David Clayton

Is This An Image of Inclusion or Exclusion?

Is This An Image of Inclusion or Exclusion?

For the woke Marxist, such a painting would be intended to communicate to all people who see it, regardless of race, that Christ was not white. The goal is not to propogate the Faith, but to pit all minorities against people of European descent and cause conflict.

Full 2-Year Formation in Iconography At St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary - Open to Catholics

Full 2-Year Formation in Iconography At St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary - Open to Catholics

Predominantly online with residencies in either New York or Athens Dr George Kordis, renowned iconographer and former artist-in-residence at the Institute of Sacred Arts at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, which is in Yonkers, New York, is launching a two-year program in Byzantine iconography.

Access the Graced Imagination to Love and Serve the Lord

Access the Graced Imagination to Love and Serve the Lord

A Catholic education which involves the study of scripture and the praying of the Hours has its consummation in right worship and the fruit of this is a graced imagination that can inform, potentially, any human activity, sacred or mundane.

How is a Tradition Established? The Emerging Pattern of Christian Art in the Early Church

How is a Tradition Established? The Emerging Pattern of Christian Art in the Early Church

The universal elements of good Christian traditional art both reflect and in turn guide the natural desire of all men for supernatural fulfillment in the Common Good; while the local and temporal variations, which are more superficial but nevertheless also necessary, reflect more individual responses to that call as affected by local cultures. 

GOP Rep. Jim Banks offers bill to prescribe traditional architectural styles for federal buildings

GOP Rep. Jim Banks offers bill to prescribe traditional architectural styles for federal buildings

Architecture by the people, for the people, and of the people; rather than serving the interests of elites who have disdain for them and push Brutalism. Brutalism says: ‘You may not like it, but you’re wrong - we know what is good for you.’The ‘"Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act" declares "traditional and classical" architectural styles to be preferred for new Federal government buildings. This sets the tone for a wider American culture of beauty and superabundance.

Liturgical Art as Prophecy and Priesthood: Sacred Art and the Restoration of Human Dignity.

Liturgical Art as Prophecy and Priesthood: Sacred Art and the Restoration of Human Dignity.

To repeat our opening words, we act as we see. The first step is therefore education, not  education merely to swell our head knowledge, but to check, and if necessary, recalibrate,  our vision of the world and of our worship.

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.