Seton Magazine Catholic Homeschool Articles, Advice & Resources

by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian | G.K. Chesterton remarked that fifty percent of education is atmosphere.

United extended families with grandparents, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and cousins are spirited clans that bring a fullness of joy into the world.

In the ancient world, the Greek and Roman deities visited men in disguise, often appearing in the form of beggars or suppliants to see if mortals honored the sacred laws ...

by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian | A person who has died or is absent for long periods can live forever in memory; "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

It was the last week of St. Gregory’s Armenian School and Camp in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. On this Sunday in August, Father Luke Arakelian delivered one of the most memorable ...

by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian | “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Christ is indeed lavish in his praise.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | In one of the Father Brown detective mysteries, a select group of men known as “The Twelve True Fishermen,” meet once a year for an annual club dinner at the fashionable Vernon Hotel.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | Man’s play, however, is not limited to the realm of athletics or the Olympics. The playful mind sees old truths in fresh images.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | The imagination means the ability to be inventive, creative, and resourceful. However, the imagination can also mean...

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | The magnanimous man is large-hearted enough to take into consideration the humanity of his enemies.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | While God works miracles to heal, to feed, and to resurrect the dead, He does not perform wonders to amaze the crowds...

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | Science separated from God and the common good and removed from morality and wisdom presumes to be an end in itself rather than a means to an end.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | All human beings owe to one another the obligation of being pleasant and enjoyable company instead of being boring, or a burden...

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | So often in relationships arguments arise in which both parties are convinced that they deserve an apology for an offense...

by Mitchel Kalpakgian | Macbeth learns that daggers draw blood, and murder produces guilt. Man’s conscience and soul are real, alive, and active—especially at night.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | In Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Jimmy Burden, the narrator who relates the story of his life in Nebraska and the lives of the immigrant families who settled in the Midwest, recalls an illuminating moment in his study of Virgil at the University of Nebraska.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | The world’s great writers never cease to marvel at the world’s lack of common sense. Why does man, famously identified by Aristotle as a “rational animal” with an inborn desire for truth (“All men by nature desire to know,” he writes in the Metaphysics) demonstrate so many forms of folly that another great writer, Henry Fielding, remarked that a comic writer can never lack material for satire and laughter because “life everywhere furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.”

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | It is common to hear students dismiss certain fields of knowledge as useless to their profession and career. Why should students majoring in information technology, accounting, music, or biology study philosophy, literature, or Latin? Surely they will not need this knowledge in their specialized, technical fields of study.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | According to the worldly wise, the end justifies the means. If one achieves his ambitions, he need not be scrupulous or squeamish for doing what most people do—even if they are dishonest.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | The custom of visiting on Sundays and holidays, once a natural part of a human life, has waned in the last fifty years. Visitors feel the obligation to call in advance and ask permission lest they impose or inconvenience their hosts. Hosts who receive visitors sense the need to have ample provisions...