Tag 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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Newman and the “Education of a Gentleman”

Posted on August 24, 2025 by marklangley

I have been telling my students for a long time that, if they had lived around 600 BC, the requirements for graduation consisted in having studied two principal works The Iliad and The Odyssey. Having mastered these foundational texts, they … 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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Day 42 The Resurrection of the Body

Posted on March 16, 2023 by marklangley

In this episode we commence our study of Article XI in the Creed “the resurrection of the body.” In addition to reading the Catechism, we also consider the Summa Theologica where St Thomas writes about the incorruptibility of the soul. … Continue reading →

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Day 26 Useful Considerations About The Resurrection Of Christ

Posted on February 17, 2023 by marklangley

In this episode we conclude our study of Article V of the Apostles Creed “He Descended into Hell, The third day He rose again from the dead.” The Catechism sets forth four reasons why the resurrection is necessary: as manifesting … Continue reading →

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Day 13 And in Jesus Christ His Only Son Our Lord

Posted on January 29, 2023 by marklangley

In this episode we discuss the opening treatment of the second Article of Faith in the Catechism of the Council of Trent: The advantages and necessity of this article of Faith. Additionally, we take a brief look at the Summa … 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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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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Learning in Virus Time

Posted on March 9, 2020 by marklangley

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 →

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