Editor writes... Recently, I stumbled across a magazine entitled The Scottish Catholic, featuring a pupil on the front cover, querying "What's our future?" beside his photo a list: Catholic Climate Change, Cost of Living, Mental Health, Hope (image below). Turns out this is a special Catholic Education Week Edition of the magazine which had been handed over...
The sad news of the death of Daphne McLeod [above] has just arrived in my inbox, emailed by a mutual friend who has written to say that she first went into hospital about a month ago. Then, yesterday morning she had "taken a turn for the worse" and passed away yesterday evening, Sunday 3rd...
Comment: The young people in the above video (published in November, 2018) are just lovely. Each and every one of them is transparently pleasant and sincere. They are obviously proud to be Catholics, God bless their tartan socks :grin: Yet, there is no way to gauge the level of their knowledge and understanding of the Faith. ...
Editor writes... Reflecting on our forthcoming Education Seminar (23 May), and given that Barbara Coupar, the Director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service (SCES) has ignored my emailed invitation to her to participate in said seminar, I decided to take a look at some of the resources on the SCES website which are used in...
Comment: Present in the public gallery watching this recent discussion in the Scottish Parliament, we see Leo Cushley, the Archbishop of St Andrew's & Edinburgh, Barbara Coupar, the Director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service (SCES), and a group of students. Not one item on Elaine Smith's list singles out Catholic schools as being any different...
From the Scottish Catholic Observer, 11/10/19 ‘Our schools are inclusive, not divisive,’ say headteachers Catholic Primary headteachers reject secular arguments as they gather for annual CHAPS conference. Catholic schools are inclusive, not divisive, headteachers emphasised this week as the Archbishop of Glasgow urged them not to shy away from their Catholic ethos. The recent debate in the secular...
Comment: Note: video which originally featured at the top of this page, was removed from YouTube. We admire the Muslim parents in Birmingham who have led the fight against the LGBTQ propaganda drive in primary schools. The silence from the Catholic community, however, is embarrassingly deafening. In the next day or so, I will be emailing...
From the Scottish Catholic Observer (SCO) - 16/2/19 [Editorial comment in bold]... Pupils at an East Kilbride primary school marked Catholic Education Week in a mindful way recently, as they welcomed a meditating priest. Fr Laurence Freeman OSB, who is the director of the World Community for Christian Meditation, arrived at St Vincent’s Primary School...
Below, the text of the Pastoral Letter sent from the Archbishop of Glasgow to be read in all parishes tomorrow, Sunday, 3rd March, 2019. Underneath the Pastoral Letter, is the text of the ad clerum - that is his letter to priests - on the same subject. Compare the two - and weep! ARCHDIOCESE OF...
From the Scottish Catholic Observer... MP’s comments on Catholic education ‘very disappointing’ The director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service has described comments made last week by MP Mhairi Black (pictured, left) on Catholic schools are ‘very disappointing.’ Barbara Coupar, SCES director, spoke following a report by the Sunday Herald, which claimed the SNP MP had said...
