This monograph includes six papers presented at a meeting sponsored by the Departments of Religious Education and Secondary Schools of the National Catholic Education Association. The papers include: (1) "What Makes a School Catholic?" (William J. O'Malley); (2) "Catholicity: A Tradition of Contemplation" (Thomas Keating); (3) "Catholic Identity and the Church" (James Heft); (4) "Building a Religion Curriculum" (Thomas Zanzig); (5) "Facilitating Student's Self Image" (Mark Link); and (6) "Justice and Peace: Constitutive Elements of Catholicity" (Loretta Carey). (KM)
"Offers the spiritual foundations that should define/suffuse Catholic education, at every level, to ensure that Catholic schools are providing the education that they promise"--
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart ...
This complete and highly readable overview of the Catholic faith explains how living fully is found in knowing three things: that God is real, that He communicates with us, and that He wants us to respond.
Several years ago, Joseph Bernardin, then cardinal archbishop of Chicago, launched the “Common Ground” project. Motivated in part by his desire to overcome a polarization among Catholics that was exaggerated by the media, Bernardin ...
Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "theology of Liberation"
In When Work Disappears, Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson (1996) notes that African Americans in Chicago who attended Catholic schools are viewed more favorably by employers than African Americans who attended public schools.
Gibson et al., “Social Integration,” 542, 552; Albert Hunter and Terry L. Baumer, “Street Traffic, Social Integration and Fear of Crime,” Social Inquiry 52 (1982): 123–31; Pamela Wilcox Rountree and Kenneth C. Land, ...
How coherent is the claim that Catholic education is both distinctive and inclusive?
The book concludes with examples of Catholic schools that have successfully undergone renewal.