CNLAP Celebrates its New Campus! ·
On Sunday, November 9th, 2008, friends, students, parents, catechists, and clergy joined the Newman community to celebrate the inauguration of its new campus in Otsego. All gathered to see how the historic facility, replete with golden wood moldings, archways, and cabinetry is being transformed into an academy and college household ideal for students and scholars. Welcoming Mr. Patrick Reilly, President of the Cardinal Newman Society of Manassas, Virginia, the evening began with a symposium in the spacious Humanities Seminar Room.
The scholars, parents, friends, and patrons in assembly first discussed how liberal arts learning is the study of wisdom through philosophy, theology, literature, and the classical disciplines of Latin and Greek. A liberal arts institution, like the proposed Newman College, is a place where through these studies the very best insights of Christian culture at the heart of Western civilization are kept alive. As Newman wrote in The Idea of a University, the liberal arts academy is in this way indispensable not only for the formation of the person individually but also for the building up of culture and the formation of a genuinely personalist society. Understanding this as the mission of the liberal arts academy is to understand how it is extremely necessary for our times.
The First Thomas More Lecture Fr. Joseph Fessio to present the Second Annual Thomas More Lecture this spring
