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McKinney, Stephen J. – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
The absence of young people in Catholic churches in many parts of the world, especially in the more economically advanced countries, is a cause for great anxiety within Catholic communities. This is expressed in relevant research literature and the three recent synodal syntheses of England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland. This article explores the…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholics, Religious Factors, Youth
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McKinney, Stephen J. – Journal of Religious Education, 2022
Pope Francis met representatives of the Indigenous peoples of Canada in Rome in April 2022 and in Canada in July 2022. At these meetings he offered sincere apologies for the ways in which the Catholic Church had colluded with the strategy of cultural assimilation of the Indigenous people in Canada. This was especially abhorrent in the residential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Indigenous Populations, Residential Schools