Presenting the Beautiful: The Joyful Duty of Catholic Education -The Imaginative Conservative

Presenting the Beautiful: The Joyful Duty of Catholic Education -The Imaginative Conservative

Beauty has an important place in the central activities of Catholic education. Learning requires discipline but deep down is a feast for the mind and heart. “Too late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, ever ancient, ever new!” St. Augustine was in his forties by the time he penned this personal lament. As readers of the Confessions know (and the Confessions has been a universal must-read for 1600 years), Augustine wasted himself for 30 years before he…

Archbishop at General Assembly of Catholic Schools in Angola Advocates for Education “that form healthy consciences”

The President of the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST) has underscored the need for learning institutions that facilitate the forming of “healthy consciences”. In his homily during the opening Mass of the 19th General Assembly of Catholic Schools, Archbishop José Manuel Imbamba urged officials of learning institutions to prioritize quality teaching in their respective institutions. “Our society cries out for schools…