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

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.” – John 15:11 Joy is at the heart of the Gospel. It might even be said that joy is the Gospel, the Good News itself. All our longing & searching seeks some end; our restless hearts...Read More

“If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” – John 8:32   True freedom – more than merely being without constraint or restriction – is found in one’s ability to do the Good. Put differently, it is one’s ability...Read More

“School children and students who love God should never say: ‘For my part, I like mathematics; ‘I like French’; ‘I like Greek’. They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.” -Simone Weil Attention is the faculty...Read More

“Philosophy begins in wonder” – Plato All searching for wisdom, all attempting to encounter reality, all seeking the grain of the universe begins with wonder. The philosophers say that the most fundamental question we can ask is, why is there something rather than nothing? The fact that there is anything at all, poses a question...Read More