Secularisation: its impact on Catholic schools – perspective from France

Abstract

Because it has experienced a process of secularisation for more than three centuries, France can be considered as a laboratory of the relevance of faith in a society for which it is no longer the cultural matrix. By showing how the central question of secularisation is in fact that of the relationship between faith and culture, this article proposes to consider Catholic schools as places where a new way for the Catholic Church to support humanity in its growth, at a personal and community level, is being elaborated.

Keywords:

• secularisation
• culture
• identity of Catholic schools
• evangelisation

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Notes

1 Among the commentaries on Divini illius Magistri, see Casella (2007) and André (1995).

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François Moog

François Moog, Ph.D, STD, is Rector / Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic University of Toulouse. His current research focuses on Christian anthropology and Catholic education. He is the President of the Association of Catholic Institutions for the Study of Education (ACISE), an international research group on Catholic education of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU).