Gareth Byrne Editor

Dr Gareth Byrne is Associate Professor of Religious Education and Director of the Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education (MDCCE), Dublin City University. He is published widely in the field of religious education. Among his titles with Veritas are Faith Working Through Love, In the Tender Embrace of God’s Mercy, Love One Another as I Have Loved You, and as editor, with Leslie J. Francis, of Religion and Education: The Voices of Young People in Ireland. Dr Sean Whittle is a Visiting Research Fellow at St Mary’s University, London, and a Research Associate with the Centre for Research and Development in Catholic Education, with Professor Gerald Grace. Alongside his academic roles he works part-time as a secondary school RE teacher at Gumley House FCJ Catholic School in West London. He is the author of A Theory of Catholic Education (2014) and the editor of Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education (2016), Researching Catholic Education (2018), and Religious Education in Catholic schools in the UK and Ireland (2018).