The year my older son was three-turning-four, he attended an English nursery school that was — and I hardly exaggerate — a little boy's heaven, a heaven of things to see and try and do.

"And aren't the respective crafts by nature set over them to seek and provide what is to their advantage?" - Socrates, Plato's Republic

Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret.

What's in a Name?

"History is bunk," said the inventor Henry Ford.

"To be always seeking after the useful," said Aristotle, "does not become free and exalted souls."

Newman would have recognized here a deeply kindred spirit.

We must be clear and insist on repentance as the only way to be saved.7

It's good to be able to come together this evening in Convocation.

Despite recent encouraging court victories, it would be a mistake to believe that Catholic education is secure.