This transcript of an address to the Catholic Library Association highlights an artifact collection of the Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Describes everyday objects with religious motifs from 19th-century America; discusses social and religious changes resulting from industrialization and…

Catholic high schools in the St. Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese have found a new ministry in treating gay and lesbian students justly. An 11-school Pastoral Care and Sexual Identity Study Group identified four goals: hold a sexual-identity workshop for professional staff; train faculty members to function as "safe staff"; teach that…

Investigates impact/effects of implementing single-sex classes, particularly as a strategy for engaging boys in the English classroom at a Catholic coeducational school (Perth, Western Australia). Uses semi-structured interviews with English teachers at the school to analyze teacher perceptions of single-sex classes in the coeducational context.…

Describes the design and validation of the Impediments to Leadership Succession Inventory, a 32-item survey instrument to determent why good candidates are not applying for principal positions in Australian Catholic schools. (Contains 40 references.) (PKP)

Offers guidelines to Catholic schools on obtaining grants from foundations. Discusses three steps: self-assessment to determine how outside funding can best be utilized, the investigation of foundations with religious interests, and the establishment of personal contacts. (DMM)

Reviews guidelines and objectives established by the United States Catholic bishops report on teaching human sexuality, identifying the goal of such education as the "realization of total sexual identity" and affective maturation. Describes workshops designed by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to train sexuality educators in accordance with the…

Counters Jonathan Kozol's concerns about educational vouchers, insisting that $2,500 could buy a quality private school education in Montgomery, Alabama. Critiques other voucher articles in the November 1992 "Educational Leadership" issue by challenging Alex Molnar's common school system concept and Arnold Fege's substitution of societal…

Five factors motivated parents' choice of new integrated schools in Northern Ireland (Catholics and Protestants together): (1) ideology; (2) educational quality; (3) dissatisfaction with present school; (4) convenience; and (5) mixed marriages. Goals and aspirations among parents were sometimes incompatible, which could affect school development.…

Describes a study of 18-year-old Roman Catholic and Protestant students in Northern Ireland, undertaken to determine differences between the 2 religious groups regarding foreign language learning. Although both groups showed interest and relatively positive attitudes toward learning foreign languages, Catholic children appeared to be more…

Reflects on what it has meant to be a Catholic feminist, full professor, founding director of the women's studies program, and chair of the English department. Considers future directions for Catholics and feminists in higher education. (NB)

Explores the contradictions within which author lives and works as member of theology department, and emphasizes how important it is for feminists on a Catholic campus to energize a sustained and serious study of questions central to the life of such a university. (NB)

Considers the challenges that face women who must work together with men in a Catholic institution, especially in the face of fewer religious vocations and increased participation of the laity. (NB)

Reveals ethical dilemmas that may face feminist counselors at Catholic institutions. Considers whether counseling relationship should be subject to religious value system of the university, how counselor's feminist perspective influences the counseling relationship, and how the counseling psychologist's contract with the employer affects the…

Administered Suicide Opinion Questionnaire to 100 Italian and 100 U.S. physicians, comparable in age, gender, and medical field. Found significant difference on seven of eight scales, with Italian physicians showing greater agreement on mental illness, right to die, religion, impulsivity, normality, aggression, and moral evil scales. Found gender…

Comments on several biographies of and articles about Pope John Paul II. Argues that he has been the most ecclesiastically consequential pontiff in centuries, revitalizing the church by crafting an evangelical Catholic response to the 21st century crisis of modernity. Suggests that the Pope should be the "man of the century." (DSK)