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Catholic education about critical engagement, Archbishop says
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia has told teachers to dismiss criticisms of Catholic education as a ‘production line’ to produce ‘brainwashed Catholics,’ insisting it is instead a critical engagement with the mystery of faith.
The president of the Scottish Catholic Education Service was speaking during his homily at the annual Mass for teachers and school staff in Glasgow’s St Andrew’s Cathedral on September 1.
“Our faith can stand any amount of questions, investigation and study,” he said. “It has always been at the intersection of faith and reason, of catechesis and education.”
“This intersection of catechesis and education is an exciting place to be because it is essentially formation and never indoctrination,” he said. “In your education-catechesis, you invite your pupils to engage critically in a way appropriate to their age and stage with the mystery of faith which you are teaching.”
Catholic education ‘does not aim to produce brainwashed Catholics, and manifestly it does not,’ he added, saying ‘Catholic education is not a production line’ but ‘invites children and young people to follow Jesus freely… and to be members of the Church who are comfortable in their Catholic skin.’
—This story ran in full in the September 9 edition print of the SCO, available in parishes.
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