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FaithYour Take
The Editors

We received a wide range of responses to our request to America readers to rate their experiences of parish-based religious education. Some, like Maria Barrera of Brooklyn, N.Y., described religious education as a “wholesome” time for her children that positively affected how her family practiced the faith, thanks to the hard work of her parish and her children’s Catholic school. Many catechists also noted that their work provided welcome challenges to their own faith.

FaithDispatches
Wyatt Massey
Students gather outside the schools before the first day of class, ready to learn new skills or improve their language skills, both of which can be invaluable for making a living in refugee camps.
FaithEditorials
The Editors
When choosing to believe is more and more a revolutionary act, religious education must do much more than hand on the basic tenets of the faith.
Faith
Randy Young
Can changes to religious education reduce the exodus of young adult Catholics?
Teacher Matt Gring talks with his students in the third grade at St. Ambrose Catholic School, a Notre Dame ACE Academy, in Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 23, 2014. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
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Courage can erupt in the most unexpected corners.
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Matt Malone, S.J.
It might interest you to know that the Society of Jesus really began in a college dorm room in September 1529.