Tag: Religious Education
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...
Dr Greg Walsh: Laws will neutralise education
Religious schools may again be under threat from proposed changes to the Sex Discrimination Act when the Commonwealth Parliament resumes on 11 February. In...
Catechists under threat in State schools
The debate around the validity of faith-based Special Religious Education (SRE) in NSW Government Schools was reinvigorated when the Secondary Principals’ Council, in their...
Janina Starkey: Bringing back the patrimony
By Janina Starkey
Earlier this year, teachers of Religious Education across NSW, began preparing to implement a new senior course of study in Catholic Schools.
This...
Students to be taught authentic Catholicism
A radical new Religious Education curriculum has been launched in the “School Room” at Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney.
It’s designed to help Catholic...
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Christ’s Cross helped me avoid bitterness: Cardinal George Pell
He said there is no doubt the Church throughout the western world faces a serious situation demographically and politically, but he remains optimistic and sees signs of renewal especially in new Church realities such as Opus Dei and the Neocatechumenal Way
