by office | Sep 22, 2022 | Free Content, In Practice, Library, Theology
What are we doing? In today’s confusing, demanding world, Catholic educators must frequently ask this question of themselves. Standards, tests, mandates, accreditation, programs, parents, students, board members, pull us this way and that all the time. But what is our...
by office | Sep 22, 2022 | Free Content, Library, Quadrivium: The Arts of Number, The Fine Arts
Imagine finding yourself at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome with someone who is simply bored with the whole thing and can’t wait to get back to the hotel to watch TV. You would no doubt be annoyed, but also disturbed that the person could be unmoved by so much beauty,...
by office | Aug 1, 2022 | Free Content
What Few Are Talking about but What is Absolutely Necessary for Authentic Educational Reform— In our times, entertainments of choice, especially for school age children and young adults, are primarily electronic: video games, television, movies, music, and certain...
by office | Aug 1, 2022 | Free Content
Catholic parents are usually grateful that their children are enrolled in Catholic schools. Often they punctuate their expression of thanks with the remark that “at least there I know my kids are getting some instruction in the Catholic faith.” When I hear such...
by office | Aug 1, 2022 | Free Content
Of the classes I can recall from high school, among the most tedious was sophomore history. History class with Mr. Faulmann (an alias) was almost invariably the same. On an overhead projector, he would place an outline of the chapter he had assigned us to read and...
