Tag: Religious Education
A gift from the bush
Children, parents and teachers across the Wilcannia-Forbes diocese are discovering (or rediscovering) Christ
Kindergarten is not where you would expect to find silence and quiet...
Bishop Macbeth-Green launches “groundbreaking” RE program
A new religious education curriculum for the diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes is touching the hearts and minds of students as well as those of their parents, principals, teachers and clergy.
The Educating...
Bishop calls for calm on Parramatta RE
Maronite prelate urges prudence online amid media flurry
Maronite Catholic Bishop Charbel-Antoine Tarabay has defended the Diocese of Parramatta’s controversial religious education plans for next year and called for calm from anxious parents.
“Despite some media...
Religious education uproar
Parramatta is standing by its new RE syllabus
Despite controversy over its new draft religious education curriculum, the Diocese of Parramatta’s schools office will continue...
Monica Doumit: Suffer the little children
Well, it wouldn’t be a new school semester if the Greens didn’t again try to push Special Religious Education (SRE) out of public schools.
Greens...
Theresa brings a fresh outlook
When Theresa Ardler graduated from Australian Catholic University with a Masters of Religious Education last week she wore an item that powerfully linked her...
Murray Norman: SRE is vital in our schools
A recently released report has broken new ground in finding that Special Religious Education in our schools provides a host of additional benefits, including...
Monica Doumit: How to make non-existent things illegal
Earlier this week, a dear friend suggested that I might in future be the patron saint of having to listen to the unbearable. While...
Bishop slams Teachers Federation
Bishop Brian Mascord of Wollongong has expressed strong opposition to the push from the NSW Teachers Federation to have religion classes removed from public schools.
Paul Green MLC: Keeping SRE is vitally important for kids
I believe Special Religious Education (SRE) also known as scripture classes is a vital program that belongs in NSW schools. It is concerning to...