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Peter and Catherine Fournier
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Peter and Catherine Fournier
Peter and Catherine Fournier created and manage the largest
Catholic family web site on the Internet - Domestic-Church.com.
Inspired by Pope John Paul II's Familiaris Consortio, "The Role of the
Christian Family in the Modern World" the web site is dedicated to promoting
a Catholic culture of the home. They believe that the renewal of a Catholic
culture in the world depends on the renewal of the Catholic family. Peter grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and obtained a degree in
Biology; Ecology and Systematics from the University of Ottawa. He has
taught bird-watching courses at a community college, worked for the
Canadian Museum of Nature as a program designer and interpreter, the
Canadian Consumer Magazine as a writer and research editor, and Nortel
as a documentation manager. He turned the sow's ear of a Nortel layoff
into the silk-purse of working at home full time with his wife and is
currently self-employed as a technical writer and writing services manager. Catherine was born in Southern Ontario. As a child, she attended schools in Ottawa and Montreal, Canada; Glasgow, Scotland; and Liverpool England (where, yes, she walked down Penny Lane!). She completed two years of post-secondary education at Carleton University in Ottawa before enrolling full-time in Mommy school where she sits at the back of the class and passes notes.
Peter and Catherine were married in 1976, and now have six children aged 27 to 15. After her conversion to Catholicism in 1978, Catherine and Peter began looking for activities and traditions that would help them live their faith in daily life and transmit their faith to their children. To their surprise, they discovered very few practical resources available to help with this most important of tasks. Their web site, books and presentations provide other parents, families, catechists and teachers what they and others have discovered, developed and used in their own families. Drawing on both their scientific training and experience with adult and youth education and informed by their own experiences of developing faith activities in their home, Peter and Catherine's dynamic and inspirational presentations inform and inspire parents to build a Catholic culture of the home, one that immerses each member of the family in a Catholic way of Being. The Catholic faith is an "incarnational" faith - families need to bring it to life, in real, practical, immediate, tangible ways. They show you how. Ours is an evangelical faith - families need to share their faith through the activities of their daily lives. They show you how. Topics include:
Catherine has written hundreds of articles on the topic of Catholic
family life, was assistant editor of the Nazareth Journal for three
years and had a regular column in Canticle Magazine "Life in the Domestic
Church." Peter and Catherine have co-authored three family resource
books and two children's educational activity books. Domestic-Church.com |
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