ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the way in which the shape or focus of research in Catholic education has been given a discernible direction by Gerald Grace. It describes the importance of empirical study in relation to Catholic education. The book also explores the significance that Grace attaches to the 1977 guidance document issued by the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome, known as The Catholic School. Gerald Grace deserves to be praised for his achievements in relation to Catholic education. He is responsible for much new thinking, new research and new scholarship in what is now a firmly established field of international study. His Catholic Christian faith chimes perfectly with his academic convictions in relation to the sociology of education.
