The theme for Catholic Schools Week this year centres on Catholic schools being places of faith and learning. This theme was chosen to highlight the fact that all learning takes place in a values context. Monsignor James Cassin, Executive Secretary of the Bishops' Conference Council for Education describes education as being “an education in values”,…
Category: Parenting
Exploring our calling as followers of Jesus
This month we are half way through the Do This in Memory programme
Dad’s Dairy
We carefully create worlds for our children devoid of violence
Nightfever’s simple invitation reaps huge response
Nightfever is a very gentle evangelisation initiative
Life’s Little Things
We cannot always be self-sufficient nor should we have to be
House fire revealed kindness of others
Response of local community was a “spring of hope”
The role of the sponsor is vital in Confirmation
The sponsor represents the believing community
Dad’s Diary
There are good reasons for hope in 2014
Changing how we think about gay people
Church’s teaching on homosexuality is difficult to accept
The New Year is an opportunity to reach out
I’ve a vague memory of last year’s ambitious resolutions for another 12 months but I’m afraid that, like a lot of people, I didn’t do quite as well as I’d imagined I would. I’ve a slightly different approach this year: I’m making out a bucket list of all the things that I really want to…