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09/11/2009 - What's Happened to Religious Education?

The Congregation for Catholic Education recently sent a formal letter on religious education to all the episcopal conferences. The letter reaffirms the Catholic understanding of the role of both schools and religious education itself in the formation of youth: Vatican Letter on Religious Education.

Good religious education is, of course, critical to the formation of Catholic culture. But in my last message, I noted the Pope's recent criticism of the "self-secularization" which has done so much harm to the Church, and which has also hit Catholic education very hard. Being interested in exploring this concept of self-secularization, I've written a series on it:...

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