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Catholic schools need to be much more careful when promoting secular ‘mental health’ resources

December 04, 2023

Earlier this year, you may recall seeing this rather disturbing headline, “Teacher told to apologise for addressing a classroom of female pupils, ‘girls’.” As the teacher involved explained at the time, “I was ordered to apologise to a Year 7 class at my private girls’ school — for addressing them as ‘girls’. I was told by

Bishops in Colombia welcome Government’s decision to reject gender ideology

August 17, 2016

President Juan Manuel Santost has said that schools will not be introducing gender ideology following mass protests

The Church has a greater understanding of childhood than all the civil servants in the departments of health and education put together

September 18, 2013

Refusing to acknowledge or punish a child's bad behaviour is not 'positive' parenting

Gove: Catholic schools can escape ‘meddling’ by becoming academies

February 16, 2011

Education Secretary says academy status offers Catholic schools the chance to 'extend hard-won freedoms'

Dozens of Catholic schools consider academy status

July 01, 2010

Eighty-four Catholic schools have expressed an interest in becoming academies this September