David Clayton

Catholic Education Foundation Seminar 2024: The Role of the Priest in Today’s Catholic School

Catholic Education Foundation Seminar 2024: The Role of the Priest in Today’s Catholic School

This event is inspiring, informative and uplifiting!   The Catholic Education Foundation – convinced by history and the present reality – believes that the viability of our Catholic schools is largely dependent on the support and involvement of our priests.

Sarum Use Vespers and Liturgical Art - Heaven on Earth

Sarum Use Vespers and Liturgical Art - Heaven on Earth

The Scala Foundation's mission is to transform American and, hence, Western culture through beauty in education and worship so that we are formed by grace to change society, one personal relationship at a time. To the degree that each of us contributes to this ideal, we will help create a culture of beauty that speaks of the Christian Faith and Western values. 

History, Salvation History and the Christian Story in Art

History, Salvation History and the Christian Story in Art

The image of Our Lady portrays her uniqueness in being the God Bearer, (‘Theotokos’ in Greek). On the other hand the unburning fire in Mary is the fire of Pentecost by which the Church was established and which is the divine life which is the gift of the Holy Spirit to all who are baptized into the Church.


Commissioning the Construction of a Portable Altar Appropriate for the TLM, by Fr. Andrew Marlborough

Commissioning the Construction of a Portable Altar Appropriate for the TLM, by Fr. Andrew Marlborough

What I really needed was a transportable altar that was still a traditional size but which could fold up to be transported in the back of a car. And this type of altar seemed not to be available. So, I decided to commission a prototype from a cabinet-maker.

A Vision for You Daily Journal: THE DAILY ROUTINE

A Vision for You Daily Journal: THE DAILY ROUTINE

The Vision for You is a process by which we discovered our true calling in life—what we call our ‘personal vocation’; and through which we discovered the Great Fact—that we have a choice in life: WE CAN CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY OR TO BE MISERABLE.

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bad for Sacred Art?

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bad for Sacred Art?

Art is as good as it looks. If there is more and better art by this measure as a result of AI then that is a good thing and I would be happy to see it. It seems similar to me to the situation that arose when photography was invented, or when musicians could start to use computers to create music. Perhaps in this new situation, we will give the person who asks Chat GBT the right questions, or even the programmer who created it the right questions the credit for being the artist!

Upgrade to SingtheOffice.com - Now Compliant with the Rubrics of the Daily Office of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

 Upgrade to SingtheOffice.com - Now Compliant with the Rubrics of the Daily Office of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

SingtheOffice.com has been upgraded so as to provide daily Offices from the English prayerbook tradition, fully pointed for Gregorian chant, and compliant with the rubrics of Divine Worship: Daily Office (Commonwealth Edition) of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Martin Earle of the Chichester Workshop of Liturgical Art Wins Major Award in US

Martin Earle of the Chichester Workshop of Liturgical Art Wins Major Award in US

This is the future of Catholic art! Margarita and I at the Scala Foundation have been energetically promoting the work of Martin Earle and Jim Blackstone at the Chichester Workshop.