This is a recording of our Book Launch on January 15, 2025.
Thank you to all our collaborators and participants.
When faith and life meet, the result is adult faith education that transforms.
In this enlightening collection, respected practitioners and leaders in the field of adult faith education share their thoughts, ideas and findings from the Action Research Project led by the Centre for Religious Education and Catechesis at Saint Paul University.
Contributors offer promising practices and ways to help shape learning and growing spaces for meaning-making and agency as mature Christians.
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Contributors
Dr. Carol Kuzmochka is director and lead researcher of the Centre for Religious Education and Catechesis and is a professor in the School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity (Faculty of Human Sciences), Saint Paul University, Ottawa.
Archbishop Paul-André Durocher has been a bishop since 1997 and Archbishop of Gatineau, Québec, since 2011. He is a former president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and is a member of the Dicastery for Culture and Education.
Dr. Lorraine Ste-Marie is co-researcher in the Centre for Religious Education and Catechesis and adjunct professor in the School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity (Faculty of Human Sciences), Saint Paul University, where she served in many roles prior to her retirement.
Dr. Miriam Martin, pbvm serves on the Congregational Leadership Team of her Presentation Sisters Union religious community and is adjunct professor in the School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity and (Faculty of Human Sciences), Saint Paul University, where she served in many roles prior to her retirement, including as co-founding director of the Centre for Religious Education and Catechesis.
Dr. Anne Walsh is coordinator of Partnership in Mission for the Redemptorists of North America, chair of the General Commission for Partnership in Mission for the Redemptorists worldwide, and a leader in adult faith education and catechist formation in the Archdiocese of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ms. Marilena Berardinelli is a doctoral candidate at Saint Michael’s College, University of Toronto, an Ontario Certified Teacher, and an instructor for Additional Qualification courses in Religious Education in Catholic schools.
Ms. Christine Way Skinner is a doctoral candidate at the University of Saint Michael’s College, University of Toronto, an author of several Novalis publications and a lay pastoral minister.
Ms. Charlene Peters is former chair of the Atlantic Catechetical Association and director of Faith Formation for the Diocese of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Ms. Koreen Hrizai is chair of the Western Conference of Catholic Religious Educators (WCCRE) and co-ordinator of the Office of Catechetics and Adult Faith Growth, English Sector, Archdiocese of Saint Boniface, Manitoba.
Dr. Christine Taylor is an associate of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a former chair of the Western Conference of Catholic Religious Educators, and director of the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis for the Diocese of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Dr. Murray Watson is a former professor at Saint Peter’s Seminary in London, Ontario, and is adult faith formation animator for the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board in Barrie, Ontario.
Fr. Daryold Corbiere Winkler is a priest of the Archdiocese of Ottawa, an Anishinaabe from Manitoulin Island, and a member of the Indigenous Pastoral Formation Program at Saint Paul University.