Understanding Faith is an educational ministry of St Agnes’ Parish, Port Macquarie, under the leadership of Parish Priest, Father Paul Gooley.
We are very proud of our unique multimedia resource, which links student content, Church teachings and Scripture, to interactive activities, video excerpts, radio broadcasts, music, newspaper articles, slideshows, and the internet – as well as pedagogically sound and contemporary teaching and learning activities.
New Inclusions for 2021:
Primary:
- Full updates to Units 23 – 32
- Updates and enhancements to many interactive activities and images
Secondary:
The team at Understanding Faith have completed the remaining Studies in Catholic Thought units with everything you need to start teaching. These units, that have been integrated into the Understanding Faith resource, cover all objectives, outcomes and content areas of the syllabus and include up-to-date and engaging interactive activities, learning activities, slide shows and multimedia activities. This truly is a one-stop-resource. You will have all the resources you need to teach the course without having to spend precious hours searching for material.
- Unit 50 – Who is a Human Person
- Unit 51 – Trinitarian God and Humanity
- Unit 52 – The Reimagining of Creation
- Unit 53 – Faith, Reason and Science
- Unit 54 – To Be Fully Human
- Unit 55 – Virtue, Vice and Salvation
- Unit 56 – The Good Works
- Unit 57 – The Common Good
- *NEW* Unit 58 – Set Text Study
- *NEW* Unit 59 – The Church and The Arts
- *NEW* Unit 60 – The Church and First Peoples
- *NEW* Unit 61 – The Church and the Contemporary World
Updates:
- Full update to Units 8 – 20
- Updates and enhancements to many interactive activities and images
- New and relevant videos, podcasts and newspapers throughout the secondary resource including several multimedia activities on COVID-19 to help your students to understand the effects it is having around the world. Some examples of these include:
- Podcasts:
- The Religion and Ethics Report – The ethical complexities of rationing health care
- Soul Search – Pandemics reshaping religion
- The Economists – Who will suffer the most from the COVID shutdown?
- God Forbid – Law and liberty in the time of coronavirus
- Religion and Ethics Report – Coronavirus and the political dilemma
- Late Night Live – COVID-19 and the ethics of human challenge trials
- Big Ideas – COVID-19 and human rights
- God Forbid – Law and liberty in the time of coronavirus
- Religion and Ethics Report – Has the Vatican been affected by coronavirus?
- God Forbid – The COVID-19 conundrum
- The Religion and Ethics Report – The ethical complexities of rationing health care
- Newspaper:
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- Podcasts: