11 February 2016, The Tablet

What does Catholic mean today?

by Didier Pollefeyt and Jan Bouwens

Tablet Education

 
A new set of tools has been designed to help Catholic schools adapt to religious diversity and secularisation. The academics behind it, Didier Pollefeyt and Jan Bouwens, explain how it works The World Congress on Catholic Education in November 2015 addressed a wide range of global challenges. Top of the bill were concerns regarding Catholic identity, as schools across the world face important questions amid increasing secularisation and religious diversity. So, what does it mean to be a Catholic school and to engage in Catholic education when students and teachers are today more religiously, culturally and ideologically diverse than perhaps ever before?The Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project (Ecsip) helps schools strengthen their Catholic identity. Based in sound theology and the
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