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Issue: #6 May/2009
Dear Reader,

This issue of Beyond the Test is devoted to role of religion in the Catholic school. Our feature articles discuss the intellectual nature of religion class and the central role of the liturgy in the school.


 
PASSING ON THE CATHOLIC FAITH

St. Jerome Recommendations to Improve Catholic Schools
Passing on the Catholic faith is not limited to religion class, but involves the entire curriculum and the entire school community. A recently prepared study paper from the Vancouver Archdiocese made six recommendations to help Catholic schools in this most important task. The recommendations below are excerpted from that study paper.
 
 
SACRED THEOLOGY

Catholic Mass "Queen of the Sciences"
In a National Catholic Register interview, Francis Beckwith, a former president of the Evangelical Theological Society who recently returned to the Church, explained why he left the Catholic Church in the first place.
 
 
FEATURED SCHOOL
Holy Family AcademyRegina Coeli Academy
Michelle Fowler, headmistress of Regina Coeli Academy outside Philadelphia, attributes much of her school's success to the teachers. "Our success comes first from teachers living the faith and teaching the faith, teachers who are faithful to the Magisterium.
 
 
RESOURCE CENTER
Trivium image The Religious Potential of the Child
I don't often do this, recommend a book (or in this case books) that I have not finished reading myself, but I am going to make an exception this time because of the impression that the ideas in this book made on me when I saw them at work.
 
 

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