Smartphones have been made an indispensable appendage for anyone who must function in society. But with their necessity, the challenge to discipline ourselves to use them responsibly is great. For children and their parents, that can be especially difficult.

Teaching history is fundamental to a classical education. It is a collection of memories handed down in stories that define who we are. Those stories are preserved and come to life in great literature through which we can see the historical struggles and triumphs of our shared humanity. We can only truly know who we...

Are our lives meaningless? Absolutely not. Pope Francis wrote in Evangelii Gaudium that “formation in the via pulchritudinis (the way of beauty) ought to be part of our effort to pass on the Faith.” In the Regina Academies, we have an opportunity to surround our students with beauty, whether it be in nature, the liturgy,...

The Incarnation is the foundation of a Catholic curriculum. We teach, with absolute confidence, that we can understand and communicate truth through language. Our goal is that students become masters of words.

We Americans, surrounded by our devices and other distractions, tend to use our available “leisure” time to escape into idleness and amusements. Neil Postman wrote about this American cultural problem in a 1985 book he appropriately called: Amusing Ourselves to Death.

Originally published on Dec. 18, 2020 at https://reginaacademies.org/2020/12/18/the-word-was-made-flesh/ Christmas, 2020 In just a few days, when we all gather at our parishes to celebrate Christmas Mass, we will do something we only do once each year –  genuflect as we recite these words of the Creed… “…by the Holy Spirit [he] was incarnate of the...

Formation of the imagination through our heritage of art and letters is exactly what classical schools do. In Catholic classical schools, the moral imagination is formed by truth, goodness, and beauty, or what we call the transcendentals, as they are found in our great heritage of western civilization.

Originally published on October 20, 2020 at https://reginaacademies.org/2020/10/20/originals-or-photocopies/ Formation in virtue is one of the hallmarks of the Regina Academies. If you haven’t heard of him, Carlo Acutis was a very special young man. He was born in London in 1991 but fell ill with leukemia and died in Milan on October 12, 2006 at...

Originally published on October 8, 2020 at https://reginaacademies.org/2020/10/08/the-trivium/ Classical education often seems to have its own language to those unfamiliar with classical schools. We talk about memetic teaching, paideia and the liberal arts, and that favorite of all words… “trivium”. The “trivium” is a hallmark of classical schools, and in many ways it establishes our...

Originally published on September 4, 2020 at https://reginaacademies.org/2020/09/04/patriotism/ There is a beautiful verse in the well-known Marian hymn, Immaculate Mary, that says: We pray for our Mother, the Church upon earth,And bless, Holy Mary, the land of our birth. These two lines of verse express two important virtues, piety and patriotism, that are challenging to...