Sentences with phrase «catholic faith schools»

He told the Today programme: «A Catholic faith school can say to their pupils we believe as a religion contraception is wrong but what they can't do is therefore say that they are not going to teach them about contraception to children and how to access contraception.

This was made quite clear by Ed Balls, minister for Children Schools and Families when he said on 23 February 2010, «A Catholic faith school can say to their pupils we believe as a religion contraception is wrong but what they can't do is therefore say that they are not going to teach them about contraception to children, how to access contraception or how to use contraception.»

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After a successful 32 - year investment banking career, Bill Henson, a decade ago, made the transition to inner city education, initially joining the board of Cristo Rey New York High School, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all fSchool, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all fschool that educates children of all faiths.

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The Catholic Church has rejected criticism over plans to remove the cap on the number of children from one particular faith that a school can select.

The head of the Catholic Education Service has said it will be «dreadful» if faith schools exploit new rules to take children from only their religion.

The teachers at two different Catholic schools, as well as many years of Cathecism taught me that questioning your faith is a natural and desirable trait, since when your faith wins, it will have grown to be that much stronger.

I did however go to a Catholic school, and let me tell you that I do not like the Christian faith.

Well, bring it on: it is all an excellent opportunity for bishops to explain what Catholic education is really for, and to declare plainly that if the State expects our schools to abandon the Catholic faith as a quid pro quo for receiving Catholic tax - payers» money, then that is an expectation we are not prepared to satisfy: and then, we will have to take the consequences.

The majority of these are CofE schools, then Roman Catholic; other faiths constitute just a tiny handful of these state - maintained schools.

Winner of the Award was Kieran Breathnach of Oaklands Catholic School, Waterlooville, Hampshire, and FAITH magazine has pleasure in publishing his essay.

He says the school never questioned his abilities, loyalty or dedication to the Catholic faith.

In many Catholic secondary school classes, there are few young people who enthusiastically practise the faith.

The alternative would be to make a tactical retreat, hand over our schools gradually to the state, and insist on the right of Catholic pupils in state education to be treated with the same consideration as people of other faiths.

She was instructed in the faith by one of the sisters at her school in California; and her Catholic faith was further deepened through her study of the Baltimore Catechism.

Many Catholics still suppose (as I did when 20 years ago I crossed the Tiber) that one way to pass on the faith to our children is to send them to a Catholic school.

There is, as the excellent Mrs Daphne McLeod has pointed out, a «total failure to teach the authentic Catholic Faith in Catholic schools, resulting in a staggering 90 \ % lapsation rate among school leavers».

Can Catholic parents presume that Catholic schools will teach their children the Catholic faith?

One thing I can say with certainty is that whilst, of course, the task of the Catholic teacher in a Catholic school is to take seriously his / her part in passing on the Faith, this can not be done successfully solely by telling.

Second, there are cultural Catholics, writers who were raised in the faith and often educated in Catholic schools.

But there were others who tried to reconcile the insights coming out of this experience with the monotheistic affirmations of biblical faith» such as Isaac Luria, the principal theorist of the Safad school of the Kabbalah; or Bonaventure, who sought to retain the speculations of radical Franciscanism within the fold of Catholic orthodoxy; or al - Ghazzali, whose intellectual lifework was the intellectual integration of the Sufi experience with orthodox Islam.

The Catholic Education Service (CES) has been left furious after inspectors downgraded a faith secondary school from «good» to «requires improvement».

For me, the prime attraction was attending a school that took its Catholic identity seriously and would educate me in the faith's intellectual tradition.

He grew up in Catholic schools and says he feels strongly about his faith and the role it should play in Italy.

• It makes the clear assertion that the «primary purpose» of the Catholic school is «formation in the faith».

A Catholic school must teach the Catholic faith — including the Church's teachings on marriage and family life, in ways that are appropriate for the children's ages and needs.

The politicians claimed «Catholic schools are also more likely to be oversubscribed from people outside their faith community than Islamic and Hindu Schools, to which non-Muslims and non-Hindus rarely apply&schools are also more likely to be oversubscribed from people outside their faith community than Islamic and Hindu Schools, to which non-Muslims and non-Hindus rarely apply&Schools, to which non-Muslims and non-Hindus rarely apply».

Why not just have the simple, straightforward Catholic faith, unassociated with any theological school or cachet?

A key element of Cardinal Manning's vision was that Catholic Schools must be allowed sufficient autonomy to integrate the catholic faith into every aspect of schoCatholic Schools must be allowed sufficient autonomy to integrate the catholic faith into every aspect of schocatholic faith into every aspect of school life.

I left the Catholic church because after 8 years of Catholic school and untold hours of religious education I didn't see any real faith in the clergy or the parishioners I knew.

Even though we know that their domestic family is the first place where they should learn the faith, in truth many only really begin to learn it, if at all, in the Catholic School which is increasingly having to b e in loco parentisi n a unique way and which links the child to the widerChurch family through the parish.

This is consistent with the research on Catholic and other faith - based schools, suggesting that religious instruction provides a better standpoint for critical engagement with the dominating culture than does a public school immersed in that culture.

I intend argue the following three points: First, these maintained schools are, in general, not even attempting to teach the integral Catholic faith, let alone successfully doing so.

The best school in his town was the Roman Catholic school so he understands The Christian Faith but adheres to Islam.

Professor Gerard V. Bradley has an interesting and thoughtful piece up today over at NRO, in which he laments the demise of numerous Catholic colleges / universities and encourages Catholics to bring the faith to secular schools (where the vast majority of Catholics are now being educated):

If you get rid of the crucifixes in the schools, the children will likely grow up with no strong feelings of association with the Catholic church and that would REALLY strike a blow to the already decreasing numbers of the Catholic faith.

As a Catholic school parent, I enjoyed reading Charles Glenn's optimistic assessment of the future of religious schools in «Faith - Based Resistance» (December).

One standard cause for indignation in the current generation of young Catholics is: «We didn't get any proper teaching about the Catholic faith at my Catholic school.»

These schools are complying with government requirements (at the time of writing, see Eric Hester's «Sex Education or Chastity Education: Church Teaching and Civil Law», in Faith, July 2007) to teach SRE, at the same time as upholding their Catholic ethos and protecting children from premature details about sex.

With growth in Catholic colleges and universities that take their faith seriously, and with schools like Aquinas College forming a generation of teachers, there are more than enough reasons for hope.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Joseph A Quigley FAITH Magazine September - October 2007 Context For many years before 1997, Catholic schools had had to adapt commercially produced sex education programmes for use with their students.

Contextual Spirituality: In Bolivia, where over 99 % percent of the population identifies themselves as either «Christian» or «Catholic» World Vision staff is free to partner with local churches (of various denominations) to help host Bible schools and faith - related activities.

For example, sex within marriage is promoted as the ideal of the Catholic faith, but the school explicitly recognises the reality that some young people may choose to be sexually active and, if that is the case, they need the knowledge and confidence to make an informed choice to protect themselves from pregnancy and STIs.

A certain king of that region, of the school of Nestorian Christians, who was of the race of that great king who was called Prester John of India, attached himself to me the first year of my coming hither and, being converted by me to the truth of the true Catholic faith, took the lesser orders and wearing the sacred vestments served me as I celebrated; so that the other Nestorians accused him of apostasy.

The Tablet (an old enemy of Fr Finigan) naturally supported the CES in all this, noting in shocked tones that «The Catholic Education Service... is being denounced from the Catholic Right for having any truck at all with Mr Balls» proposals, with or without his concessions to faith schools.»

Sacred Heart is a Catholic, independent school welcoming families of all faiths to our kindergarten through eighth grade program.

Of these, 4,601 are Church of England, 1,986 Roman Catholic, 26 Methodist, 152 of other Christian faiths, 48 Jewish, 18 Muslim and eight Sikh; and 763 of these faith schools are academies or free schools.

In 2011, about one third of the 20,000 state funded schools in England were faith schools, [9] approximately 7,000 in total, of which 68 % were Church of England schools and 30 % were Roman Catholic.

The Bishop's decision caused an uproar in Scranton's heavily unionized Catholic community and reignited the national debate over union protection under state law for teachers in religious schools of all faiths.