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Fr. Peter George Flynn welcomes Alan Hynes-Cendrzak of the Catholic Education Partnership [CEP], the umbrella body established by the Irish bishops and religious orders in 2020. Alan offers a perspective that surprises many: the Catholic Church is the largest non-state provider of education on earth, currently educating 67 million children worldwide — a heritage built in Ireland from the hedge schools onward by figures like Nano Nagle, Catherine McAuley and Blessed Edmund Rice.

The conversation moves through the structural challenges ahead, including the pooled diocesan model of St Senan’s in Limerick, and the newly approved vision for Catholic education endorsed by the Irish bishops in December. Alan’s central argument is that structures are only a means to an end: the more urgent task is embedding a living vision into schools, families and parishes — and rebuilding the triangle of family, school and parish as mutual and intentional partners in faith formation, not in a secularised background culture, but as a conscious counter-witness within it.

L'articolo Catechesis – The Church’s Indispensable Role in Secular Education – Alan Hynes-Cendrzak and Fr Peter George Flynn OFM proviene da Radio Maria.