Networking - Catholic Education Today was set up in 1999 to provide Catholic educational organisations with a professional journal to engage and support their members’ interests and developmental needs. As a professional journal serving Catholic schools it seeks to inform, comment upon and celebrate all that is distinctive and important to its constituency, in addition to offering its partner organisations a vehicle for promoting their own activities.

The journal works closely with a variety of Catholic agencies to produce a publication whose content and coverage is of a consistency and quality to earn it an enviable reputation.

Latest issue

CAFOD Update .................................................................................................................... 2 - 5

Briefing Notes for Catholic Educators on Taxation and The Common Good........... 8

by Reverend David Haslam

The Network for Researchers in Catholic Education Annual Conference ............... 10

by Dr Gareth Byrne

How teacher involvement has helped shape our revisions to the new Religious

Education Curriculum Directory .................................................................................. 13

by Philip Robinson

Open hearts, Brave spirits, Visionary people ............................................................. 14

by Mrs Sarah Raffray

St. Edward’s RC School, Romsey, Hampshire ............................................................ 16

Discerning the mission through pilgrimage: one school’s experience

of service in Lourdes ..................................................................................................... 18

by Christopher Doel and AnnMarie Sylvester-Charles

News from CATSC ........................................................................................................ 20

Over 150 Catholic Educators attend first ATCRE National Conference .................. 26

by Matthew Dell, Chair of ATCRE

CISC News..................................................................................................................... 28

News from Scotland .................................................................................................... 30

News Roundup ............................................................................................................. 34

by Willie Slavin

Book & Media Review .................................................................................................. 38

by Willie Slavin

Are MATS and Academies a threat to the future of Catholic Education in England

and Wales? ................................................................................................................... 44

The first National Conference on Academisation and Catholic Education.

by Dr Sean Whittle, Raymond Friel and Margaret Buck