lopment of the place of parochial Catholic education within the context of this newly envisioned, world.
Relative to education, at least as important as the relatively weak and traditional Declaration on Christian Education 73 was the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. 74 Addressing itself "not only to the sons of the Church, . . . but to the whole of humanity," 75 the latter document evidenced a positive concern for the whole world. (Buetow, 1970, p. 302)
The revelations of the Pastoral Constitution demonstrated the need for reform in Catholic editions, and this reform generated many speedy and occasionally confusing reforms in the manner of religious education in Catholic schools. The newly found goals of the institutions being to make religion a living thing for students and reform or throw out the traditional teaching practices, which had been focused almost exclusively upon Catholic educational standards and beliefs. (The Religion Report, 2002) In many ways the desire to change such practices and methods was a result of both direct educational failures with regard to religious adherence post-education but also as a result of overall concerns about the manner in which Catholic evangelizing had been challenged all over the world, in response to its strict adherence to traditions that did not meet the needs or new liberal understandings of modern men, women and children. (O'Malley, 1989, pp. 11-12)
This sentiment, among others had begun to make the church feel as if its standards and practices of the past were no longer relavant and timely and therefore were in need of change. As educational standards began to change, and respond to new understandings of the world the scope of education also began to change. The change was uncomfortable at first, given that the majority of Catholic schools, at the primary secondary and seminary levels were taught almost exclusively by those with vocation for the fait...