Religious Education

Reviewing the manuscript on which I am now working, I came upon one of Joseph Ratzinger’s beautiful insights. I would like to share it with you, especially in as much as it touches on the issue of religious education, to which the Cornerstone Forum will be devoting more of its attention in the months and years ahead:

“Doubtless, this contact with already existing Christian experience was more obvious to man in the past than it is today; man lived then in a world that bore the stamp of faith. Today, the Church as a place of accumulated experience is for many an alien world. Nevertheless, this world continues to be a possibility, and it will be the task of religious education to open the door to this place of experience that is the Church and thus to encourage participation in the experience she has to offer.” [Principles of Catholic Theology, 351]

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger