Volume 10, Number 1
September 2006
Table of Contents
Editors' Comments (p. 5)
Ronald J. Nuzzi & Thomas C. Hunt
Articles
Catholic Education and Social Justice
James L. Heft, SM
University of Dayton
(pp. 6-23)
Catholic institutions of higher learning compete mightily for students, faculty, and research dollars with other colleges and universities. Yet, the history and tradition of many Catholic institutions offer a unique faith perspective from which to understand and appreciate the role of the Catholic university as serving the common good. Catholic social teaching is an essential part of the Catholic intellectual tradition and is indispensable for fulfilling the Church’s mission through higher education.
Process of Compassion: Pastoral Care During School Closings
Patrick J. McDevitt, CM, Anthony J. Dosen, CM, & Frances Ryan, DC
DePaul University
(pp. 24-40)
Catholic education in the United States continues to face mounting economic challenges. Dioceses are being challenged with the painful reality of closing Catholic schools that have long served communities. These school closings leave behind wounded and disillusioned professionals. The Process of Compassion Workshop was developed to provide personal and professional help for healing so that teachers could move forward in their careers. This article provides a theoretical framework with action research to care for the dedicated people school closings leave behind.
Responses From the Field (pp. 41-45)
Daniel F. Curtin
National Catholic Educational Association
Gwen Byrd
Archdiocese of Mobile
Dominica Rocchio, SC
Archdiocese of Newark
Career Aspirations of Potential Applicants for Principals of Catholic Schools:
An Australian Perspective
Tony d’Arbon, fms
Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, New South Wales
(pp. 46-60)
Recent surveys of leadership succession planning in Catholic schools in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory of Australia have confirmed the growing shortage of persons applying for positions of principal in Catholic schools in those states and territory and examined reasons for the decline in numbers. This paper focuses on a particular aspect of that research in which the career aspirations of those being surveyed, in the pool of potential applicants for principal positions, are analyzed and reported. Implications for the future of Catholic schools in Australia as well as for the future leadership of schools in general are examined.
Focus Section
What I Overheard in the Sesquicentennial Conversation
Una M. Cadegan
University of Dayton
(pp. 61-75)
Catholic higher education is in many ways still responding to the challenge first articulated by John Tracy Ellis in his 1955 essay. In efforts to promote both a unique Catholic identity and a culture of excellence on par with secular institutions, Catholic universities can learn much from their historical context, founding religious communities, and contemporary experience. This essay suggests some practical applications for campus life and governance that might be culled from a university’s religious history.
John Tracy Ellis and the Figure of the Catholic Intellectual
Brian Conniff
University of Dayton
(pp. 76-88)
Fifty years after John Tracy Ellis challenged the quality and character of Catholic intellectual life, much work remains to be done. This essay explores Ellis’s original assertions and places them in an overarching historical context that involves Flannery O’Connor and Thomas Merton.
Review of Research
What is Religiosity
Barbara B. Holdcroft
The University of Toledo
Lourdes College
(pp. 89-103)
Book Reviews
Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape (pp. 104-105)
Edited by Richard Fossey & Paula Jean Miller
Reviewed by Michelle Ryan
Evolving Visions of the Priesthood: Changes From Vatican II to the Turn of the Century
(pp. 106-110)
By Dean R. Hoge & Jacqueline E. Wenger
Reviewed by Mary Louque
The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earth (pp. 110-115)
By Ralph C. Wood
Reviewed by Jeny Sejdinaj
Successful School Change: Creating Settings to Improve Teaching and Learning (pp. 115-117)
By Claude Goldenberg
Reviewed by Ruth Tinsley
What They Don’t Learn in Schools: Literacy in the Lives of Urban Youth (pp. 118-120)
Edited by Jabari Mahiri
Reviewed by Casey J. Yandek
The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why (pp. 121-124)
By Dalton Conley
Reviewed by Ben Ketchum
Family Matters: How Schools Can Cope With the Crisis in Childrearing (pp. 124-128)
By Robert Evans
Reviewed by Sandra Rojas