“Why have you chosen to stay at Canongate?” The education, the mentors, and the community, to be able to go to an environment in which I can be open and vocal about my beliefs. “How do you think Canongate is different than other schools?” Rather than just a school, it’s family, a family that is...Read More
“Why did you choose to come to Canongate?” I chose to come to Canongate because it sounded special. I wanted to participate in the plays and to experience something I had never experienced before. “Why have you chosen to stay at Canongate?” I chose to stay at Canongate because my parents thought that Canongate was...Read More
Imagine if we took away all the things that make it obvious Canongate is a Catholic school. Imagine if we ceased attending daily Mass, praying the Divine Office and the Angelus, requiring four courses in Catholic theology. Imagine if we stopped training our students in sacred music and art, studying the Church’s language of Latin,...Read More
The ancient understanding of naming a thing is that a name reveals something true about the thing named. Referring to Adam naming the animals, Thomas Aquinas teaches that “God led the animals to man, that he might give them names expressive of their respective natures.” For example, the Latin word for horse is equus, from which...Read More
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