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Articles of particular relevance to teaching in Catholic schools.

To Educate Is an Act of Love

This is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered on 7th February 2011 upon receiving in audience members of the Congregation for Catholic Education, gathered in their plenary assembly. Esteemed Cardinals, Venerable Brothers in the Episco...

There is no freedom without prohibitions

Rocco Buttiglione is a prestigious Catholic intellectual who in 2004 was deprived of a post in the European Union Commission because of his faith and "conservative" views.  In a recent article for L'Osservatore Romano he explains that education demands a series of restrictions as well as a formation in authentic freedom in order to seek truth. (Zenit report on 1st March 2010)

Teachers as Catechists

Meeting with P4 Teacher – Catechists 

  Diocesan Offices
Paisley 30th October 2008 

Meeting with Newly Qualified and Probationer Teachers

Meeting with Newly Qualified and Probationer Teachers 

Diocesan Offices

Monday 27th October 2008

Pope Benedict XVI on vital importance of education

In a letter to the people of Rome, dated 23 January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI writes that every person and every generation must make fresh choices, without being able to accumulate the progress made in the past. The educational relationship is above all the encounter between two forms of freedom, and successful education means formation in the proper use of freedom.

Virtuous Leadership

Leadership for Everyone  - Interview With Author Alexandre Havard
Leaders are not born, they are trained. And leadership is not something reserved to the elite, but is the vocation of many. These are the ideas promoted by the director of the European Center for Leadership Development.

Doctrinal note on some aspects of Evangelization

1. The Doctrinal Note is devoted principally to an exposition of the Catholic Church's understanding of the Christian mission of evangelization, which is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ; the word "Gospel" translates "evangelion" in the Greek New Testament. "Jesus Christ was sent by the Father to proclaim the Gospel, calling all people to conversion and faith. ‘Go out into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature' (Mk 16,15)." [n. 1]

Teaching Values for Living

VALUES FOR LIVING

Michael McGrath (Director, Scottish Catholic Education Service)

The Church’s recent commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Papal visit to Scotland caused me to reflect upon Pope John Paul II’s visit to St Andrew’s College of Education in Bearsden, then Scotland’s Catholic teacher training college. 

Employment Tribunal

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL 17 January 2007

SUMMARY
An atheist teacher working in a Roman Catholic school applied for the post of Acting Principal Teacher of Pastoral Care. He was not even considered for an interview as he was not of the Roman Catholic faith and the local education authority which maintained the school thought that the Roman Catholic Church would have regarded being of their faith as a pre-requisite for the post. The Employment Tribunal found that he had been discriminated against on religious grounds in terms of the Employment and Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 since none of the exceptions provided for under regulations 7(2) and (3) of those regulations applied. The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld that finding and the award of £2,000 that had been made. Consideration given to the effect and implications of s.21(2)(A) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and an agreement that had been entered into between the respondent education authority and the Roman Catholic Church, purportedly under reference to those provisions, in 1991.

The Calling of the Teacher

Teaching is both vocation and profession.
" Teaching has an extraordinary moral depth and is one of humanity's excellent and creative activities, for the teacher does not write on inanimate material, but on the very spirits of human beings.”
(The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium)