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- How to Choose the Right Catholic High School for Your Children
- Newsflash: Just Because You Know What Virtue is Does Not Mean You are Virtuous.
- Do Your Children Know the Ten Commandments?
- Pagan Greeks Saw Easter Coming 500 Years Before It Happened!
- Feasting and Easter
- Did you know that our Lord’s death was a miracle?
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- Did Jesus Really Become Sorrowful?
- Is There Such a Thing as Catholic Music?
- Is the Four-Hymn Mass What the Church Really Wants?
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Category Archives: catholic education
Three Reasons Why Catholic Classical Education is a Tough Sell
Genuine Catholic education appears to be a product which doesn’t sell itself. That was a bit of a surprise for me when I was a freshly minted teacher. Naturally, I thought that an excellent school would flourish immediately. Word about the … Continue reading
How to Choose the Right Catholic High School for Your Children
I suppose twenty-eight years involved in small Catholic schools qualifies me as an experienced educator. Or at least it has provided me with plenty of experience in listening to parents and their children on the subject of “How to Choose … Continue reading
Posted in catholic education, classical education, education
Tagged Cassandra, Electives, Herodotus, High School, Xerxes
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Open Letter to My Daughter(s)
Is there anyone who was not profoundly touched by the flurry of open letters that loving parents wrote to their daughters concerning the recent election of our new president? (for example here and here and here) Ms. Sallie Krawcheck consoles her daughter after the … Continue reading
Learning in Election Time
In a sermon delivered in the Fall of 1939 titled Learning in Wartime , C.S. Lewis asserts, every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question compared with which the questions raised by the war are … Continue reading
Posted in catholic education, classical education, Liberal Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged Archimedes, C.S.Lewis, Election, Learning in Wartime, Thomas More, Wolfe
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The Secret to Beautiful Liturgy: Leave it to the Kids!
This morning I attended a simple daily Mass along with 60 students in grades 6-12. Let’s see, that places them somewhere between the ages of 11 and 18. So given that there were only 70 people in the church – … Continue reading
My Apology to The Supreme Court of The United States of America
I meant to have written this little post several weeks ago before the Supreme Court announced its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Obviously, the nation had a right to know what the ancient pagan Greeks would say about Marriage, and I am … Continue reading
Posted in catholic education, classical education, Philosophy of Nature, Socrates
Tagged Berquist, Marriage, Obergefell v. Hodges
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The Die is Cast
Catholic Liberal Education presents an interesting dilemma that sooner or later presents its most enthusiastic proponents with a stark choice. It is the kind of dilemma that Julius Caesar faced in 49 BC before he crossed the Rubicon with his army. A decision must be made … Continue reading
Posted in catholic education, classical education, Custom, fashion
Tagged Alea iacta est, esse quam videri, Julius Caesar, Real Education
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