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...

Originally published on August 26, 2020 at https://reginaacademies.org/2020/08/26/education-or-indoctrination/ It was recently reported that a teacher in a Philadelphia public charter school lamented on his Twitter that with the Philadelphia schools going virtual again this fall, he wouldn’t be able to have “honest conversations about gender/sexuality” with his students. His reason… parents might be “spectators” in...