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Formation for Permeation: Teacher Faith Formation in Catholic Schools
- 14 November 2022
The need for faith formation for Catholic teachers is an ever-present reality. Modern Church documents – from the Second Vatican Council’s Gravissimum Educationis to the most recent instruction from the Congregation for Catholic Education, The Identity of the Catholic School for a Culture of...
A Convert Stumbles Upon the Feast of All Saints
- 01 November 2022
One of the many unanticipated graces of my conversion to Catholicism seven years ago has been the experience of engaging in the richness of ‘Catholic culture’. Often, it’s something that I find most people assume they are familiar with – to some superficial degree they likely are – and as a result...
Reflections on the Master of Religious Education Program
- 18 October 2022
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. - St. Augustine There are opportunities in a lifetime that humble us from thinking that we know many things to realizing that we do not know nearly enough. For me, the Master of Religious Education (MRE)...
Catholic Schools as Places of Openness, Respect, and Freedom
- 11 October 2022
As I went through my bookcase a few months ago attempting to write a homily (the key word here is “attempting”), I came across an old copy of the famous book by Reinhold Niebuhr called Christ and Culture. Most people would know Niebuhr through his adapted Serenity Prayer, used in likely too many...
2022-23 Catholic Education Theme: “Walking Together in Catholic Education”
- 03 October 2022
This year, for just the second time in history, we were blessed to have the successor of St. Peter visit our home and province, Alberta. The Holy Father came to us with a somber and humble purpose: to support the process of Reconciliation being undertaken in this country. He came here to listen...
