A few extracts from the website of a Diocese that has
integrity and truth
at its heart….
at its heart….
“Teachers in Catholic schools have the privilege of leading
pupils in the faith, nurturing them to a fuller knowledge and love of God
working in the Church. This is or course
no easy task, but there are many resources that can be of help”.
and….
“In a Catholic school the following will be integrated into
the induction standards:
·
The distinctive nature of the Catholic school;
·
Provision for spiritual and moral development
across the curriculum;
·
Curriculum religious education in the Catholic
school;
·
Worship in the Catholic school;
·
The teaching of the Catholic Church.”
….and also….
“The Church as always promoted
education. God made the world, and
everything and everybody in it; and the more we understand the world, its
history, and our place in it as human beings, the better equipped
we are to increase our faith and
hope in God, our love for God and our neighbour, and our love for the Church on
earth, in and through which God invites us all to come to know, love and serve
him.
This means that the schools and
colleges must be good schools and colleges – they must do their best to provide
competent or even excellent teaching through a full and well-balanced
curriculum, in a good atmosphere which encourages achievement. And they must be Catholic schools and colleges:
not in theory or in name only, but by way of a readiness to promote
understanding of and commitment to the fullness of Catholic truth and
sacramental life, even in the face of the increasing rejection of Catholic
values (which are truly human values, to be embraced by everybody, not only Catholics)
by people with power and influence in today’s world.
It is a great blessing that
there are many Catholic schools and colleges in England
and Wales . The majority of these schools are “maintained
schools” and most are classed as voluntary aided schools which since 1944 have
been able to provide education for Catholic pupils and other pupils without
school fees, as all the recurring expenses of the schools are paid by
Government”.
Now, could you please hazard a
guess as to which Diocese in England
and Wales
has these aspirations and standards?
Answers in the comment box
please, no prizes, sorry.
The first paragraph seems to be from Salford, but I can't find the bullet points
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk/leadership/leadership-in-a-catholic-school
Does it begin with 'S' by any chance?
ReplyDeleteand end in 'y'?
ReplyDeleteErrrr... Brighton & Arundel? Brentwood?
ReplyDeleteSorry Mark, I think your comment was tongue firmly in cheek, OPN has it...it's none other than Shrewsbury, home to Bishop Mark Davies.
ReplyDeleteJadis, perhaps one poached from t'other.
ReplyDeleteOoh er - blushes. Should catch up with the diocesan website rather than google stuff.
ReplyDeleteIn the US many prominent "Catholic" colleges have turned into indoctrination centers which perform well academically but statistically students are more likely to leave these colleges as less Catholic than they entered or possibly Budhist, atheist or Protestant.
ReplyDeleteA casein point is Notre Dame. The famous Fr. Hesburgh made alliances that got quite a bit of money flowing into the college but caused a theological break with Rome. Not a literal public break of course, the only thing worse
than a scandal in the Church, is public acknowledgement of a scandal (see homosexual clergy scandal). The book Is Notre Dame Still Catholic? is quite informative on that topic.
Since the governments of the USA and England are both fairly anti-Christianity and specifically anti-Catholic this may be an issue for your side of the Atlantic as well. Just my two cents worth of blabbing.
And then there is The University of San Diego. As a fairly recent convert in the 1970s I attended, hoping for a Catholic education, and in the case of individual instructors and professors, that was so. Institutionally, though, the place was an abyss of political fashion, making all the right noises but little more. I was some seven years paying off my loans (I was poor, but not the correct sort of poor), and know now that I should have attended a public university. THE WANDERER reports that USD now sponsors an annual transgender fashion show.
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