USCCB education department creates catechetical scholarship

Published: 2004-06-15

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Department of Education of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has announced the creation of the Berard L. Marthaler Scholarship for Educational and Catechetical Leadership. The award honors Father Marthaler, a Conventual Franciscan, for his 30 years of service as executive editor of the quarterly catechetical journal The Living Light. Father Marthaler is a professor emeritus of religious studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington. The Living Light was established in 1964 and since 1966 it has been a publication of the bishops' education department. The journal will end publication with its summer issue. The Marthaler scholarship, worth approximately $1,000, will cover tuition for one person each year to attend the Diocesan Educational/Catechetical Leadership Institute.

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