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Session 15: Catholic Social Teaching, Ellen Mommaerts, Julie Massey
Session 15: Catholic Social Teaching, Ellen Mommaerts, Julie Massey
Gateway's Pilot Year
We expect to offer a basic grounding in CST, likely through a video (we’re reviewing a few options of existing videos.) After the video, students will pair share - what words caught their attention in the video. All students provided a handout that gives a brief description of each of the seven themes. Students are broken into 7 groups, each assigned one theme. The small groups are given questions to discuss related to their theme, that help them reflect on how they can be advocates and agents of change related to this theme. Each group creates a meme to promote …
Session 13: Understanding The Catholic Tradition, Julie Massey
Session 13: Understanding The Catholic Tradition, Julie Massey
Gateway's Pilot Year
After a brief check-in process, students will be asked to pair share their childhood experiences of faith or church and what the term religion means to them. Then the group will brainstorm reactions to the term “Catholic.” We’ll share a very short video that shows some of the expansiveness of the tradition (through celebrities, types/locations of ministry, subgroups that are engaged in the tradition,) and then ask the students to engage the SNC articulation of the Catholic tradition. (It was hoped that SNC articulation would come through the “elevator version” of the Catholic identity statement, but for this year we …