If you don” have a college degree, you’re less likely to be up early on Sunday morning, singing church hymns.
That’s the upshot of a new study that finds the decline in church attendance since the 1970s among white Americans without college degrees is twice as high as for those with college degrees.
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The head of the Sabbath Day Christian Revival Church, Pastor Vilikesa Raqio, has requested the Fiji Government to reconsider its stand on religious groups that keep their children out of school. Mr Raqio said he supported the Government’s intention to send all school-aged children to school, but said “I strongly feel that those religious groups that Read more
St Patricks College pupil, Kieran Meredith says it is making a difference that drives him. He is one of fifty young people seleced to take part in New Zealand’s first UNICEF Youth Congress. Kieran is in year 12 at St Patrick’s College Kilbirnie. Earlier this year he started a programme to lift the achievement of Maori and Pacific Island Read more
Former Principal of Dunedin’s Kavanagh College, Paul Ferris, has been appointed Interim Head of the Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand. He will fill this position until a permanent Principal is in place, most likely early next year. Mr Ferris will begin in July and will work closely with the Institute Council. He will be Read more
In PNG there has been a call for an equal partnership in education between the government and the Churches. Churches continue to play a major role in educating its six million people. Yet churches are not considered as equal partners by the government when it comes to making decisions on the national education system. The Read more
No blackboards, 200 students in a mega-classroom, agile learning areas, open-plan rooms where much larger groups, and sometimes even the whole school, learn under one roof are increasingly part of the Catholic school system in the Sydney diocese of Parramatta. With a stated goal of closing the last traditional classroom within 5 years, executive director of Read more
A new Don Bosco Technical College campus has been opened at Salelologa, in Savai’i, Samoa. The new compound consists of eight classrooms, a computer lab and a workshop. Unlike the Don Bosco Technical Center in Apia, the school teaches trades and high school subjects in Year 9 and Year 10. The school also educates both males Read more
Rugby is experiencing an American boom, and nowhere more so than at the 80-plus Jesuit high schools and colleges coast to coast. It’s probably not too surprising that a Catholic order conceived in the aftermath of battle, one which has always seasoned its intellectual and spiritual fervour with a healthy respect for physical strength, has Read more
Former All Black and St Patrick’s College Silverstream old boy Earl Kirton bemoaned the fact that there was ” no La-ra, no atmosphere” at the annual St Pat’s v Wellington College rugby encounter this year. The St Pats boys missed the game because of bad behaviour. Acting Rector Tony Giles said a “general malaise” had affected many Read more
On Monday 16 May the Vatican is issuing a new sexual abuse protocol document, giving guidelines for bishops to follow when dealing with cases of sexual abuse of children by priests. The letter comes from the Vatican’s top-ranking Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). CDF head, Cardinal William Levada said the circular would include Read more