Category Archives: liberal education

Celebrating Christ The King Sunday In A Democratic Republic

Posted on November 22, 2025 by marklangley

Can we all just admit it? The chief disadvantage of living in the “greatest nation on God’s green earth” is that we Americans find it just a little tougher to sympathize with and even celebrate Monarchy. I mean, wouldn’t we … Continue reading →

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Liberal Arts and Fine Arts: Understanding the Trivium, Quadrivium, and the Place of Music in Catholic Education

Posted on August 28, 2024 by marklangley

What better way to commence the new academic year than to reflect on the significance of sacred music in the education of our students! Some months back, we were humbled by Dr. Donelson-Nowicka’s invitation to join her on her excellent … Continue reading →

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Make Your House Fair as You are Able!

Posted on December 23, 2021 by marklangley

What is Christmas about? What is Advent about except to prepare for and celebrate the arrival of Wisdom Himself, in the form of a little baby, into the warm hospitable stables of our own hearts! We have been doing our … Continue reading →

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Why Has Education Collapsed?

Posted on July 11, 2021 by marklangley

Over the course of my thirty years as an unwitting member of a loosely knit community that might even amount to a ‘movement’-an education reform movement-I have certainly met many whom I feel fortunate to call friends, who care deeply … Continue reading →

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How Does Anyone Love the Lord God With the Whole Mind?

Posted on October 26, 2020 by marklangley

In this last Sunday’s Gospel we hear, You shall love the Lord, your God,with all your heart,with all your soul,and with all your mind. Now I think most people are familiar with the first two thirds of this injunction- we … Continue reading →

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Pope Pius XI: Encouragement for Teachers From a Teacher’s Pope

Posted on August 21, 2020 by marklangley

No matter what ails the nation, turmoil in the inner city, conflagrations, and riots, anxiety over the upcoming election, fears rational and irrational, nonetheless, along with the season of fall there arrives the insuppressible feeling of a new academic year! … Continue reading →

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The Civil War Did Not End These Four Kinds of Slavery.

Posted on July 8, 2020 by marklangley

The bad news is that the Civil War did not put an end to slavery. Sure, the Civil War did end the apparent and visible slavery that made legal the ownership of human beings by other human beings, whereby the … Continue reading →

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Are You a Slave to Fashion?

Posted on June 16, 2020 by marklangley

I don’t have any strong objection to men dressing according to the fashions of the 12th or 13th century if they happen to live in the 12th or 13th century. I assume the gentleman in the picture thought that he … Continue reading →

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A Confusion about the Common Good

Posted on March 28, 2020 by marklangley

In the not too distant future, I am hoping that someone much brighter than I will perform the heavy philosophical lifting that it will take to state precisely what is wrong with the current approach that our Church is taking … Continue reading →

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A Dialogue Concerning Large Discourse

Posted on March 25, 2020 by marklangley

Today we shall content ourselves with purely intellectual discourse. OX: Why? Lion: Because you and I, my dear Ox, both possess the ability for large discourse! And as we all know, reaching way back to the vestiges and remnants of … Continue reading →

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