On Right Sentiment in the Church

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by St. Ignatius of Loyola Let the following Rules be observed. First Rule:  All judgment laid aside, we ought to have our mind ready and prompt to obey, in all, the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, which is our holy Mother the Church Hierarchical. Second Rule:  To praise confession to a Priest, and the reception of the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar once in the year, and much more each month, and much better from week to week, with the conditions required and due. Third Rule:  To praise the hearing of Mass often, likewise hymns, psalms, and long prayers, … Continue

Let’s Speak Correctly about Christian Education

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As a Classicist and Lay Dominican, I cringe when I hear Christians today talking about “Classical Education”. What schools are offering is not “classical education”–let’s be clear about that. Any time we speak about classical Greece and Rome, or medieval Christendom, there is only one kind of “education” and that’s a classical liberal arts education directed at philosophy. That’s what “classical education” is. There was no compulsory education before the 1850s. Very few children attended schools and those that did were prepared for learned vocations: law, medicine, politics, religion and philosophy. The education offered to those students was “classical education”. … Continue

It’s Time to Build Your Résumé

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When students move on into adult life, they enter into a world of applications and interviews. We live in a competitive, high-tech, capitalistic society and both schools and employers are looking for the best candidates they can find. Many students accomplish little due to time wasted on social media, idle activities, video games, etc., and make excuses for doing so day by day. There’s always an excuse for this and a reason for that. They tell themselves that they are smart and good and know what they’re doing. As long as they are able to be the only judges in … Continue

Newman on the Secular Sciences

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“In order to have possession of truth at all, we must have the whole truth; and no one science, no two sciences, nay, not even all secular science,is the whole truth.” St. John Henry NewmanOn the Idea of a University (1919)

The Difference between Learning and Schooling

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In this talk, Mr. William C. Michael of the Classical Liberal Arts Academy discusses the difference between learning and schooling. “The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom.” (Sirach 38:25)

St. Albert the Great (1200-1280)

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Albert was born around 1200 AD. As a youth, he was sent to pursue his studies at the University of Padua, a city famous for its culture of the liberal arts. In the year 1223 he joined the Order of St. Dominic, being attracted by the preaching of Blessed Jordan of Saxony second Master General of the Order. After completing his studies he taught theology at in a number of German cities. He was in the convent of Cologne, interpreting Peter Lombard’s “Book of the Sentences”, when, in 1245, he was ordered to repair to Paris. There he received the … Continue