On 29 November, the Archbishop of Olomouc, Jan Graubner, participated in the founding session of the International Scientific Council of Catholic Teachers, annexed to the Teacher-Training Faculty at the Catholic University of Ruzomberok, in Slovakia. The Council, founded thanks to the initiative of Bishop Andrzej Dziega of Sandomierz (Poland), is aimed at seeking new ways of developing Catholic education in the broad sense: not only the teaching of the Catechism, but also teaching at a more general level, in the light of the Catholic view of teaching as a means of social recuperation. The founding members of the Council are university teachers from Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, united by similar experiences in a situation like that of the countries of Eastern Europe, characterized by a Communist past. The International Scientific Council is however open to the membership of professors in other countries.
