Catholic Community of Practice
The REA’s Catholic Community of Practice exists to provide Catholic members of the Association a forum for information sharing and collegial support. It meets annually at the REA Annual Meeting and allows online networking through this web page.
The CCOP will meet again on Monday, July 10, 2023 starting at 9:15 pm. Please check the annual meeting schedule for the appropriate room link (you must be a member to log in there).
We have invited Rito Baring from the Phillipines to speak on Environmental Issues and
RE. He will share with the group some insights from a paper he did with another researcher about Filipino youth ecotheology and its relevance to Religious Education. He will also report on the recent RE Conference in the Philippines, “Greening the Faith: Challenges to Religious Education,” which took place June 23-24, 2023.
We invite your ideas and suggestions for additional topics and agenda items for our
gathering on July 10th, and future gatherings.
As time permits, we wanted to invite further feedback on the Synod process and
particularly any feedback to the documents below:
The Synod webpage for official resources
And “Enlarge the Space of Your Tent” (Is. 54:2) the beautiful Working Document for the
Continental Stage with graphics.
Looking forward to seeing everyone,
Chuck Chesnavage, and Maureen O’Brien, CCOP Co-Chairs
cchesnavage [at] gmail [dot] com obrien [at] duq [dot] edu
Additionally, you can access past minutes of our CCOP gatherings below:
Minutes of the 3 November 2021 Catholic Community of Practice online session
Minutes of the 5 July 2021 Catholic Community of Practice Online Session (Chesnavage slide deck is available; Run The World; google doc for resources)
Minutes of the 22 June 2020 Catholic Community of Practice Zoom meeting
Minutes of the 2019 Catholic Session during the REA Toronto, ON Meeting
Minutes of the 2018 Catholic Session during the REA Washington, DC, Meeting
Minutes of the 2017 Catholic Session during the REA St. Louis Meeting
Posts
- Catholic COP minutes
- Catholic COP session at 2021 meeting
- Religious Education in a Time of Crisis: Invitation to a Catholic Community of Practice Conversation
- Announcing Thomas Groome’s Latest Book, Faith for the Heart: A “Catholic” Spirituality
- Ideas Requested for 2019 Catholic COP Meeting at REA
- News from the Philippines
- Research Study on Navigating Conversations about Race: Invitation to Participants at REA 2018 Who Teach in Catholic Higher Education
- “To Serve the People of God”: A Contemporary Theology of the Priesthood
- Minutes of the 2018 Catholic Session during the REA Washington Meeting
- Call for Papers: New International Journal of Evangelization and Catechesis