools gradually drift away from their faith because of things they have not learned or do not understand.
325 - Mar 1995 - A young Catholic's view of Youth Liturgies, Bernard Finnigan
programs in Catholic schools.
326 - Feb 1995 - Education: How to keep Catholic schools 'Catholic', Tom Kendell
Catholic schools which do not teach the fundamentals of the Catholic faith should be closed.
327 - Dec 1994 - An Open Letter to the Manly Seminary staff, Fr Brian Harrison OS
Despite your open dissent moreover you were entrusted with running Catechism in-service sessions for teachers in Sydneys Catholic schools.
328 - Oct 1994 - Canberra-Goulburn diocese's 'Gender Inclusive Guidelines', Colin Jory
Presumably the document will soon appear in Catholic schools in other dioceses.
329 - Aug 1994 - Bishop Spong at Australian Catholic University - Why?, Michael Gilchrist
Prior to the Spong lectures a With Women a promotional notice sheet headed A Rare Opportunity was being circulated around Catholic schools.
330 - Feb 1994 - New studies raise question: How 'Catholic' are Catholic schools?, Michael Gilchrist
A new study by Br Marcellin Flynn FMS The Culture of Catholic Schools - A Study of Catholic Schools: 1972-1993 (St Paul Publications RRP $17.
331 - Nov 1993 - Brompton Oratory, London: Keeping Catholic tradition alive, Simon Matthews
The monthly Parish Magazine lists over twenty organisations including: two excellent Catholic schools one primary one secondary; courses in the Catholic faith Sacred Scripture and spirituality; a library; a bookshop; a conference of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul; groups of young people; and more.
332 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Since less than 7 percent of young Catholics go to Mass on leaving Catholic schools the over-50s will not be replaced.
333 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
Instead of following the national trend of closing Catholic schools the Catholic school system in the Diocese of Lincoln has grown in number of schools in operation and total enrolment.
334 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
There is very clear evidence that after the enormous moral and financial investment in Catholic schools less than 10% of those who finally leave the class-room have any real knowledge of Catholic doctrine or regularly attend Mass: a condition which by the end of the decade unless radically attacked will leave a mere 10% of the Catholic population practising what is a largely ersatz religion.
335 - Nov 1992 - Editorial: Turning the Faith inside out, B.A. Santamaria
Wherever they conduct Catholic schools and educational systems they do not compromise on the teaching of the Catholic faith as knowledge not merely as experience.
336 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
All of Milwaukees Catholic schools are required to provide AIDS and sex education on the above lines to retain diocesan accreditation.
337 - Aug 1992 - Surveys highlight decline of mainline Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
Comparisons with earlier research data were particularly revealing: Whereas 48% of a similar sample of Catholic students in 1970 thought their work with secular subjects complemented their Christian beliefs in 1989 the figure was down to 11%; In the total sample 90% went to weekly Mass in 1970 63% in 1981 and 43% in 1989; at one of the sampled Catholic schools (Sion) the drop was from 96% to 37% between 1970-1989!
338 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Another facet of Hellwigs writings was evident in an article in the Brisbane Catholic Leader (23 February 1986) with the title What makes Catholic schools Catholic?
339 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
And he repeated what he had said and written on many other occasions about the need for a solid doctrinally sound catechesis in Catholic schools - something still honoured more in the breach than in the practice in this country: It is extremely important that the Deposit of Faith be transmitted in its purity and entirety to future generations.
340 - Feb 1991 - Leading questions for New Zealand's Religious, Sr Micaela Dillon OP
The dissertation published last month in The New Zealand Tablet expressed concern at the state of religious education in New Zealand and warned that Catholic schools were in danger of becoming slightly more exclusive copies of the State schools down the road.
341 - Dec 1990 - Books: Australian bishops tell Catholic teachers what to teach, Msgr John P. Kelly
Will the Bishops be able to ensure that this document is accepted by the teachers in Catholic schools colleges and tertiary institutes and given priority over resources that would contradict its doctrine?
342 - Apr 1990 - Architects of failure on the offensive: US theologians 'pan' new Catechism, Michael Gilchrist
Nor is there any danger these days that concern for the environment will be overlooked in Catholic schools; one hears of almost nothing else.
343 - 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.
344 - Dec 1989 - Can Catholic integrity be recovered?, Colin Jory
Needless to say the Melbourne CEO Guidelines are by no means the only or the worst indications of the loss of a consciousness of Catholic integrity in the Catholic schools.
345 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
The Australian Broadcasting Commissions Catholic expert Fr Paul Collins told a 1987 Melbourne Conference Catholic Schools Towards 2000 that a future Church would have to allow the real decisions such as Church teaching catechetics morals liturgy Church law marriage .
346 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
Doctrinally Catholic schools in general have lost their way; administratively they are locked into bureaucratic structures both of Church and State which have tended to erode the contours of the Catholic faith while obstructing efforts at fundamental reform; politically those possessed of the knowledge and concern necessary to fuel calls for such reform are still a small minority.
347 - Jul 1989 - Making a revolution by changing the meaning of words, Frank Mobbs
For example Catholic School Studies: a Journal of Education for Australian Catholic Schools carried an article (July 1985) by Professor Monika Hellwig of Georgetown University which had previously been published in the USA.
348 - May 1989 - Catholic educational bureaucracies - what now?, B.A. Santamaria
The primary purpose of the Catholic schools system can only be the transmission of the knowledge of the essential Catholic doctrines and moral teachings: competently without apology or equivocation let alone outright subversion.
349 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
READ: In this country there are private or what we call public Catholic schools run mainly by the big religious orders the Benedictines and to a lesser extent the Jesuits and they represent one of the big institutions in the country.
350 - Feb 1989 - The condition of Catholic teacher training in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Australias Catholic schools now overwhelmingly staffed by lay teachers have been facing an ongoing crisis of identity of faith.
351 - Feb 1989 - Editorial: Who are the educational 'experts'?, B.A. Santamaria
An article contributed to the Australasian Catholic Record titled Religious Belief in Australia by Archbishop DArcy of Hobart offers a doubly valuable contribution to the discussion on religious teaching in Catholic schools.
352 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
Children in our Catholic schools should be told regularly that Catholics should attend Sunday Mass and that the Ten Commandments are part of Divine Revelation essential guidelines for the manifestation of Christian love rather than the sociologically-conditioned inadequate efforts of an ancient Middle Eastern tribe or as Bertrand Russell claimed like a set of exam requirements where only six out of ten questions need be attempted.
353 - Jul 1988 - Home education: a viable alternative, Robert Denahy
Lunn argued that judged by this criterion Catholic schools succeeded where their Anglican counterparts failed.
354 - Feb 2016 - Saints: Mother Teresa of Kolkata to be canonised in September, AD2000 Report
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355 - Dec 2015 - China: New clampdown on believers in China, Bernardo Cervellera
356 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: SSM will threaten religious liberty in Australia: Archbishop Fisher, AD2000 Report
357 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Positive outcome of Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba, AD2000 Report
358 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral statement: Marriage Reinvented?, Bishop Michael Kennedy
359 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report
360 - Aug 2015 - Africa: Nigerian bishops decry “propagation of the homosexual lifestyle”
361 - Aug 2015 - Obituary: Fr Greg Jordan: an exemplary Jesuit, AD2000 Report
362 - May 2015 - Books: RESURGENCE: Revitalising Western Catholicism, by Fr James Grant, Peter Westmore
363 - Apr 2015 - Religious schools may teach the faith: Canada's Supreme Court, AD2000 REPORT
364 - Feb 2015 - Martyrdom: Would I have had their courage?, Cardinal George Pell
365 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
366 - Dec 2014 - Separation of church and state: the position outside Australia, Frank Mobbs
367 - Nov 2014 - Youth: Ignite Conference fires up 1,200 young Catholics in Brisbane, Br Barry Coldrey
368 - Nov 2014 - Law: What is the separation of church and state?, Frank Mobbs
369 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
370 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
371 - Aug 2014 - Pope Francis condemns 'Gender ideology' as 'demonic', Patrick Byrne
372 - Jul 2014 - Dubai: is this the largest parish in the world?, Patrick Byrne
373 - Jul 2014 - Nigeria: Oka Obulu Uzo: leading by example, Madonna Brosnan
374 - May 2014 - A new cathedral in the Muslim world
375 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
376 - May 2014 - Slavery: Churches join forces to launch anti-slavery campaign, AD2000 Report
377 - Apr 2014 - Radicalism in Islam: the Christian response, Father Samir Khalil Samir SJ
378 - Apr 2014 - Russia: the rebirth of religious belief, Peter Westmore
379 - Apr 2014 - Cardinal Pell appointed to senior Vatican post, Peter Westmore
380 - Feb 2014 - Books: THE IMITATION OF CHRIST by Thomas a Kempis, Br Barry Coldrey
381 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Climate propaganda
382 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Errors, Peter D. Howard
383 - Dec 2013 - Obituary: Cardinal Pell's tribute to Bishop William Brennan, Cardinal George Pell
384 - Nov 2013 - Books: THE CRAFT OF CATECHESIS, by P. Wiley, P. de Cointet and B. Morgan, Br Barry Coldrey
385 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: English bishop warns on same-sex marriage law, Bishop Philip Egan
386 - Nov 2013 - Culture: Cardinal Pell: defend religious freedom, Cardinal George Pell
387 - Sep 2013 - Hobart's new Archbishop ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
388 - Aug 2013 - Books: CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS: a course in religion for Catholic high schools, Michael E. Daniel
389 - Aug 2013 - University: In the lions' den: Catholic ministry on secular campuses, Br Barry Coldrey
390 - Apr 2013 - Child sexual abuse: looking beyond the institutions, Anne Lastman
391 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
392 - Feb 2013 - Religious freedom: The widows of Kandmahal: anti-Christian violence in India, Babette Francis
393 - Feb 2013 - Royal Commission: The Church in Australia faces moment of truth, Peter Westmore
394 - Feb 2013 - Editorial: AD2000 25 years on: the challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
395 - Dec 2012 - Caroline Chisholm Library: Melbourne's hidden gem, Angela Schumann
396 - Dec 2012 - Pilgrimage: Crossroads: young people spread the message of life and love, Angela Schumann
397 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
398 - Nov 2012 - Books: CATHOLICISM: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, by Fr Robert Barron, Michael Gilchrist
399 - Nov 2012 - Ignite Conference unites young practising Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
400 - Nov 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
401 - Oct 2012 - Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Charles Morton
402 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Appreciation, Frank O'Connor
403 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey
404 - Jul 2012 - Letters: The Year of Grace and the New Evangelisation, Fr Dennis Byrnes
405 - Jul 2012 - Austrian Chancellor's son: How faith helped to survive the Nazis, Michelle Baumann
406 - Jun 2012 - Latin: Pope John XXIII's document on Latin: 50th anniversary, Salvatore Cernuzio
407 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey
408 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
409 - Apr 2012 - Vocations: Australia's seminary numbers continue their growth, Br Barry Coldrey
410 - Apr 2012 - Culture: US Churches unite against Obama over religious liberty, Babette Francis
411 - Apr 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
412 - Apr 2012 - Episcopacy: Perth's new Archbishop Timothy Costelloe ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
413 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
414 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist
415 - Feb 2012 - Books: SLO-MO TSUNAMI And Other Poems, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
416 - Feb 2012 - Letters: SSPX schools, Ken Bayliss
417 - Feb 2012 - Missionary outreach: Melbourne parish's gifts for a growing Fijian parish, Christopher Akehurst
418 - Feb 2012 - Religious Freedom: Freedom of religion American style, Babette Francis
419 - Dec 2011 - Religious education: Different worlds: being Catholic in Indonesia and Australia, Phillip Turnbull
420 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Don Gaffney
421 - Nov 2011 - The Lion of Munster: Blessed Cardinal von Galen: a voice against tyranny, Babette Francis
422 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
423 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell
424 - Sep 2011 - Books: SNOW ON THE HEDGES: The Life of St Cuthbert Mayne, by Helen Whelan, Br Barry Coldrey
425 - Sep 2011 - Books: THE COUNCIL IN QUESTION: a Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism, Fr Glen Tattersall
426 - Aug 2011 - Defending the Catholic Church against ill-informed attacks, Fr John Flynn LC
427 - Aug 2011 - Events: In defence of the authentic meaning of marriage - Canberra, 16 August 2011, Babette Francis
428 - Jul 2011 - Books: STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II, by G.F. Svidercoschi, Br Barry Coldrey
429 - Jul 2011 - Books: A TOUR OF THE CATECHISM - Volume One: The Creed, by John Flader, John Young
430 - Jul 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
431 - Jun 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
432 - May 2011 - University Life: Australian Catholic Students' Conference 2011 a success, Br Barry Coldrey
433 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
434 - Mar 2011 - Books: THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK OF ATHEISM, Edited by Warren Bonett, Frank Mobbs
435 - Feb 2011 - Editorial: Challenges ahead for the Church in 2011, Michael Gilchrist
436 - Nov 2010 - Saints: Blessed John Henry Newman: why he is worthy of canonisation, Frank Mobbs
437 - Nov 2010 - Vocations: Priestly and religious vocations upsurge in the US, Tim Drake
438 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
439 - Oct 2010 - Real Presence: Nigerian priest brings Eucharistic Adoration to a Brisbane parish, Bob Denahy
440 - Sep 2010 - Formation: MacKillop College: Wagga's educational showcase, Joanne Andrews
441 - Sep 2010 - Natural Family Planning: Kyrgyzstan leads the way, Paula Flynn
442 - Sep 2010 - University: Another successful Australian Catholic Students Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
443 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
444 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
445 - Jul 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
446 - May 2010 - Culture: The vocation of Christians in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
447 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
448 - Mar 2010 - Books: LORETO IN AUSTRALIA, by Mary Ryllis Clark, Katharine Munro
449 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
450 - Mar 2010 - Secularism: Benedict to UK bishops: resist secularist threat, Michael Gilchrist
451 - Feb 2010 - Indian martyrs: Present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan, Babette Francis
452 - Feb 2010 - Catholic Culture: 'A small brave initiative': Campion College's second graduation, Br Barry Coldrey
453 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
454 - Dec 2009 - Books: IMAGES OF HOPE, EUROPE TODAY AND TOMORROW, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
455 - Dec 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Eucharist: what the Old and New Testaments tell us, Br Barry Coldrey
456 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
457 - Nov 2009 - Schools: How to rebuild Catholic education from the grass-roots, Sr Mary Augustine OP
458 - Nov 2009 - Campion College celebrates its fourth Year of operation, Br Barry Coldrey
459 - Nov 2009 - Climate change alarmism: a new 'religion' for Christians?, John Morrissey
460 - Jul 2009 - Ryan Commission: Irish report: child abuse in Church institutions, Br Barry Coldrey
461 - Jul 2009 - New Evangelisation: Catholics Come Home: a fresh approach to re-evangelising, Bob Denahy
462 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Church in China, John R. Barich
463 - Jun 2009 - Events - July: Australian Catholic Students Association: continuing spiritual impact, Br Barry Coldrey
464 - Jun 2009 - Sharia Law: Lights dim for Christians in Pakistan, Babette Francis
465 - May 2009 - Letters: Doctrinal differences, John Morrissey
466 - Apr 2009 - Red Mass Homily: Catholics as 'bearers of light' in a secular culture, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
467 - Apr 2009 - American women religious: Vatican apostolic visitation, AD2000 REPORT
468 - Mar 2009 - American seminaries mostly 'healthy', but many problems remain
469 - Mar 2009 - Vocations: Indian priests: still plentiful but fewer available for overseas, AD2000 Report
470 - Mar 2009 - Lefebvrists: Benedict XVI's bold move for Church unity, Michael Gilchrist
471 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey
472 - Dec 2008 - Schools: Blessed Mary MacKillop Colleges: 2009 enrolments (Jindera, Wagga Wagga)
473 - Nov 2008 - Books: A STORY AND PAINTINGS by Don Gallagher CFC, Michael Gilchrist
474 - Oct 2008 - Letters: New schools in Wagga Wagga, Kevin McInerny
475 - Aug 2008 - Education: Progress continues with the new Wagga Wagga independent schools, Barbara Chigwidden
476 - Jun 2008 - Christianity 'lite' with all the hard parts unmentioned: a spiritual dead-end, Alan Roebuck
477 - Jun 2008 - Education: Pope: Catholic education must uphold Church teachings, Pope Benedict XVI
478 - Apr 2008 - Letters: Student generosity, Name and Address Supplied
479 - Apr 2008 - WYDSYD08: World Youth Day Sydney: look for the wider trend, Joanna Bogle
480 - Apr 2008 - Human rights: Cardinal Joseph Zen: conscience of China, Peter Westmore
481 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Married clergy, Frank Bellet
482 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: Signs of hope in US diocese
483 - Mar 2008 - 40 Years On: Vatican II at its mid-life crisis, Br Barry Coldrey
484 - Feb 2008 - Letters: 'Schoolies', Fr. M. Durham
485 - Feb 2008 - What the social reign of Christ means today, Bishop Peter Elliott
486 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Dissent, Brian Bibby
487 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
488 - Nov 2007 - Australia's Missionaries of God's Love congregation continues to grow, Mary Pidcock
489 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
490 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
491 - Jul 2007 - Education: New Wagga Wagga schools take their 'leap of faith', Bill Andrews
492 - Jun 2007 - Youth ministry active in the Melbourne archdiocese, Barry Coldrey
493 - Jun 2007 - New Zealand Catholic college's intellectually challenging RE program, Bernard Moran
494 - May 2007 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Counter-Faith, by Philip Trower, John Morrissey
495 - May 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
496 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Church leadership, P.W. English
497 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Liturgy: what next?, Franklin J. Wood
498 - Apr 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
499 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Reform needed, T. Kalotas
500 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
501 - Mar 2007 - WYDSYD08: Salesian provincial urges parishes to sponsor Timorese to World Youth Day 2008, Peter Westmore
502 - Feb 2007 - East Timor: priests threatened with execution, Peter Westmore
503 - Dec 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
504 - Dec 2006 - Benedict XVI challenges 'de-Christianisation' of society, Michael Gilchrist
505 - Sep 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
506 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
507 - Aug 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
508 - Aug 2006 - What makes a Catholic university 'Catholic', Father John Coughlin
509 - Aug 2006 - Does Wollongong's Catholic Education Office endorse dissent?, AD2000 Report
510 - Aug 2006 - Victoria-Tasmania: Continued growth in vocations at Melbourne's Corpus Christi seminary, Joan Clements
511 - Aug 2006 - Priesthood: Promoting vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Fr Anthony Denton
512 - Jul 2006 - Internet pornography: raising the alarm, Fr Stephen J. Rossetti
513 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
514 - Jul 2006 - Salesian Missions: Church protects the victims of Timor violence, Br Michael Lynch
515 - Jun 2006 - Respect: New text book series vilifies the Catholic Church, Kevin Donnelly
516 - Jun 2006 - Is dialogue possible between Christians and Muslims?, Cardinal George Pell
517 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
518 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
519 - May 2006 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2006 scheduled for Melbourne and Sydney in May, AD2000 Report
520 - Apr 2006 - Has just punishment had its day?, Fr Matthew Kirby
521 - Apr 2006 - EarthSong: Green Christianity or a new paganism?, Michael Gilchrist
522 - Apr 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
523 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
524 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Catholic magazines needed in India, Fr A. Joseph
525 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
526 - Feb 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
527 - Nov 2005 - Letters: SSPX response, Timothy Hungerford
528 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Myths exploded, Nola Viney
529 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
530 - Oct 2005 - Youth: The lasting impact of World Youth Day, Sannon Donahoo
531 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego
532 - Sep 2005 - Priesthood: America's 'vocation rich' dioceses: latest success stories analysed, AD2000 Report
533 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
534 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
535 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
536 - Aug 2005 - Campus Life: Cardinal Pell's program for a Catholic culture at Sydney's universities, Stephen Lawrence
537 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Courageous example, Raymond De Souza
538 - Jun 2005 - The previous Pope Benedict and his quest for world peace, R.J. Stove
539 - May 2005 - Letters: Catholic education, Geoff Storey
540 - May 2005 - Catholic beliefs and practices: the challenge ahead for Australia, Michael Gilchrist
541 - May 2005 - Editorial: Challenges facing John Paul II's successor Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
542 - Apr 2005 - Vocations: Why some new religious orders are attracting recruits, Fr John Hogan
543 - Mar 2005 - A young Catholic's encounter with Latin at Chavagnes International College, Alexander Morrison
544 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Revival of faith (letter), Errol P. Duke
545 - Feb 2005 - Timor Leste: Australia and East Timor: a Timorese Salesian Brother's impressions, Br Marcal Lopes
546 - Feb 2005 - The Church in Australia 2005: can the tide be turned?, Michael Gilchrist
547 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
548 - Dec 2004 - Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first, Cardinal George Pell
549 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
550 - Dec 2004 - US and Australian election results: the cultural revolution challenged, Michael Gilchrist
551 - Dec 2004 - Editorial: Religious literacy: why not a national inquiry?, Michael Gilchrist
552 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Archbishop Mannix and State Aid (letter), T.A. Rigg
553 - Nov 2004 - Obituary: RIP Michael Davies - The passing of a true defender of the Faith, Michael Foley
554 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Organic Development of the Liturgy, by Alcuin Reid OSB, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
555 - Sep 2004 - Books: Interrupted Journeys: Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich, by Alan Gill, Michael Gilchrist
556 - Sep 2004 - Letters: State Aid, George Caruana JP
557 - Sep 2004 - Mission: Sydney seminary's evangelisation program revitalises parish, Bishop Julian Porteous
558 - Sep 2004 - Pulp Fiction: Religious illiteracy and 'The Da Vinci Code', Fr Martin Tierney
559 - Aug 2004 - Books: A Guide To The Passion Of The Christ : 100 Questions, Fr Scot Armstrong STL
560 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
561 - May 2004 - Books: AD Books - More new titles for 2004, Anthony Cappello
562 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
563 - Dec 2003 - Social Justice Statement 2003: a response from Bishop Saunders
564 - Dec 2003 - INTERVIEW: New Melbourne and Sydney Religious Education texts, Msgr Peter Elliott
565 - Nov 2003 - Education: The Catholic Church's one Founder, Fr John O'Neill
566 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
567 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
568 - Oct 2003 - Melbourne Archdiocese responds to John Paul II's Year of the Rosary, AD2000 Report
569 - Oct 2003 - Saints: The Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
570 - Sep 2003 - Books: The Practical Preacher: Handy Hints for hesitant homilists, by Paul Edwards SJ, Anthony Cappello
571 - Sep 2003 - Pope John Paul II calls for greater use of Latin, Denis Murphy
572 - Sep 2003 - Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
573 - Sep 2003 - Culture: Second 'Carnivale Christi' Catholic arts festival scheduled for Melbourne, Michael Gilchrist
574 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
575 - Aug 2003 - Priests 24/7 : A video documentary, Michael Gilchrist
576 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Success in WA (letter), Deidre Lyra
577 - Jul 2003 - Brisbane Synod ends: Archbishop Bathersby to announce pastoral programs, AD2000 REPORT
578 - Jun 2003 - Those dreadful old Catholic hymns?, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
579 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
580 - Jun 2003 - AD2000 staff members awarded federation Centenary Medals, AD2000
581 - May 2003 - Why priestly vocations are up in Perth Archdiocese, Debra Warrier
582 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
583 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
584 - Mar 2003 - Ten years on former Anglicans enrich Church, Fr Peter Geldard
585 - Mar 2003 - Sydney Archdiocese RE test: behind one school's success story, Michael Gilchrist
586 - Feb 2003 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne: a progress report, AD2000 Report
587 - Dec 2002 - Books: Beyond the Blue Glass: Catholic Essays on Faith and Culture, Aidan Nichols OP, Tracey Rowland
588 - Dec 2002 - The sound of thunder and laughter: Hilaire Belloc re-consideredA.G. Evans, Joseph Pearce, biography, Catholic literature, G.K. Chesterton
589 - Dec 2002 - 'New' ecumenism fights secular culture: Protestant theologian
590 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
591 - Nov 2002 - Books: A Generation Betrayed: Deconstructing Catholic Education, by Eamonn Keane, John Young
592 - Nov 2002 - Australian apologist Raymond de Souza's successful overseas lecture tour, AD2000 Report
593 - Oct 2002 - Letters: New Zealand (letter), Kevin E. Fennessy
594 - Oct 2002 - John Henry Newman's critique of liberalism, Michael Davies
595 - Sep 2002 - Promoting Catholic vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
596 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
597 - Jul 2002 - Cardinal Avery Dulles: US Jesuits need 'wake-up call', Michael Gilchrist
598 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
599 - May 2002 - Books: Father Ian Falconer's Latin Course, Ken Bayliss
600 - May 2002 - Books: Demons and Democrats: 1950s Labor at the Crossroads, by Gavan Duffy, Anthony Cappello
601 - Apr 2002 - Books: For Youth and the Poor - De La Salle Brothers in Australia, PNG and NZ 1906-2000, Michael Bohan
602 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
603 - Apr 2002 - Adelaide Thomas More Centre address: The key elements of Catholic Action today, Archbishop Philip Wilson
604 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Forgotten teachings, Mrs Hiske Deschepper
605 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Sunday obligation, Leo Willems
606 - Feb 2002 - Letters: School Masses, Br Con Moloney CFC
607 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
608 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Forgotten teachings, Fr John Speekman
609 - Nov 2001 - Winter school: Evangelising in a "post-pagan" culture, Fr Anthony Mastroeni
610 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
611 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine', Archbishop Sheehan, Fr Peter Joseph, Br Christian Moe FSC
612 - Oct 2001 - Letters: True picture (letter), Christine Slagter
613 - Oct 2001 - Cardinal George of Chicago sacks leading 'progressive' liturgist, Michael Gilchrist
614 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
615 - Jul 2001 - Carnivale Christi: an inspiring display of Christian culture, Angela Smith
616 - Jul 2001 - Thomas More Centre Winter Schools 2001 for Ballarat and Brisbane
617 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Encouragement (letter), John F. Doran
618 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
619 - May 2001 - Letters: Queensland Bishops (letter), Dr Tim Coyle
620 - May 2001 - Letters: Racism (letter), Helen Daniel
621 - May 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
622 - Apr 2001 - Tanzania's Father Winfried makes return visit to Australia, Martin Sheehan
623 - Apr 2001 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family to open in July 2001, AD2000 Report
624 - Mar 2001 - The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ, Zenit News Service
625 - Mar 2001 - Editorial: ACU theology: prompt action needed, Peter Westmore
626 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan
627 - Feb 2001 - New RE texts launched in Melbourne's Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
628 - Feb 2001 - Editorial: New religion texts for Melbourne schools, Michael Gilchrist
629 - Dec 2000 - Summer School of Evangelisation 2001
630 - Dec 2000 - ACU - when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' be implemented?, Michael Gilchrist
631 - Nov 2000 - Reflection: Brother Andrew (1928-2000): returning to spiritual basics, Brother Andrew
632 - Oct 2000 - How language transforms a Christian society into a secular society, Audrey English
633 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
634 - Sep 2000 - Editorial: East Timor: a privilege and an opportunity, Peter Westmore
635 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
636 - Aug 2000 - Archbishop Hickey on Perth's priestly vocations success story, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
637 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
638 - Jun 2000 - One of the great bishops of modern times, Michael Gilchrist
639 - May 2000 - Letters: Nothing to do? (letter), Frank Mobbs
640 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
641 - Apr 2000 - Editorial: For what should the Church apologise?, Michael Gilchrist
642 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Rockhampton (letter), Franklin J. Wood
643 - Nov 1999 - The Jesuits: 150 years of ministry in Australia, Elizabeth Ledlin
644 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
645 - Nov 1999 - New international Catholic university opens Internet campus, AD2000 Report
646 - Nov 1999 - The Church's vital role in future of East Timor, Peter Westmore
647 - Oct 1999 - The UN's war on population confronts religious principles, Stephen Hitchings
648 - Sep 1999 - Spirituality: West Australian Rosary tapes: a growing international success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
649 - Aug 1999 - Order of Australia for pregnancy counselling centre's founder, AD2000 Report
650 - Jun 1999 - The Rosary for Youth
651 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
652 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
653 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
654 - Apr 1999 - A new R.E. consultancy service for the Church
655 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
656 - Feb 1999 - Brompton Oratory: London's liturgical oasis, Joanna Bogle
657 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
658 - Sep 1998 - Archbishop Pell: 'Humanae Vitae' teachings 'are not an optional extra', Michael Gilchrist
659 - Aug 1998 - Australian Rosary tape's success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
660 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
661 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
662 - Mar 1998 - Reflection: Young Catholics: why 'updating' the Church will not bring them back, Rocco Loiacono
663 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
664 - Jul 1997 - Books: 'Banished Camelots: Recollections of a Catholic Childhood', by John Redrup, Br Christian Moe FSC
665 - Jul 1997 - Editorial: Unity is Strength: Division is Death
666 - Feb 1997 - Euthanasia and the religion of self, Audrey English
667 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
668 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Adelaide: Road to renewal? Or decline?, Michael Gilchrist
669 - Feb 1997 - 'Catholic Church Life Survey': 250,000 parishioners polled, Michael Gilchrist
670 - Apr 1996 - Vatican II, 1962-1965 - The next 30 years: to bring about a Catholic revival, Fr John Parsons
671 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
672 - May 1995 - Lincoln, Nebraska: how a Catholic diocese was built
673 - Apr 1995 - How a Catholic scientist stood up for her principles, Marcia Riordan
674 - Apr 1995 - Why Virginia's Arlington Diocese has no priest shortage, Michael Gilchrist
675 - Apr 1995 - New Melbourne R.E. Guidelines: an improvement on the old, Michael Gilchrist
676 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
677 - Dec 1994 - Many vocations: empty seminaries, Fr Timothy E. Deeter
678 - Dec 1994 - Cardinal Hume: the new Catechism must be implemented, Simon Matthews
679 - Sep 1994 - New edition of Fr Richard McBrien's 'Catholicism': but dissent still remains, James Likoudis
680 - Aug 1994 - Editorial: Now that the rebellion is in the open - what?, B.A. Santamaria
681 - Jul 1994 - Putting orthodoxy on the line, B.A. Santamaria
682 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
683 - Aug 1992 - Editorial: The graph points downwards, B.A. Santamaria
684 - Feb 1992 - Authority - Yes, Authoritarianism - No, David Quinn
685 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull
686 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
687 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
688 - Feb 1991 - How religion fares in the U.S.A. - Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, Michael Gilchrist
689 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
690 - Mar 1990 - Close encounter with feminist theology, Dr Frank Mobbs
691 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
692 - Dec 1989 - Challenging the atmosphere and agenda of secularist Australia, Karl Schmude
693 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
694 - Jun 1989 - Australian Catholicism's one million "lost": a sociological analysis, B.A. Santamaria
695 - Mar 1989 - Who do they think they are?, B.A. Santamaria
696 - Dec 1988 - Books: Liberation theology and the great revolutionary fantasy, by Phillip Berryman, Paul Gray
697 - Jul 1988 - Growth of a 'new church': the Dutch experiment, Michael Gilchrist