Faith in Dialogue. Recontextualizing Catholic School Identity and Mission in a Diverse and Changing United States. Theoretical, Empirical and Praxeological Dimensions for a Catholic Dialogue School.

The demographics of Catholic education in the United States are changing dramatically. A new context of religiously diverse student populations challenges Catholic schools to rethink their traditional places as centres of confessional catechesis for Catholic students. This project aims to investigate the extent to which the model of a Catholic dialogue school can serve the needs of Catholic secondary schools in the United States. The methodology of this project includes an analysis of the socio-religious context for U.S. Catholic schools, a critique of various ideological positions regarding institutional identity, religious beliefs, and pedagogical dialogue, an empirical investigation of actual attitudes in U.S. Catholic schools towards identity, belief, and dialogue, theological reflection on the foundations for a dialogue model, and a final correlation of findings to describe the model itself.status: publishe