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Catholic Church set to lose education stronghold in Ireland (IrishCentral)

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:35:52 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

Some 23 primary schools across the country are set to lose their Catholic Church patronage and will most likely transfer to the multi-denominational Educate Together schools.

New York City Catholic schools explain the benefits of a Catholic education (IrishCentral)

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:01:04 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

In October, several New York City high schools will welcome prospective students and parents to their respective open houses, in an attempt to explain the benefits of a Catholic education.

Women emotionally scarred by brutal treatment at hands of Catholic educators in Rhode Island (IrishCentral)

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:16:29 PDT

By: LAURA BRYN SISSON

In a letter to the Vatican, seventy-seven women called for the abolishment of a Legion of Christ-run high school that they said psychologically abused them into depression, anorexia and thoughts of suicide, the AP reported.

Ulster victims campaigner dubs Catholic school an IRA training camp over Italian flag faux pas (IrishCentral)

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:14:33 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

An Ulster victims campaigner labeled a Co. Tyrone school as an IRA training ground, after he mistook an Italian flag flying outside the school for an Irish tricolor.

Catholic church to lose stronghold on Irish education system (IrishCentral)

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:21:24 PDT

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Has Catholic education failed us? (IrishCentral)

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:30:18 PDT

The latest religious news this week is that, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, non-religious Americans know more about religion in general than self-identified Christians Even when corrections were made for disparities in intelligence and education levels, the statistics still bear out (You can test your own knowledge, or just check out the questions, here I got all the answers correct, but only because I had read about some of the questions in various news reports READ MORE

Catholics can lead interfaith education (IrishCentral)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:15:13 PDT

An article in this week's issue of Time magazine reports on how the Claremont School of Theology, formerly offering training for only Methodist seminarians, is transforming itself into an interfaith institution and will offer programs to train Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams alongside Christian ministers The school made this leap because its enrollment was foundering, and two years into the experiment, enrollment has increased While the ultimate success of the program will depend on how well its graduates are regarded and whether or not people continue to enroll, the fact that it has existed for two years tells us something - that understanding other religions does not have to dim the belief in one's ownA family friend of mine once told her young daughter, when she asked if there were other religions in the world aside from Catholicism, that there were not READ MORE

Catholic Church is getting sex education the hard way (IrishCentral)

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:15:21 PDT

My friends:A great deal of the rage and shock felt by the public about the Catholic Church's self-inflicted child sex abuse scandal centers on a simple question: WHY didn't those in authority DO SOMETHING right away when they heard about THE PROBLEM?Of course, many of those in authority DID do something right away: They either ignored it, blamed the victims and swore them to silence after wrenching, blame-switching interrogations, or transferred the offending priest to another parish or even another country where he was free to renew his evil acts A few sought to send the priest, or the victims, or all of them, to a Church psychiatrist (a responsibility I know well) -- hopefully to both sort out the truth, arrive at a just solution consistent with canon and civil law, and to help begin the process of emotional and spiritual healing needed by allSadly but honestly though, this latter path was the exception rather than the rule And an even less-followed path was simply calling the police, although in Ireland particularly, the Church had built itself a very high pedestal from which to "rule" its flock -- which the police were part of READ MORE