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Living Love RSE Resource for Junior Cycle

Living Love RSE Resource for Junior Cycle

Living Love is a Relationships and Sexuality Education resource developed for Catholic post-primary schools on the island of Ireland for 12 to 15 year olds. It has been launched in all Catholic schools in Northern Ireland and will be used in Catholic schools in the...

We Are Called Too: The Missionary Life of Persons with Disabilities

We Are Called Too: The Missionary Life of Persons with Disabilities

Ana Martinez presents this talk on Catechesis with persons with disabilities. She will focus on Catholic religious education, vocational discernment, and the universal call to every Catholic to share the Gospel and how it pertains to persons with disabilities. Ana is...

Catechesis in Contemporary Society

Catechesis in Contemporary Society

Rev Dr Renè Camilleri, Emeritus National Director for Catechetics and Episcopal Vicar for Evangelisation for the Archdiocese of Malta, spoke to members of the Council for Catechetics of the Irish Episcopal Conference at their retreat at Mount St Joseph's Abbey,...

NCCA Consultation on Structure and Time in Primary Curriculum

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) has recently launched a consultation process on structure and time in the Primary Curriculum.  The NCCA reports that  the 1999 Primary curriculum has provided a strong foundation for teaching and...

You and your child’s spiritual development: aged 2 to 8

You and your child’s spiritual development: aged 2 to 8

This PowerPoint Presentation was developed by the Council for Catechetics with the asssistance of Dr. Cora O'Farrell, DCU. The PowerPoint outlines the spiritual development of children from the age of about 2 and a half to about the age of 7 or 8. Also attached here...

Launch of new Catholic religious education curriculum and programme

Launch of new Catholic religious education curriculum and programme

On Monday 28 September Bishop Brendan Leahy, Chair of the Bishops’ Council for Catechetics launched the new Catholic Preschool and Primary School Religious Education Curriculum for Ireland (2015), and its related religious education programme Grow in Love in the...