COREnotes Issue 004
The fourth issue of COREnotes, my office’s catechetical newsletter, was released last week. This issue covers the 2010 Catechetical Sunday theme, “Matrimony: Sacrament of Enduring...
Read MoreThe Spiritual Role of the Principal
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak with some of the new principals in our diocese as part of their ongoing formation. I talked briefly about the spiritual role that principals play in Catholic schools and what it means to be a spiritual leader. This seems an important topic to me because, while principals may receive training in management, curriculum, and finances in their education programs, very few get formed in what it means to work in a specifically Catholic educational setting. There is any number of topics that we could have talked about, but I distilled them into five...
Read MoreCatholic Schools: The More Things Change…
I recently started reading Parish School: A History of American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present by Timothy Walch. It’s a high-level view of the issues that have confronted the Church’s educational mission in America since the first settlers arrived in this country. I’ve just hit the Reconstruction Era and already I am struck at how little has changed in 150 years. Then, as now, priests and bishops sought to combat the influence of the wider culture by providing for alternative educational opportunities for Catholic youth. Parish schools were...
Read MoreOn Tolerance
The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe; they are intolerant in practice because they do not love. - Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP (h/t: Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP)
Read MoreNew CL Podcast – InterActive Connections
The fifth episode of the Catechetical Leader podcast just went live! I interviewed Sr. Caroline Cerveny, SSJ, about her InterActive Connections conference and the Digital Catechesis networking site. Sr. Caroline is one of my colleagues on the technology committee at NCCL; go to www.CatecheticalLeader.org to listen to the 20 minute interview and answer the poll question: How comfortable are you with new...
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