Gerard O'Shea
Gerard O'Shea
Gerard O'Shea is Professor of Religious Education and assistant dean of the School of Education at the University of Notre Dame, Australia (Sydney campus). He spent over thirty years as a teacher and principal in Catholic schools before taking up an academic position. Gerard is fully trained in Sofia Cavalletti’s Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and was one of the lead writers for the Australian religious education text series “To Know, Worship and Love.” He has consulted widely in the field of religious education for Australian Catholic dioceses and recently recorded eight sessions for the Catechetical Institute of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. His handbook for training parents to educate their own children in a Christian vision of sexuality, “As I Have Loved You,” is being used throughout the English-speaking world.