Ella Yates, is an American-based artist. She is spending two years travelling and painting murals for Catholic schools. The Presentation Sisters of Ireland, which has links to schools throughout the world funded her travel For the past few weeks she has been at St Bernadette’s in Naenae. She has also completed murals at Our Lady Read more
An outbreak of pink eye has closed all the Catholic schools in American Samoa. The Office of Catholic Education Service, closed the schools last Friday and it was expected that they would remain closed on Monday. The closure encompasses a high school, three elementary schools and two kindergartens, with more than 700 total students enrolled. Read more
Teachers at many Catholic schools in two United States dioceses are facing contracts that list violations of Church teaching that could get them fired. In the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in Ohio, such behaviours include abortion, artificial insemination and “homosexual lifestyles”. Teachers have long been required to act in accordance with Church’s teachings, but spelling out Read more
Severe flooding in the Solomon Islands helped give extra meaning to the 6,000 young people taking part in the Caritas Challenge over the weekend. “We need to be far more grateful for all we have because they have so little and even that is being taken away from them,” said Mareko Ennor, a Year 12 student Read more
The principal of Porirua’s Bishop Viard College is on extended leave for the whole of the next term. Board of Trustees Chairman, Alan Holden, confirmed Tuesday evening, it had grated Teresa Cargo’s request. On Tuesday, CathNews reported that Mr Holden described Ms Cargo’s request as “not unwelcome”. There is much comment in the media that Read more
Most Catholic-educated young people in New Zealand are not encountering Jesus Christ through their schooling, New Zealand’s Catholic bishops say. The bishops have published The Catholic Education of School Age Children In this document the Bishops discuss a number of problems with faith education and the likely solutions. It is based in large part on Read more
A Solomon Islands opposition party says it will encourage greater involvement of churches in education if it forms the new government following the national elections later this year. The People’s Alliance Party says the involvement of churches in education was reduced in 1970 when they were allowed to administer only secondary schools. Before that churches Read more
There are many new or relatively new catholic school principals this year; four in secondary schools and 20 in primary schools. The secondary schools with new principals are St Peter’s College Gore, Carmel College Auckland, St Mary’s College Auckland and Sacred Heart Girls’ College Hamilton. Continue reading
A leading figure in Catholic education in the United Kingdom has admitted downloading more than 5000 child pornography images. Fr Tim Gardner, a former religious education adviser to the Catholic Education Service (CES), admitted possession of the images when he appeared at Southwark Crown Court. Of the 5005 images cited, many were graded at level Read more
Dr Lance O’Sullivan of Kaitaia was named Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year 2014 at the New Zealander of the Year Awards held last Thursday in Auckland. Dr O’Sullivan attributes a real turnaround in his life when he was accepted as a student at Hato Petera (St Peter’s) College. Expelled from two schools before thriving at Read more