by office | Jun 2, 2022 | Free Content, Quadrivium: The Arts of Number, Stories of Renewal, The Fine Arts
I hadn’t heard the St. Augustine Academy school choir for some time until recently, when I was blown away by this recording from their recent Dinner Auction. So I began an investigation into what has been going on musically there, which led me to the instigator of...
by jpthurau@catholicliberaleducation.org | Jun 2, 2022 | Free Content, Library
As a student growing up, I never imagined that my teachers were looking forward to summer break as much as I was. But once I became a teacher and realized that teachers were human like everyone else, it occurred to me that they had probably been the ones most excited...
by office | Jun 2, 2022 | Archives, Free Content, Reading Room
For classical educators, developing the human person is the primary goal, and the cultural treasures of the past are the principal means to that goal. Making the thoughts, words, stories and beauty of Christian civilization a living part of students gives them...
by office | Apr 22, 2022 | Free Content, History
Restoring the Catholic Historical Imagination” — my title for this paper — is itself problematic. Why should anyone want to restore an imagination of history, that record of what J.R.R. Tolkien called “the long defeat”? At first glance, ancient history...
by office | Apr 22, 2022 | Free Content
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 | Apr 22, 2022 | Free Content
In a series of imagined dialogues, Blessed John Henry Newman, one the greatest authors of nineteenth century England, gave an account of his University’s entrance tests. These oral examinations sought to determine how well potential university students could read the...
