It can be difficult keeping up with all the new catechetical resources available on the web. If I go a day without checking my Twitter account, I might miss dozens of links to great web sites, blog articles or educational tools. That’s why I’ve created a Diigo group for Catholic educators. As I come...
Maddie hopes to be a Pre-K teacher someday, just like thousands of other college students. What makes Maddie’s hope unique is, as Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story: My favorite line from the video: “She has broadened what I understand as the Body of Christ.” I hope to see Maddie...
In marketing parlance, there is a concept known as the “elevator speech,” in which one tries to deliver a compelling idea in less than two minutes, or the length of an elevator ride. Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk comes close to an elevator speech summary of Catholic beliefs in this video from TeamRCIA: Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk...
So you’ve landed a job interview at a Catholic school, and you’re trying to prepare. What will they ask you? How should you respond? I’ve interviewed dozens of applicants over the years, and one of the questions we often ask is, “Why do you want to work in a Catholic school?” Here are three...
Catholic Relief Services is on the forefront of using new media to evangelize and mobilize Catholics to live out the corporal works of mercy. Each month CRS conducts a free webcast to highlight a different aspect of its mission to “alleviate suffering and provide assistance to people in need…without regard to race, religion or...
Book 2: The Catechism of the Catholic Church In Part One of the Catholic Teacher’s Bookshelf we looked at the Bible. This article examines the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which Pope John Paul II called a “systematic presentation of the faith and of Catholic doctrine.” If you’re a Catholic school teacher, you probably...
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