Trust parents and not the space cadets

I HAVE read a report that the Irish Catholic bishops are taking the first steps towards drawing up a new course of study of religious education in primary schools.

This major project comes at a time of mounting concern at young people’s ignorance of their faith.

In the past number of years parents who were concerned at the textbooks and other methods of so-called teaching of religious education were dismissed as cranks, those in authority forgetting that parents are the primary educators of their children, and that the faith taught at home was not compatible with the textbooks.