Religion in Life Resources

Highway to Heaven Series

A Curriculum in Religion

      As early as 1924, when Edward A. Fitzpatrick came to Marquette University as a professor of education, he began preparing to build an entirely new curriculum in elementary-level religious education, based on the best pedagogical...

Highway to Heaven Series

Religion in Life Curriculum Fifth Grade Teachers Plan Book and Manual

      Developed in the 1930s by the Marquette Institute of Catechetical Research, the Religion in Life Curriculum is more than just a Teacher's Manual for use with its accompanying textbook series, The Highway to Heaven.  It lays out...

Highway to Heaven Series

Religion in Life Curriculum Fourth Grade Teachers Plan Book and Manual

      Developed in the 1930s by the Marquette Institute of Catechetical Research, the Religion in Life Curriculum is more than just a Teacher's Manual for use with its accompanying textbook series, The Highway to Heaven.  It lays out...

Highway to Heaven Series

Religion in Life Curriculum Third Grade Teachers Plan Book and Manual

      Developed in the 1930s by the Marquette Institute of Catechetical Research, the Religion in Life Curriculum is more than just a Teacher's Manual for use with its accompanying textbook series, The Highway to Heaven.  It lays out...

Highway to Heaven Series

Religion in Life Curriculum Second Grade Teachers Plan Book and Manual

      Developed in the 1930s by the Marquette Institute of Catechetical Research, the Religion in Life Curriculum is more than just a Teacher's Manual for use with its accompanying textbook series, The Highway to Heaven.  It lays out...

Highway to Heaven Series

Religion in Life Curriculum First Grade Teachers Plan Book and Manual

      Developed in the 1930s by the Marquette Institute of Catechetical Research, the Religion in Life Curriculum is more than just a Teacher's Manual for use with its accompanying textbook series, The Highway to Heaven.  It lays out...

Highway to Heaven Series

Practical Problems in Religion

      Practical Problems in Religion was designed as a Teacher's Manual of sorts for the book The Highway to God, the 7th and 8th Grade textbook in the Highway to Heaven Series.  It explores the discussion questions from that...

Mother Mary Loyola

Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Written for Children

      James Cardinal Gibbons was Archbishop of Baltimore when he asked Mother Loyola to write this story of the Life of our Lord. As a revered author himself, and considering the number of such stories available even then, we can only...

Mother Mary Loyola

First Confession

      The greatest challenge in preparing young children for the Sacrament of Penance is in making confession a habit to which they will be voluntarily attracted. We can require their presence at catechism class, and compel them to go to...

Mother Mary Loyola

First Communion

      Around the year 1890, a rather extraordinary nun began writing a very extraordinary book: one that would help children prepare for the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist. It would revolutionize children's catechesis by making the teachings...