http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Claremont+School+of+Theology IrishCentral Claremont School of Theology en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/finnegans_awake/catholics-can-lead-interfaith-education-102019608.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/finnegans_awake/catholics-can-lead-interfaith-education-102019608.html 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 ]]>