Imagine this scene in a typical Catholic family home one weeknight. Emily, the oldest daughter of a Mass-going suburban family comes home from school and announces, “Today my teacher told our class that faith in the idea of an eternal God is really a bad thing; we are being ‘fundamentalist’ if we cling to the […]
Not Everything that Comes out of Belgium is Fine Beer or Quality Chocolate Recently, there has been a rise of up-market gourmet chocolate shops around Australia’s capital and regional cities. Each is a temple of the chocolate arts – a joyous celebration of the quality and taste of fine Belgian chocolate. Many of us have […]
A worrisome project, which operates in only a handful of schools in the rest of the world, is sweeping into entire Catholic school systems in Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia. Under the title, “Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project” (ECSIP), its central message is explicit: teachers and students need no longer learn about, let […]