The Emergence of a Shared Mission as a Ministry Paradigm 439 ARTICLES The Evolution of “Association ” as a Model for Lay/Religious Collaboration in Catholic Education, Part II: The Emergence of Shared

The second in a two-part series, this article reviews the recent struggle of the Christian Brothers to develop the concepts of Lasallian schools and shared mis-sion as a means to invite and incorporate the full and active collaboration of lay men and women in the ministry of Catholic education. In Part I of this two-part series (published in the March 2009 issue), the author traced the evolution of the Brothers of the Christian Schools ’ (Christian Brothers in the United States) understanding of how they re-lated to the lay people with whom they increasingly shared their apostolate of Catholic education. From a stance of wary distance in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Brothers increasingly accepted the reality of the presence of lay teachers in their schools by the middle of the 20th century. In the wake of the renewal occasioned by Vatican II, the Brothers began a process of self-exam-ination and refl ection on their apostolic identity and fi nality that dealt directly with the question of their corporate relationship with the laity that increasing-ly staffed and administered what were now called Lasallian schools. In the second part of this series, the Brothers ’ 41st General Chapter of 1986 is the starting point for a detailed analysis of how they developed th