U.S. Catholic Schools and the Religious Who Served in Them: The Struggle to Continue the Tradition in the Post-Vatican II Era

Richard M Jacobs

doi:10.15365/joce.0202052013

Abstract

This last in a series of three articles surveying the contributions of the religious to U.S. Catholic schooling focuses upon these contributions during the decades following the close of the Second Vatican Council. In an era when control of Catholic schooling was in transition from the hands of the religious to their lay collaborators, these women and men extended the legacy of their forebears by continuing to give form to the mission and purpose of U.S. Catholic schooling””namely, what it means to be an American Catholic””for the youth of the post-Vatican II era. These young women and men will provide leadership for the American Catholic Church during the first decades of the new millennium. This last in a series of three articles surveying the contributions of the religious to U.S. Catholic schooling focuses upon these contributions during the decades following the close of the Second Vatican Council. In an era when control of Catholic schooling was in transition from the hands of the religious to their lay collaborators, these women and men extended the legacy of their forebears by continuing to give form to the mission and purpose of U.S. Catholic schooling””namely, what it means to be an American Catholic””for the youth of the post-Vatican II era. These young women and men will provide leadership for the American Catholic Church during the first decades of the new millennium.

Highlights

U.S CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND THE RELIGIOUS WHO SERVED IN THEM: THE STRUGGLE TO CONTINUE THE TRADITION IN THE POST-VATICAN II ERA
This last in a series of three articles surveying the contributions of the religious to U.S Catholic schooling focuses upon these contributions during the decades following the close of the Second Vatican Council
In an era when control of Catholic schooling was in transition from the hands of the religious to their lay collaborators, these women and men extended the legacy of their forebears by continuing to give form to the mission and purpose of U.S Catholic schooling—namely, what it means to be an American Catholic—for the youth of the post-Vatican II era

Summary

Recommended Citation

Quigley (1938) first sounded the alarm at least 12 years before the decline began and the alarm has sounded time and again as late as the 1980s, when for example, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) produced its Visions and Values in the Catholic School project (1984) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC) published a three-volume series Formation and Development for Catholic School Leaders (1993, 1994). Both series were designed to provide vocational training for those serving in the nation's Catholic schools

BEQUEATHING THE HERITAGE

THE POOR AND MARGINALIZED

RENEWING CATHOLIC SCHOOL IDENTITY

Findings

ENTRUSTING SCHOOLS TO THE LAITY AND EXPANDING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION