Keywords: Catholic High Schools
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 22 March 2010
2 Comments
Text from Fr Frank Brennan SJ's presentation Poverty and
Plenty: Where Do or Should Christians Stand? at the Centre for an
Ethical Society as part of the 2010 Series Forum at the Australian
Centre for Christianity and Culture, 17 March 2010.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 03 February 2010
7 Comments
It is disingenuous for Labor education ministers' to say MySchool will create political pressure to boost 'under-performing' schools. Meanwhile parents, voting with their feet, may foster the very outcomes they fear: underprivileged, low-morale schools breeding a
generation of alienated, under-achieving kids.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 January 2010
8 Comments
Jesuit Fr Jean-Yves Calvez's 1957 work La pensée de Karl Marx was as much studied in Communist
cells as in Catholic circles. Fr Calvez systematically studied Catholic Social Teaching, and his impact on Catholic attitudes was enormous but diffuse.
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EDUCATION
- Teresa Russell
- 29 September 2009
20 Comments
According to NSW education policy, if a parent wants their child to opt out of religious education, that child is not
entitled to any instruction during
this period. An alliance of parents and educators is pushing for an ethics-based alternative to religious education.
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INFORMATION
- Stephen Elder
- 25 August 2009
1 Comment
The misguided claims made by Ross Fitzgerald in a recent article in Eureka Street, How Catholic schools are failing the poor, cannot go unanswered.
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INFORMATION
Ross Fitzgerald claims Catholic schools 'have become the instrument through which tax dollars are siphoned off public schools and given to the private sector'. His argument is a misrepresentation of the facts.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Moira Rayner
- 13 August 2009
What do our major religions have to fear from changes to equal
opportunity law? The challenge is a worthy and a practical one: in what way do the
activities of religious institutions actually reflect the values of
their prophets and visionaries.
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AUSTRALIA
It is time we stopped allowing football
administrators, advertisers and television stations to set the standards for ethical behaviour. The only way that
the current unethical rugby league culture can be removed is for the
code itself to disappear.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 13 May 2009
3 Comments
Rudd Labor's first Budget last year seemed to indicate a turn towards a fairer Australia. After the scripted theatre of pre-budget
leaks, secure lock-ups and dazzling announcements are stripped away,
the 2009–10 Budget indicates we may be waiting for a
long time yet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Greg O'Kelly
- 13 March 2009
5 Comments
The decades spanning the 1920s–1970s were times of intense change for Australia and the Church. Post war immigration, the Labor split, the Vietnam War and Vatican II all occurred during 'Matty' Beovich's time as Archbishop of Adelaide.
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