When asked about God, a higher-being or a cosmic force, the differences between US and Australian young people begin to show. Just 3 per cent of American young people reject any idea of there being a God, higher-being or cosmic force, compared with 16 per cent of Australian young people. The large majority of US young people (65%) believe there in a personal God compared with just 38 per cent of Australian young people. When asked the questions whether they believed in God or not, or whether they were unsure, 34 per cent of Australian young people said they were unsure compared with 12 per cent of American young people.
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Of all Australian adults 17.2% attended a Catholic primary school, and of those who went to secondary school, 16.7% attended a Catholic secondary school, according to the National Social Science Survey of 1993. About half of all Australian Catholics send their children to Catholic schools, but so also do many non-Catholics. They prize the educational standards, the discipline, and other aspects of Catholic schools, in comparison with many State schools. The National Social Science Survey enables us to examine how successful Catholic schools have been in both the areas of educational achievement and in encouraging church attendance and the affirmation of Christian faith. This article draws on some analysis of the National Social Science Survey conducted by Mariah Evans and Jonathan Kelley, published in their series of papers Worldwide Attitudes.MORE...
Summer holidays at an end, well over three million students returned to school in Australia this month. Close to one in three students returned to a non-government school, non-government schools representing 28% of all Australian schools.
Summer holidays at an end, well over three million students returned to school in Australia this month. Close to one in three students returned to a non-government school, non-government schools representing 28% of all Australian schools. MORE...
This is the first of a series of articles on chaplaincy. While, in some places, congregational life is declining, ministry through chaplaincy is growing. With the growth comes new opportunities and new challenges. The CRA will continue to examine the opportunities and challenges for chaplaincy in forthcoming issues of Pointers in the year 2000.
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