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reggieM
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A good reminder on the importance of catechesis and how often, even students of Catholic schools are deprived of good teaching.
Oakland Bishop Michael Barber: “Students should be able to articulate the answers to three questions when they leave your school: ‘Why do I believe in God?’ ‘Why do I believe in Jesus Christ?’ ‘Why do I believe in the Catholic Church?’”
I once read an Op-Ed piece in The Tablet, one of Britain’s leading Catholic journals, written by a young woman who had just completed 12 years of Catholic school education and was now a freshman at Oxford University. She was really upset that, although she had received an outstanding education in the secular subjects of science, math, history, languages, etc., her religious education was trite and absolutely boring.
She was angry because she could not answer the basic questions about Catholicism put to her by her well-educated classmates. As she wrote, “The extent of my religious education was ‘Love God, draw a rainbow.’”
We need to give our students credit for their intelligence in the religion class as well as science and the liberal arts. Our theology courses need content. Students need to be presented with the in-depth teachings of Jesus and the Church, and the reasons why we believe.
cal-catholic.com/the-extent-of-my-religious-education-was-love-god-draw-a-rainbow/#comments
Oakland Bishop Michael Barber: “Students should be able to articulate the answers to three questions when they leave your school: ‘Why do I believe in God?’ ‘Why do I believe in Jesus Christ?’ ‘Why do I believe in the Catholic Church?’”
I once read an Op-Ed piece in The Tablet, one of Britain’s leading Catholic journals, written by a young woman who had just completed 12 years of Catholic school education and was now a freshman at Oxford University. She was really upset that, although she had received an outstanding education in the secular subjects of science, math, history, languages, etc., her religious education was trite and absolutely boring.
She was angry because she could not answer the basic questions about Catholicism put to her by her well-educated classmates. As she wrote, “The extent of my religious education was ‘Love God, draw a rainbow.’”
We need to give our students credit for their intelligence in the religion class as well as science and the liberal arts. Our theology courses need content. Students need to be presented with the in-depth teachings of Jesus and the Church, and the reasons why we believe.
cal-catholic.com/the-extent-of-my-religious-education-was-love-god-draw-a-rainbow/#comments