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Religious Teaching in Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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In to my experience it is certainly the case that a lot of educationalists in this country become genuinely bewildered, distressed, shocked and even angry when they hear it suggested that we should take the scriptures and not the catechism as the source of our religious instruction. some people are willing to admit that some change in our catechism might not be a bad thing, but very few are prepared to listen to the argument that what we need is a new conception of the function of the catechism rather than a new catechism. Everybody seems to be assumging that those in favour of our present methods are loyally upholding such immunities as the Church's attitude, authority or tradition, and that those who suggest a change are propounding strange, dangerous theories culled from disreputable sources and dubious disciplines.

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Copyright © 1962 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Teaching all Nations, a symposium on modem catechetics, edited by Johannes Hofinger, s.j.; English version by Clifford Howell, s.j.; Herder, Burns Oates Ltd, 35s.

2 Ibid. The core of missionary preaching.

3 Ibid. A good catechism.

4 New Left Review. September-October. No. II (3s. 6d.).

5 Ibid. Education for maturity.

6 Lumen Vitae. A quarterly review, edited by the International Centre for Studies in Religious Education. English edition from Duckett, 35s.