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An Intensive Summer School in Academic Drawing for Catholics – Useful Whatever Your Preferred Tradition

by David Clayton on May 10, 2013 · 0 comments

Learn the Academic Method and Earn College Credit Whatever your preferred style of art, I always feel, if you are an artist who seeks to create beautiful work you must learn to draw. Drawing is the core discipline, the musical…

The Liturgy and the Trinity and the Heart of Man

by David Clayton on December 28, 2012 · 0 comments

St Irenaeus and St Augustine on ‘seeing’ God Here are two short excerpts taken from the Office of Readings. The first, from St Ireneaus, is from Advent and the second, from St Augustine, is from the Octave of Christmas. Both,…

Floor Tiles from Cleve Abbey in Somerset, England

by David Clayton on October 22, 2012 · 0 comments

Here are some pictures of 13th century tiles from Cleeve Abbey in England. They are a combination of geometric and pictorial designs. The latter employing heraldic and literary themes rather than scriptural. The form will be familiar to some through…

Is Inequality the Cause of Our Worst Social Ills?

by Carson Holloway on October 10, 2012 · 2 comments

Contemporary American liberalism suffers from a serious self-delusion that hampers it both as a governing philosophy and a political movement. Liberals tend to present themselves as pragmatic problem solvers, identifying and correcting social ills by the pure light of reason.…

The Fra Angelico Institute for Sacred Arts – based in the diocese of Providence, Rhode Island

by David Clayton October 2, 2012

Going local is the way to change society The culture is a an expression of the core priorities, beliefs and values of a society. This expression is not so much articulated by a governing body that dictates it (the European…

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The Music of Roman Hurko and the Principle of Noble Accessibility

by David Clayton September 11, 2012

Below is some new music written by Roman Hurko, a Byzantine Catholic. It is the Our Father from his Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, which has recently come to my attention.I have written a couple of times on the importance…

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The Church and the False Political Divide

by Paul Wilson September 6, 2012

There is an unfortunate tendency to view the Catholic Church as divided into “liberal” and “conservative” wings. This vision results from the modern age’s foolish tendency to view every issue through a binary political prism.
This vision is fundamentally flawed.…

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None So Blind as Catholics Who Refuse to See

by Dr. Paul Kengor July 3, 2012

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A friend of mine was telling me about the latest political doings of her father. Her father is in his 70s, lives in Western Pennsylvania, a lifelong union man, Catholic, and Democrat. He is also conservative and…

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The Question of More or Less Government

by Mark W. Hendrickson June 22, 2012

Theoretically, the elemental political choice in a democratic system is between more government or less—more government control over our lives and livelihood, or less; more government spending and programs than the year before, or less; more government power, or less.
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Academic Art – cast drawings by students from Thomas More College of Liberal Arts

by David Clayton June 19, 2012

Here are examples of cast drawings by freshman students at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts They study the academic method of drawing. This is a systematic drawing method that developed in the High Renaissance and can be traced back…

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