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On Teaching Christian Doctrine Theory of Education, 63-65 (Acerbo Nimis), 169-70 Parents’ Role, 181-82, 230-31, Orate Fratres, 135-36, 251, 283 238-39 Index Abelard, Peter, 4-5 McCluskey, Neil Gerard, on, academic freedom, 46-47, 238, 229-30 293-94 Michel, Virgil, on, 138-39 Acerbo Nimis (On Teaching Shields, Thomas Edward, on, Christian Doctrine), 169-70 82, 86-91, 93 Adaptive Way, 171, 174-75, American catechetical 184 movement, 140-41 Adaptive Way Course of Religious American Catholic Instruction for Catholic Philosophical Association Children Attending Public (ACPA), 53 Schools, The (Walsh), American College of the 168-69 Immaculate Conception Adler, Mortimer, 201 (Louvain, Belgium), 22, adult education 197 McCluskey, Neil Gerard, on, Americanism, 30-31 222, 232 American liturgical movement, Ryan, Mary Perkins, on, 250, 248-53, 281-84 259, 262-63, 265-67, 269 Anselm, 5 Aeterni Patris, 11 anti-Catholicism, 29, 223-24, African Americans, 23-24, 162, 227 170 apperception, 69, 175-76, 184. Ahr, George, 278 See also correlation aims of education principle culture, 89-90, 204 Aquinas, Thomas growth of the individual, 141 contributions of, 4-5, 6-7, 9 Johnson, George, on, 117-22 De Magistro, 64 as living faith, 173 Maritain, Jacques, on, 191, Maritain, Jacques, on, 203-05 194 322 INDEX Acuinas, Thomas (continued) Benedict XVI, Pope, 283 Pace, Edward, on, 64 Bergson, Henri, 191, 194 Shields, Thomas Edward, on, Bernard of Clairvaux, 6 88 Better Men for Better Times, Summa Theologica, 191, 196 107-08, 123, 126-29 on teachers, 211 BHRAGS, Inc., 222 Are Parochial Schools the Answer? Blanshard, Paul, 223 (Ryan), 248, 257-58 Bloy, Léon, 191 Aristotelian Thomism, 196 Boys, Mary, 18 Aristotle, 125, 194, 196, 198 Brothers of the Christian assimilation of Catholics, 166, Schools, 9-10 256-57 Brownson, Orestes, 14, 24, 132 At Your Ease in the Catholic Bryce, Mary Charles, 18, 50, Church (Ryan), 247, 250 279 Augustine of Hippo, 3-4, 7, 64, Buchanan, Scott, 201 194 Buckley, Francis, 18 Baierl, J.J., 183 Caldwell, Mary Gwendolen, 27 Baltimore Catechism Cardinal Principles of assimilation exercises in, 179 Education, 86 feasts and seasons in, 150 Caronti, Emmanuele, 134-35 Michel, Virgil, on, 141-42 catechesis. See also religious Shields, Thomas Edward, on, education 96-97 dogma/authority in, 171-72 Sloyan, Gerard Stephen, on, explanation/memorization 290-91 method, 171-72 Spalding, John Lancaster, history of, 291-92 and, 25-26 kerygmatic movement and, Bandas, Rudolph G., 168, 183 254-56 Barr, Stringfellow, 201 Michel, Virgil, on, 147-53 Basil, 3 Sloyan, Gerard Stephen, on, Beauduin, Lambert, 133-35, 284, 286-88 249, 250, 283 sources for, 176-79 Beginning at Home (Ryan), 253 Catechetical Forum, 248, 262 behaviorism, 61 Catholic Associated Press, 79- Benedictine Liturgical 80 Conference. See National Catholic Church Liturgical Conference educational mission, 62-63 Benedictine tradition, 7-8, 133-34 in 1940s and 1950s, 271-73 INDEX 323 Catholic Correspondence history in U.S., 103-04 School, 78-79 public support for, 258-59 Catholic Education: The Spalding, John Lancaster, on, Background, Present 28-29 Position, and Future Trends Catholic Sisters College at of Catholic Education Catholic University, 53-54 (McCluskey), 232-34 Catholic Social Action, 166 Catholic Educational Review, 53, Catholic social thought, 29-30 79 Catholic University, The Catholic Education Association, (McCluskey), 234 53 “Catholic University and the Catholic Education Faces its Aggiornamento, The,” Future (McCluskey), 221- 236-37 22, 225 Catholic University Bulletin, 53 Catholic Education in America “Catholic University in the (McCluskey), 221 Modern World, The,” 236-37 Catholic Encyclopedia, 54, 61-63 Catholic University of America, Catholic identity 15, 76-77 McCluskey, Neil Gerard, on, Department of Education, 78 227-29, 233-34 Johnson, George, and, 105 schools and, 103, 259 Leo XIII, Pope, and, 70-71 Spalding, John Lancaster, on, Pace, Edward, and, 52-55, 23 76-78 Catholic intellectual life, 15, Sloyan, Gerard Stephen, and, 256-57 276-79 Catholic religious education Spalding, John Lancaster, Protestant influences, 142-43 and, 26-28 Catholic Rural Life Bureau, and Thomism, 197 166 Catholic Viewpoint on Education, Catholics A (McCluskey), 220-21, 225 assimilation of, 256-57 Charmot, François, 220 and non-Catholics, 230-31 Chenu, M.D., 137 in non-Catholic schools, 14, Chicago group, 201 166, 170-71, 182-83 Child Psychology and Religion in pluralistic society, 253-54 (Walsh), 167, 181 Catholic schools. See also Chippewa Missions, 139-40 private schools Christian Concepts in Social distinctiveness of, 106, 115- Studies in Catholic 16 Education (Sloyan), 277 324 INDEX Christian education. See Correspondence Course for Lay catechesis; religious Catechists, The (Walsh), education 168 Christian Religion Series, The, culture, 89-90, 204, 256-57 152-53 Curtis, Walter, 169 Christ-Life Series, 251 Cyril of Jerusalem, 3 Christ-Life Series in Religion, The, 150-52. See also De Concilio, Janarius, 25-26 elementary school Deferrari, Roy, 18 Murray, Jane Marie, 150 Degrees of Knowledge, The Church (Maritain), 217 and culture, 256-57 de Lubac, Henri, 137 educational mission of, 11, De Magistro (Thomas Aquinas), 62-63, 65-66, 92-93 64 as Mystical Body of Christ, democracy, 124-25 133, 151, 155, 249, 251-53 De Néve, Father, 23 Ciceronian approach, 5-6 Deutsch, Alcuin, 133 City University of New York, Dewey, John Center for Gerontological Maritain, Jacques, and, 199- Studies, 222 200 Clement, 3 moral education and, 240-41 clergy, education of, 27, 46-48, Shields, Thomas Edward, 71-73, 76, 234 and, 80-81, 110-11, 119- Clérissac, Humbert, 191 20 Coe, George, 87 Diekmann, Godfrey, 168, 250, Colet, John, 8 284 Collins, Joseph B., 168, 183 Distinguish to Unite: The Commission on American Degrees of Knowledge Citizenship, 107, 125, (Maritain), 192 126-27 Divini Illius Magistri, 11 Complete Works of Jacques Divino Afflante Spiritu, 285 Maritain, The (Oèuvres dogma/authority, role of, 86-87 complètes), 194 Dominican Sisters, 251 Confraternity of Christian Ducey, Michael, 247 Doctrine (CCD), 166-69, 262 economic efficiency, 89 Congar, Yves, 137 education correlation principle, 80, 97, 100- for citizenship, 90-91, 124- 01. See also apperception 25 INDEX 325 as mission of Church, 11, Feeney, Leonard, 247 62-63, 65-66, 92-93 Freire, Paulo, 137 parents’ right to choose, 230- Fuerst, Anthony N., 183-84 31 Gatterer, Michael, 172-74 “Education and the Future of Gaudium et Spes, 13-14, 214 Religion” (Spalding), 30 Gibbons, James, 26-27, 163 education as liturgy. See liturgy Gilson, Étienne, 192, 196-97 as education Glennon, John J., 28, 31-32 Education at the Crossroads Gonzaga University, 221, 235 (Maritain), 12, 190, 193 Gredt, Joseph, 133 Education of Man, The Griffin, William A., 277-78 (Maritain), 201 Groome, Thomas, 18 Education of Our Girls, The Guardini, Romano, 283 (Shields), 92 Gueranger, Prosper, 282 elementary schools, 9-10, 108- 09, 111-12. See also The Haas, Frederick J., 123 Christ-Life Series in Religion Hackett, Estelle, 149-50, 251 Ellard, Gerald, 168, 250 Harris, Maria, 18 Ellis, John Tracy, 237 Harris, William Torrey, 220 Erasmus, Desiderius, 8 Hecker, Isaac, 24 Eucharist, 155, 294-95 Heeg, Aloysius J., 168, 183 European catechetical Herbart, Johann, 184 movement, 172 Herwegen, Idlefons, 282 European liturgical movement, Hesburgh, Theodore, 18, 235- 134-35, 249, 281-84 37 European Social Catholicism, higher education 23 Christian Religion Series, The, Existential Thomism, 196-97 152-53 experimental psychology, 52- institutions of, 18-19 53, 55-59 McCluskey, Neil Gerard, on, explanation/memorization 221-22, 234-38 method, 171-72 Pace, Edward, on, 59-60, 70- 71 Fahs, Sophia, 87 Sloyan, Gerard Stephen, on, family in religious education, 293-94 91-92, 181-82. See also Spalding, John Lancaster, on, parents’ role 31, 39, 45-46 Favre, Geneviève, 190 high schools, 147-49, 152-53 Favre, Jules, 190 Hildebrand, Dietrich von, 252 326 INDEX Hillenbrand, Reynold, 250 Jesus in Focus: A Life in its Hofinger, Johannes, 75, 248, Setting (Sloyan), 280 254-55, 288 John of the Cross, 191 home visitations, 181-82 John Paul II, Pope, 198-99 How Do I Know I’m Doing Johnson, George Right? Toward the aims of education, 117-22 Formation of a Christian Better Men for Better Times, Conscience (Sloyan), 280 126-29 humanism, Renaissance, 8-9 and Catholic schools, 105-06 Humanisme Intégral (True Catholic University of Humanism) (Maritain), America, 105 192 on education as development, Human Rights and Natural Law 119-20 (Maritain), 193 on education of teachers, Hurley, Michael, 24-25 113-15 Hutchins, Robert, 201 on elementary school curriculum, 111-12 IFCU (International Federation on history of education, 108-09 of Catholic Universities), legacy, 15-16, 129-30 221, 236-37 life, 104-08 immigrants, ministry to, 48, modern theories, 109-11 164-65 moral character education, Index Omnium (Shields), 77 118-19 intellectual freedom, 30 philosophy of education, International Federation of 108-13 Catholic Universities progressivism of, 106, 112- (IFCU), 221, 236-37 13, 115-16 interreligious activities, 221, role of experience in 223-24 education, 120 Irish Colonization Association, in 1930s and 1940s, 122-25 24 service on federal commissions, 106-07 Jacobs, Elaine Lituchy, 222-23 Shields, Thomas Edward, James, William, 95 104-05 Jean Baptiste de la Salle, 9-10 on sources of truth, 111-12 Jehovah’s Witnesses, 230 Jungmann, Josef, 75, 254, 282 Jensen, Joseph, 279 Jesuits, 9 Kelley, Marie Virginia, 274 Jesus, 69, 72, 97-98, 144 kerygmatic approach, 288-90 INDEX 327 kerygmatic movement, 254-56, Liturgy of the Church, The 264-65 (Michel), 134 Kilpatrick, William, 95 lives of
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