The work of Catholic education, of taking every thought captive in obedience to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5), extends far beyond the walls of the classroom to the whole of one’s life and to every facet of reality. This is a daunting challenge in any era, but perhaps most especially in our secular age.
The Society for the Renewal of the Catholic Mind was created not only to support the St. Jerome Institute in its mission to help renew Catholic education, but to foster intellectual community and the renewal of a truly Catholic imagination beyond the classroom and the high school years. The events of the Society bring the Catholic imagination to bear on every facet of life, from philosophy, theology and the arts, to science, politics, and culture.
Open House
November 12th, 2-4pm
Meet St. Jerome Institute teachers,
learn about our curriculum, tour the
school, and rsvp for a demo class
with SJI faculty!
RSVP via the website
Save the Date:
Spring Gala
April 13th, 6-8:30pm
Old Ebbitt Grill, Washington DC
Also of interest to members
Study and the Spiritual Life:
Crucifixion of the Desk?
Sister Anna Wray, O.P. November 15th, 7-9pm
Catholic Information Center
A playful and broadly Thomistic
consideration of these questions:
what’s studying for? how does studying
work? how do I know that my attempts
at studying are working well? why does
God want me to study?
Co-Sponsored with the Thomistic
Institute. To register: cicdc.org
For more information about these events
Please contact Monica Evans (Guza)
mevans@stjeromeinstitute.org
Dr. Peter Ulrickson
Speaking Mathematically, Yesterday and Today
October 30th, 2023
What does it mean to talk mathematically?
How might students better learn to express themselves in scientific disciplines? We will explore these questions by considering geometry and algebra from the ancient world to the contemporary classroom.
The Spring Gala
“Catholic Culture Reborn”
May 20th, 2023
SJI Community Seminar
A conversation led by Dr. Michael Higgins on Wendell Berry’s “Faustian Economics”
January 12th
SJI Community Seminar
A conversation led by Peter Crawford on Robert Spaemann and Holger Zaborowski’s
“An Animal That Can Promise and Forgive”
October 25th
A conversation responding to the recent Vatican instruction,
The Identity of the Catholic School for a Culture of Dialogue
Physicist Dr. Merrill Roberts joins SJI founding board members Dr. Daniel Gibbons and Edward Trudeau for an interdisciplinary conversation on the questions:
What is ‘integral education’?
How can Catholic schools build a ‘culture of dialogue’?
How does the St. Jerome model of integrated studies embody the ideals of Catholic education emphasized in this recent teaching?
October 14th, 2022.
Carlo Lancellotti on Augusto Del Noce and The Problem of Atheism
A conversation between Prof. Carlo Lancellotti and Dr. Michael Hanby on the thought and works of Augusto Del Noce regarding the problem of atheism.
April 22nd, 2022.
Liberal Education & the Restless Soul
A conversation between St. Jerome Institute Headmaster Peter Crawford and Drs. Benjamin and Jenna Storey about their book,
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
February 11th, 2022
Aristotle on Self-love & Generosity
Seminar with Dr. Michael Higgins, SJI Humanities Teacher
Friday, February 4th, 2022
Adulting: How to Major in Life
with Dr. Anna Bonta Moreland & Dr. Thomas W. Smith
Friday, September 23rd, 2021
Handing Down, Not Holding Back: Tradition and Religious Art
by Artist Daniel Mitsui
Friday, March 26th, 2021
Liberal Education and Social Crisis
by Dr. Michael Hanby
Friday, December 4th, 2020