Beyond the Story: Unravelling the Church's ...

Louis DeThomasis examines the role that Catholic education and the Catholic school can play in helping the institutional church unravel this quandary. The Catholic school must remain vibrant and relevant in today's world, and to do this, the institutional church must permit the Catholic education system to truly educate and not just catechise.

Louis DeThomasis' forty years of experience in Catholic education, and his international perspective, form the lens through which he helps his readers see the underpinnings of the Catholic Church's quandary in the global era. With the understanding of an educator, he points to the crucial tasks ahead if Catholicism is to survive as a global force in both the short and the long term, asking

• and often answering - the hard questions. This book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the future Church.