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| I teach Religion to the upper grades. One thing I'm glad for is the three-year bloc in which to do this, so that students will get a consistent education in it for their last three years. Unlike many other Catholic grammar schools' Religion programs, mine does not offer the typical "balloons-and-banners" kind of stuff. Students in my Religion classes do not sit around talking about their feelings on drugs or how to save the environment; that's not Religion. I do not insult their intelligence like that. Instead, they learn that belief in God isn't for the stupid; it's reality itself, on which all other things are based. My students learn about the Catholic Faith, but are never pressured to believe. I let the facts speak for themselves, and let the Holy Spirit do the rest. One thing, though; students get the real Catholic Faith in my classes; they learn from the Bible, the Catechism, and any other good, solid, orthodox source I can incorporate. Sorry, no liberal, off-the-wall, heterodox stuff in my classes -- that's not Catholicism. I'll have to answer to God someday for how I taught them. If I don't teach the Truth as best I know how, I'll be in trouble. So why give them anything less than the fullness of it? That's truly the only way to go if I want to call myself a Catechist. |
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