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by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Catechism, Catholic Schools, Featured, Homeschooling, News, public school | 0 |
Hi. I’m T.J., and I’m a homeschooling failure. Well, that’s not TOTALLY true, but my wife and I did attempt homeschooling our eldest for her Kindergarten year. Once spring hit, we realized that God was not calling us to continue. We discerned our hearts out and reluctantly signed our kids up to attend school and, […]
by bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | family, Featured, Homeschooling, Marriage & Family, motherhood, News | 0 |
I peered into the long, dimly lit hallway of a local chapel, unsure of what to expect. I came empty-handed, then realized I probably should have asked what to bring. It was my first time attending a homeschooling curriculum share for our regional cooperative I had recently joined. As I neared the doorway of a […]
by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2020 | 2020 election, Donald J. Trump, Featured, Homeschooling, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Knights of Columbus, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines, Wilton Gregory | 0 |
“Enemy-occupied territory: that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.” — C. S. Lewis “A Christian has only to be in order to change the world, for […]
by bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, Homeschooling, News, podcast | 0 |
At the outset of the Covid pandemic, every single diocese in the United States suspended public Masses. For over two months—including Easter Sunday—most of us have been in exiled from our churches and chapels. Was it right for the bishops to keep us from the Blessed Sacrament? Was it right to place our physical health […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 12, 2020 | Art & Culture, Coronavirus, Featured, Homeschooling, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Since mid-March, journalists across the country have been announcing that we have suddenly become a nation of homeschoolers. “The coronavirus has turned caregivers around the world into homeschoolers,” declares CNN. Media outlets from USA Today to the Washington Post have been posting homeschooling tips for disoriented parents and even more disoriented kids: read aloud with […]
by bcadmin | May 5, 2020 | Art & Culture, Coronavirus, Featured, Homeschooling, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Both Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas speak of the debts of gratitude we owe to others—to God, to our parents, to our city or nation—anyone from whom we receive benefits. We pay our debts by giving to each benefactor what is due to him, according to our abilities. Often, the best we can do is […]
by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, Harvard University, Homeschooling, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
In loco parentis means “in the place of the parents.” It is an old legal concept that once had a venerable place in Western law. The doctrine of in loco parentis was invoked when people or institutions had to act in the place of parents. Schools, for example, were deemed to share in a parent’s […]
by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2020 | 2020, After the Force Majeure, Catholic Church, Catholicism, chastening, Columns, Consumption, COVID-19, Disruption of higher education, God, Homeschooling, Jesus Christ, Michael Pakaluk, News, pro-life, Ruben Östlund, Swedish film Force Majeure, The Catholic Thing, The role of the laity, Work | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk: We will see changes in some aspects of post-COVID-19 life. Let’s draw out of this trial as much good as we can – and then preserve it.
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