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  2. Catholic youth work - Wikipedia

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    Activities in the field range from small scale youth groups attached to parishes or Catholic schools, to large international gatherings, such as World Youth Day. It is a field which has evolved much over recent decades, especially in comparison to more formal methods of education or catechesis within the church.

  3. History of Catholic education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By 1912 "The greatest religious fact in the United States today", stated Archbishop John Lancaster Spalding, "is the Catholic School system, maintained without any aid by the people who love it". It includes over 20,000 teachers, and over 1,000,000 pupils, represents $100,000,000 worth of property; and costs over $15,000,000 annually.

  4. Catholic school - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic schools are owned by a proprietor, typically by the diocese bishop. Currently, Catholic schools in New Zealand are termed 'state-integrated schools' for funding purposes, meaning that teachers' salaries, learning materials, and operations of the school (e.g., power and gas) are publicly funded but the school property is not. New ...

  5. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine - Wikipedia

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    The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine is now commonly referred to by its abbreviation, CCD, or simply as "Catechism", and provides religious education to Catholic children attending secular schools. Inconsistently, CCD has also been offered under a spectrum of banners and acronyms, but all serve the same parochial function of providing a ...

  6. Life Teen - Wikipedia

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    Life Teen was established in 1985 at St. Timothy's Parish in Mesa, Arizona.The founder and then-priest Dale Fushek said he believed the Church needed a new approach to evangelize Christ to the Catholic youth in the area.

  7. Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    Archbishop at the time, John Hughes, insisted that Catholic education was the primary way to preserve proper Christian teaching. [42] He cited education at a young age promoted the reason and experience necessary for a strong religious background. He called American Catholics "to multiply our schools, and to perfect them". [43]

  8. Catholic schools in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since 2000, 1,942 Catholic schools around the country have shut their doors, and enrollment has dropped by 621,583 students, to just over 2 million in 2012, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. Many Catholic schools are being squeezed out of the education market by financial issues and publicly funded charter schools. [13]

  9. Catholic higher education - Wikipedia

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    Although some schools are deemed "Catholic" because of their identity and a great number of students enrolled are Catholics, it is also stipulated in canon law that "no school, even if it is in fact Catholic, may bear the title 'Catholic school' except by the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority" (Can. 803 §3). [citation needed]