Catholic Identity and Religious Education

Catholic schools in the Diocese of Sale, through their defining culture, their curriculum and their classroom-based Religious Education programs, play important formative roles in support of families in the Religious Education and general education of students. They are places where the sacramental and dialogical approaches to the teaching of Religious Education promote a recontextualizing school environment, helping students realise the beauty, the power and love of faith in Jesus Christ. In undertaking this work, schools utilise a wide range of learning and teaching approaches, and are aware of and informed by the personal experiences of students.

In all the endeavours of schools across the diocese, and most especially through our Religious Education Curriculum, our key objective is to walk alongside students, listening to their challenges and aspirations, sharing their joy and pain, and helping to create a stillness and an openness in their hearts to the presence and action of God in their lives.

From the very first moment a person enters a school in the Diocese of Sale, we want them to encounter the person, story and message of Jesus Christ. It is through this encounter that a fullness of life is gifted to our school communities and to the individuals that form these communities. We want people in our schools to encounter an authentic Christian message through their lived experience of the school. In this encounter, and through the formal Religious Education programs offered in our schools, school community members are called to witness and contribute to God’s plan of salvation.