October 19, 2001

Catholic Colleges Use Distance Education to Train Lay Ministers

BY MICHAEL ARNONE

A drop in the number of Roman Catholic clergy members and a rise in the number of Catholics living in the United States have led more Catholic colleges to use distance-education programs to train their lay members to perform some ministerial tasks. While the institutions uniformly see a great need for pastoral distance education, some debate exists on whether online courses fit as well with Catholic teaching traditions as more traditional distance-learning techniques.

Officials at some

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