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Category: Education
New Traditional Catholic College!
Since Pope Benedict XVI released Summorum Pontificum in 2007, the Traditional Latin Mass has experienced steady growth, including in more recent years (see data here). One need only read many of the accounts offered of these Masses around the blogosphere …
The Magna Carta of Christian Education
When Pius XI promulgated his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri on December 31, 1929, it became the most important papal document to date on the Christian education of youth—a distinction it has retained to this day. With good reason did contemporaries …
Make Catholic Higher Education Catholic Again
My Open Letter of Application for Catholic College Chancellorship: To the powers-that-be on campus: Good morning! I am writing to you to humbly request consideration to be hired as your new Chancellor (or whatever you call the “top job” on …
Serious Problems with the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a new program introduced to Catholic parishes and promises to implement new methods to make catechesis interesting and engaging. Though a quick glance at this program reveals an impressive way of teaching with …
5 Reasons to Keep Homeschooling after COVID
When COVID-19 became a worldwide phenomenon, many states, like my native Virginia, closed schools for the remainder of the year and are deliberating on whether or not they will reopen in the fall. This means that parents across the country …
A Plea for the Restoration of Latin and Latinity
I could write at considerable length about the value and the glory of the Latin language. I spend some of my time teaching Latin. You may imagine how I feel when somebody says to me that “Latin is a dead …
Summer School in Wisconsin: Traditional Theology, Traditional Liturgy
Summer Theology Program 2019 St. Thomas’ Commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians August 12–16 in Wausau, Wisconsin Hosted by the St. Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies, in collaboration with The Aquinas Institute for the …
Why the Red Pill Year Should Have Preceded 2018
“Red-pilling” is a metaphor that has caught fire in the traditional Catholic world in the last year. It is drawn from the movie, now almost 20 years old, The Matrix. The main character, Neo, is given the choice to see …
Relying on a Catholic School to Catechize Your Child? Be Careful.
I loved primary school. I loved my teachers. I loved my friends. I loved history lessons. And I loved R.E. lessons. We had them about twice a week, and I believed that the topics we covered were helping me to …