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Two Roman Catholic journals have published papers co-authored by a Seventh-day Adventist academic from Avondale College.

Senior education lecturer Dr John Watts presented a paper with former doctoral student Dr Jim Hanley at the Fifth National Symposium on Religious Education and Ministry in Brisbane in June. The paper, entitled "A hermeneutic case study approach to exploring continuing ethos in religious institutions," has since appeared in the Catholic school studies. A related paper, "Continuing the Catholic ethos and identity of a Catholic institution when disengaged from its foundational religious founders or traditions: an Australian case study," has also appeared in The Australasian Catholic record.

John and Jim are currently writing two manuscripts relating to values in Catholic religious institutions, and a revised conceptualisation of catholicity. Archbishop John Michael Miller, secretary for the Congregation for Catholic Education at the Vatican, quoted John and Jim's work during the opening keynote speech at the Australian Catholic University's Leadership Conference in Sydney.