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The First Adeodatus Conference on Catholic Education and Culture

The First Adeodatus Conference on Catholic Education and Culture

Pasadena, CA; June 21-24th. Theme for 2023: Major Sources of Catholic Education and its Renewal, The Formation of the Supernatural Man. Featuring: Michael Waldstein, Andrew Kern, James Matthew Wilson, Ed Feser, R. Jared Staudt, Mike Foley, David Deavel, Fabio Reali, Josef Froula, Fr. Robert Spitzer, Arthur Hippler, Paul Shrimpton, Joe Heschmeyer, Fr. Sebastian Walshe, Margarita Mooney Clayton, Dale Ahlquist, David Whalen, RJ Snell, Andrew Seeley, Deal Hudson, Michael Naughton, and Pater Edmund Waldstein.

The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 3

The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 3

Trying to Understand, and Counter, the Philosophy of Mainstream Art Schools and Contemporary Art Criticism. Part 3. How Marxist theory has entered the mainstream, and how radical, Christian ‘counter-revolutionary’ beauty is the response that will save the world.

The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 2

The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 2

Trying to Understand the Philosophy of Mainstream Art Schools and Contemporary Art Criticism. Part 2, The Appeal of Marxism as a Quasi Religion with It’s Own Salvation History, and the Counter-Revolutionary power of Christian sacred art

The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 1

The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 1

Trying to Understand, and to Counter, the Philosophy of Mainstream Art Schools and Contemporary Art Criticism. Part 1, Postmodernism, an art movement that doesn’t really exist?

Does the Church Need Artists Who Are Humble Scribes? Or Original Geniuses?

Does the Church Need Artists Who Are Humble Scribes? Or Original Geniuses?

A hermeneutic that dictates that artists do as little original work as possible (rather than as much as they can), is one that respects the past and, paradoxically, allows for the development of steadily better work in the future.