Michael Merrick, Author at Catholic Herald

Michael Merrick

There is more to Catholic education than environmental issues and social justice

February 07, 2024

There is certainly an irony in the fact that one issue on which both secular humanists and a certain cohort of Catholics can find common cause is the desire to close Catholic schools. From one direction, they are bastions of privilege and brainwashing, working to indoctrinate children into the murky rituals and dogma of the

Our Catholic heritage is full of treasures. Let’s bring them into the classroom

August 09, 2018

We need a revived Catholic curriculum to reclaim our cultural inheritance, from Bede to 'Lepanto'

A curriculum to reflect who we are

August 09, 2018

In 1905, one Miss Agnew sat at her desk in Carlisle and sketched out the “scheme of instruction” for the poor Catholic boys and girls of St Cuthbert’s school. Among her entries was the history “object lessons”: here a lesson on Caedmon and Bede, there Joan of Arc, another on Wolsey, next “the Revolution” (nothing

Should we welcome the expansion of Catholic schools? Not if it makes them less Catholic

September 14, 2016

The more Catholic schools we have, the more we will be tempted to dilute our Catholic identity

By rushing to embrace liberalism, Labour has lost the working class

June 28, 2016

Labour's crisis isn't about Jeremy Corbyn. It's about the party's abandonment of its core communities

How one Catholic school is struggling with the Cumbria flood

December 10, 2015

In our school's RE department flood waters reached approximately 7ft deep - most items have been irreparably damaged

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