In his opening address at the 2016 Tasmanian Catholic Education Conference, Archbishop Julian Porteous looks at how Catholic schools can form the whole human person through an integral education with Jesus Christ at the centre.
In this podcast:
- 1:13 – Research into the religious identity of Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
- 6:52 – The concept of integral education, rather than education fragmented between disciplines and topics, with faith as the integrating factor.
- 10:54 – The Christian understanding of the human person, and how this is applied to Catholic education:
- 11:49 – Knowledge and intellectual formation,
- 13:22 – Character formation,
- 15:22 – Spiritual formation.
- 16:23 – How Catholic education fosters the life of the soul through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
- 20:22 – Viewing Catholic schools as having a mission of evangelisation.
- 22:08 – Catholic schools should look at issues relating to life, marriage and family.
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This address was recorded by the Archdiocese of Hobart.
