Reviews the legal ramifications of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 for instructors and librarians, offering specific guidelines about fair use of films and videotapes. (DMM)

A report of the October 1973 meeting of the Chief Administrators of the NCEA in Boston. (GB)

A special program to help young people find and live values is described (CD)

Assesses the current status of catechesis and religious education in Australian Catholic schools and parishes. Notes recent efforts and offers suggestions for improving religious education in those settings. (DMM)

Presents an edited letter to an archbishop from a professor resisting the mandating process for Catholic professors outlined in the church's "Ex Corde Ecclesiae." The letter offers an analysis of theological and legal flaws in the guidelines. (EV)

Addresses the need to renew continually the conceptual clarity of American Catholic religious education and to patiently endure educational development without becoming too easily satisfied. (Author/RK)

Describes the development of a video-based training program for the formation and certification of catechists for the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware. Offers information on the need and rationale for the program, the production of the videocassettes and learner's manual, and responses to the program. (DMM)

Explores how learning policies can enhance efforts to implement the Catholic bishops' peace pastoral. Focuses on balance between conscience and authority, resolution of conflict, and education stressing the importance of the person. (LAL)

Describes the use of miniconventions to bring NCEA educational service to Catholic educators in various parts of the country who cannot attend the NCEA national convention. (GB)

Considered the role of the catechist in formulating religious belief. (RK)

Presented at the 1969 NCEA Convention.

Suggests guidelines on how media can be used by religious educators and others in fostering youth's personal integrity while helping to socialize them into the religious culture. The accent is on the dynamics of the process of religious socialization rather than on specific media. Fourteen references are listed. (Author/LLS)