by Hannah Naughton | Jan 31, 2025 | Catholic Identity & Culture, Free Content, Library, The Fine Arts, The Liberal Arts Educator
With Christmas season past, the Catholic Church has been enjoying a few weeks of ordinary time, the growing season. However, many of us have perhaps started to realize that Lent is just around the corner. Lent, the forty day season of prayer, fasting, and...
by Hannah Naughton | Jan 6, 2025 | Catholic Identity & Culture, Free Content, In Practice, Library, Uncategorized
Shrove Tuesday takes its title from the English verb to shrive, meaning to confess and receive absolution. It is the traditional English name for what we more commonly hear called Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. In the British tradition, it is the last day of the period...
by Hannah Naughton | Dec 3, 2024 | Free Content, Library, Literature, Trivium: The Arts of Language
Several years ago, some friends recommended a dystopian novel that was very popular within Catholic academic circles. The book had a lot to say about our contemporary situation, they said. It was a sharp critique of where we’re heading and the kinds of fallout...
by Hannah Naughton | Nov 4, 2024 | Catholic Identity & Culture, Free Content, Library
“Prepare ye the way of the Lord,make straight his paths.Every valley shall be filled;and every mountain and hill shall be brought low;and the crooked shall be made straight;and the rough ways plain;and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”Luke 3:4-6 Advent is...
by Hannah Naughton | Oct 1, 2024 | Free Content, Library, The Liberal Arts Educator
The Church boldly declares that “Each of the sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way.”¹ A profound statement, surely, yet as an educator I am always quick to ask what this might mean practically for education,...
by Hannah Naughton | Sep 20, 2024 | Free Content, Library, The Liberal Arts Educator
Beauty in the Imago Dei 2024 National Conference Keynote AddressMost Reverend Earl K. Fernandes, Bishop of ColumbusBenedictine College, Atchison, KS, July 9, 2024 Introduction My Dear Friends in Christ, I am happy to be with you as you address this year’s theme,...