Some Elements and Principles of Confessional Cooperation in Religious Education

Sa？etak The paper analyzes the reasons, content and terms of confessional cooperation in the teaching of Catholic religious education. The paper examines some elements that provide conditions for confessional cooperation in religious education and tries to produce some catechetic principles for confessional cooperation in religious education teaching, after the example and experiences from FR Germany. The second part of the paper presents the challenges that religious education will face regarding the practice, institutional and scientific level and local catechists. In the third part, within the socio-cultural and religious context of the Republic of Croatia, religious educa tion is defined as a theological place into which the didactic principles of holistic and group teaching as well as the contents of social teaching of the Catholic Church need to be integrated, thus building the foundations of open and cooperative teaching, of interreligious and ecumenical character, based on the Council teaching, on bioethical principles and on the contents of social teaching of the Catholic Church