Tag: Education

The Vatican recently released a document on Catholic schools called The identity of the Catholic school for a culture of dialogue. Among other things, it’s a template for Catholic bishops across the world to take responsibility for deciding exactly which of their local schools can use the ‘Catholic’ brand.

At the annual archdiocesan Mass, Sydney’s longest serving catechists have been honoured for a lifetime’s service to the Church.

With Easter approaching and the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus about to be remembered and sanctified, it’s timely to reflect on to what extent schools provide an enriching and worthwhile education; one that enables students to be morally grounded, spiritually enriched and imbued with a deep appreciation of the significance and value of Christianity.

Teachers work hard, and I mean really hard. On any given day they are instructional specialists, counsellors, trusted colleagues and confidantes.

Dallas McInerney, chief executive officer of Catholic Schools NSW, has gone back to class to learn from global leaders in the area of academic...

A recent research paper titled Parents’ perspectives on the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity in K-12 schooling: results from an Australian national study...

Radical gender activists and ideologues are increasingly successful in getting at children. Now, if you support parental rights in relation to kids you’re out...

Open Days 2023 The Catholic Weekly’s Catholic Schools OPEN DAYS feature is a great opportunity to highlight your school’s facilities and provides a focus for...

In his Occasional Address at the Campion College graduation ceremony on Wednesday, journalist and author Greg Sheridan described the liberal arts college’s mission as nothing less than the re-enchantment of Western culture.

While published in 1995, Christopher Lasch in The Revolt of the Elites makes a number of prescient points about what is now known as cancel-culture. Years before neo-Marxist-inspired critical theory become the new orthodoxy Lasch warned about how minority groups were challenging Western societies. Lasch writes in relation to American colleges and universities: “Having discredited […]

Peter Turner embodies what Catholic education is about Turning a bunch of paddocks and chicken sheds into a first-class Catholic college in Sydney’s south west...

Eunice Woo shares what drew her to teach Scripture to children in state schools Jesus said to the apostles:" The harvest is plentiful, but the...