by ICLE Team | Jul 21, 2017 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
By Bishop James D. Conley Fifty years ago this month, in July of 1967, a group Catholic university presidents and administrators met together at a retreat center in Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin, in Wisconsin’s northern forest, along the border with the upper peninsula of...
by ICLE Team | Jun 30, 2017 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
The liberal arts allow us the freedom to become more fully human by sharing as fully as possible in that which makes us distinct, and the freedom to flourish through the reality of our nature, our humanity, and, yes, perhaps even our divinity… Why My Favorite Nun Was...
by ICLE Team | Jun 16, 2017 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
The following speech was given by Emma Lopez, a non-Catholic graduate of St. Augustine Academy, Ventura. Good afternoon and welcome teachers, graduates, parents, families, and friends to Saint Augustine Academy. What makes St. Augustine’s so unique is that it is more...
by ICLE Team | Jun 16, 2017 | Member School Content, Raphael's Room Blog
Valedictorian Liliane G. Watkins reflects on Romans 12:2 (“Do not be conformed to the world”) in the light of her experience at St. Thomas More Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thank You I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Luddy, our great benefactor...
by ICLE Team | Apr 20, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
This disturbing article about Netflix’s new Anne of Green Gables series by AnnaMussmann hit me close to home. I did not discover Lucy Montgomery’s works until I was an adult on the verge of marriage, but as a romantic I was deeply moved by the 1985 miniseries. I read...
