by office | Nov 15, 2023 | Free Content, Science
How should a Catholic think about the scientific discoveries, theories and uses that almost dominate contemporary culture? For some, science has such a sacred aura that any scientific report is accepted with a kind of false faith as “Gospel” truth. For others, science...
by office | Sep 13, 2023 | Free Content, History, Trivium: The Arts of Language
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...
by office | Dec 1, 2022 | Free Content, In Practice, Quadrivium: The Arts of Number, Science
The Science Content Standards for California Public Schools proposes that the science curriculum has as its goal forming “scientifically literate citizens in the twenty-first century.” This means that by the time students graduate from high school, they should...
by office | Dec 1, 2022 | Free Content, Mathematics, Virtue
In the cultural wasteland of the ’70s, where peace and love had degenerated into sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, precious few lights beckoned to youth who met license, pornography, and drugs everywhere. Yet Providence did not wholly abandon us. From time to time, I...
by office | Dec 1, 2022 | Free Content, School Spotlight, Stories of Renewal
When John Pica took the helm of Saint Agatha Academy in Winchester, Kentucky, seven years ago, the academic program at the school was neither broken nor struggling. He felt his own three children had received an excellent education and firm Catholic foundation at the...
